Example sentences of "[adj] of [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’
2 To this extent it is bound by market forces and its operations are broadly equivalent to and supportive of private capital 's interventions .
3 2.13 Two long concentric cylinders of radii a and b are separated by a dielectric of relative permittivity Er .
4 So religion helps us also to be tolerant of other people 's beliefs .
5 What we got was the jelly-like wobbling of Western pop 's fulsome , milky tit in the face of the starving .
6 Nor can it be contended that this harsh judgement on Socrates was in any way typical of Athenian democracy 's attitudes towards its critics or even its enemies .
7 Events or developments that take place around the 12th and 16th could leave you deflated and suspicious of other people 's motives .
8 Winter of Discontent boxes Callaghan in , people of Britain get so sick of futile Nostalgie de la Blitz privations that they vote in Thatcher , 4 May .
9 One can get very sick of other people 's jaded palates . ’
10 Already by 1890 there had been a big improvement in the relations of the Papacy with governments conscious of Roman Catholicism 's contribution to social order in a time of revolutionary fears .
11 Cleaners are the most essential , the most unseen , apparently the least powerful of modern capitalism 's new working class .
12 The MPs had become increasingly sceptical of British Rail 's demand that the bill go ahead before BR and Eurorail , the private-sector consortium , decide on the last section of the tunnel route .
13 Great Aunt Emily was the only person who had remembered her childhood birthdays , sending parcels from Cornwall full of exquisite doll 's clothes made with her own hands of which Iskandara had been suitably scornful .
14 For the prose artist the world is full of other people 's words , among which he must orient himself , and whose speech characteristics he must be able to perceive with a very keen ear .
15 The room was full of other people 's unknown lives .
16 Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment .
17 He called them white inseficus full of dead mens ' bones , but looking nice on the outside .
18 In the temple he launched another violent attack , punctuated with the ritual curse , seven times repeated , ‘ Woe unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! ’ , including this devastating metaphor : ‘ for ye are like unto whited sepulchres , which indeed appear beautiful outward , but are within full of dead men 's bones , and of all uncleanness ’ .
19 Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking .
20 The Director General of Fair Trading 's existing powers should be sufficient to prevent that happening here .
21 The valuation of high cultural works of art , which sees possibilities of critique only in an aesthetic realm that is separate from the social , is constitutive of the modernist aesthetic of critical theory 's ‘ mainstream ’ .
22 Social workers are highly critical of other professions ' seeming unaccountability , most notably doctors and police officers , but are notoriously unwilling to look at their own .
23 Hooks was critical of Irish rugby 's coaching approach down the years — including his own contributions in the general condemnation .
24 These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research .
25 Covering South America , Central America and the Caribbean , the Middle East and Africa , the International region is the most widely dispersed and varied of United Distillers ' regions .
26 It was in 1989 that I first became aware of Scandinavian racing 's revolutionary change regarding use of the whip when profiling their four-times champion jump jockey , Tom Luhnenschloss .
27 It 's always difficult to be aware of other people 's pain when we are hurt ourselves .
28 being aware of other people 's behaviour and influencing it .
29 They become more aware of other people 's babies , wanting to hold and touch them .
30 Bus drivers should become more aware of vulnerable persons ' needs .
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