Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The risks of such a procedure would be far too high . |
| 2 | In the first session all those gathered were asked to identify a ‘ John the Baptist ’ in their own life ( i.e. someone who had helped Prepare the Way of the Lord for them ) and also to describe the characteristics of such a person . |
| 3 | Wordsworth regarded the Cumberland of his childhood as possessing some of the Rousseauesque characteristics of such a society : |
| 4 | Recognising the constraints , it is still important for institutions involved in training personnel who will have an educational role in rural areas to emphasise the potential which the rural environment has in educational terms and to understand the social and cultural characteristics of such an environment . |
| 5 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |
| 6 | Using Newton 's typology , the New Urban Left councillor showed some of the characteristics of both the policy advocates and the policy spokesman . |
| 7 | This is termed ego-strengthening in hypnosis and several sessions of such a therapy can be very useful in helping the patient to overcome emotional , mental or even , possibly , spiritual problems . |
| 8 | Indicators of such a commitment would be : |
| 9 | A former Russian ambassador in London complained in 1803 that it had " more people than the offices of all the secretaries of state in Europe combined " . |
| 10 | Among the items which therefore never saw light of day was one in which I suggested that there were individual candidates of all the parties in different parts of the country whom one might be tempted to vote for on purely personal grounds . |
| 11 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 12 | I obtained the names and addresses of all the next-of-kin . |
| 13 | This logical identifier has to uniquely identify the record , and its actual address can also be obtained by looking up a table containing the addresses of all the identifiers . |
| 14 | Any withdrawals or xerox applications on books and magazines that might worry us , and we 'll have a straight printout of the names and addresses of all the applicants . |
| 15 | The human has the illusion that the file is a single , orderly array , only because the computer is careful to keep records ‘ pointing ’ to the addresses of all the fragments dotted around . |
| 16 | A unique reference tool it shows clearly the shapes and styles of all the items included and illustrates the terms used to describe them . |
| 17 | Currently , the Commission is developing its proposals for development and cohesion , and it would have been very nice to have seen this work unfolding within the context of an informed and radical debate , pushed forward by the socialist parties of all the member states . |
| 18 | The strengths of such a definition are as follows . |
| 19 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 20 | Every night in the theatre she went high in the air on her swing , over the heads of all the people . |
| 21 | Luxuriating in the public attentions of such a suitor , she had drawn it out too much , perhaps , so that the final acceptance had come after the optimum moment . |
| 22 | The Knoyle family were Roman Catholic , and strong supporters of first the Cavalier and then the Jacobite causes . |
| 23 | That NT is in the gameplan is not disputed by Sun , though Silvestri admits only to talks with Microsoft about the business parameters of such a venture — other flavours of Unix could even feature over time . |
| 24 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 25 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 26 | Watching television had a much smaller effect and , like age , it had a positive effect upon images of all the parties and all the leaders . |
| 27 | She must also show the relationships of such a scale to the claims for detachment made within particular cultural conventions . |
| 28 | But the fact remains that , even if the dominant is taken as the starting-point , a description of the relationships of all the components of a text would be potentially endless . |
| 29 | In the trite words of many a wedding speech , they have gained a son or daughter . |
| 30 | They knew the words of all the songs , the plots of every story , the intricacies of every movement and rhythm . |