Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 2 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 3 | Eurosterling bonds were first issued in 1972 ; they have all the characteristics of eurobonds rather than those of domestic or bulldog bonds , and the main issuers have been UK building societies , seeking long-term funds to finance their home loans . |
| 4 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 5 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 6 | They will form all sorts of categories too and the worst thing you can do in sa in er negotiating advertising er Richard is to prejudge anybody |
| 7 | Dr Barsamian stresses , however , the importance of a correct understanding of such concepts and methods of analysis so as to avoid unrealistic expectations about their capabilities by non-experts . |
| 8 | On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid . |
| 9 | She 's one of the ‘ one partner for life ’ brigade , man and wife in the eyes of God forever and ever a-bloody-men . |
| 10 | The courts will normally refuse to allow claims of confidentiality in respect of the names and addresses of employees so as to prevent offers of other employment being made to them by departing staff ( see Baker v Gibbons [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 693 and Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 ) . |
| 11 | Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships . |
| 12 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 13 | Critics of the government 's drive for efficiency claim that it is motivated more by considerations of cost rather than of value for money or quality of service provided . |
| 14 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 15 | As in America , boxing overwhelmingly dominated the attentions of blacks simply because it was the sport in which other blacks had been allowed to compete and they had done so with extremely conspicuous success . |
| 16 | Pollution control work , then , is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression . |
| 17 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 18 | For navigation in the hyper-medium , it is important to be able to identify uniquely individual units of text so that cross-references can be resolved . |
| 19 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 20 | I am , however , suggesting that many significant economies of scale have been realised at the level of the large enterprise comprising a number of units of production rather than at plant , or operating unit , level . |
| 21 | Obviously , not all wines or beers have the same alcohol content , and a half pint of an extra strength lager , of 6% alcohol , for example , will equal 2 units of alcohol rather than 1 unit . |
| 22 | The horizontal axis is now calibrated in units of beta rather than the standard deviation of expected returns . |
| 23 | The detection of insider dealing has increased ( although the conviction rate is still poor ) , and this is likely to be a reflection of better channels of detection rather than any upsurge in the problem as previously it was not a criminal offence ( and in some circles was regarded as a perk of the job ) . |
| 24 | Previously , from the time of the late Roman emperors to the late Middle Ages , coins had borne representations of rulers , but these were only generic images of royalty rather than individual portraits . |
| 25 | Johnson considered as many aspects of life here as he could possibly think of , or so it seems : and Boswell recorded Johnson with similar energy . |
| 26 | Applying the principles of the 12 Steps in all aspects of life so that they become a natural way of life and provide the capacity to live happily and confidently without the need for mood-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 27 | Roel Pieper says there 's room for both efforts , with USL more interested in the fault-tolerance and distributed computing aspects of microkernels rather than OSF 's emphasis on multiple personalities , especially attractive to OSF partners with numerous ‘ legacy ’ operating systems . |
| 28 | On a less arrogant interpretation , he seems to be making the reasonable point that the appreciative stance is less likely to overlook both positive and negative aspects of deviance simply because it is more open to the acceptance of both possibilities . |
| 29 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 30 | The percentage of the population which attends live performances of music more than very occasionally is very small . |