Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they had led to was the squalor and isolation of this room they kept her in , and the one beyond , and the yard outside they sometimes let her walk in , and the empty hillside , and the whitewashed wall of the barn against which she had stood to be photographed , clutching the International Herald Tribune for 4 September . |
| 2 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 3 | But of these failures in the experiment of agricultural society we know next to nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying . |
| 5 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Yeah , that 's why a , that 's all it is you see , , there 's no mention of any advice you or whatever , she said she , just do n't see any point of anybody else buying cheaper , somebody hit the the thing in the middle of the island there , smashed all the glass one of these things there 's all got smashed , |
| 7 | Julie Dixon , who was eighteen at the time of the murder , has been awarded an undisclosed sum by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for the loss of parental support she suffered . |
| 8 | The loss of this figure he valued at £5,000 , allowing for contingencies . |
| 9 | A good suggestion might be , in the past this child has suffered a loss of some figure it was dependent on , and has compensated by becoming highly independent . |
| 10 | Because just by that simple act of handing over your money at the checkout and receiving the goods in exchange , just by doing that , you have entered into a contract with the shop and as , as a result of that contract you 've got the three rights which the consumer advisor mentioned on the tape . |
| 11 | The Prince was more than keen to help ; as a result of that approach he convened a meeting , known as the Windsor Conference , which is still widely regarded as one of the most significant advances ever made in race relations . |
| 12 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 13 | As a result of such consultation it is planned that over the period 1989–90 to 1999–2000 there should be an increase in total ( FTE ) graduate numbers of around 700 ( home/EC and overseas ) , a significant proportion of which has already been achieved ; this would allow room for undergraduates to increase by 1,300 and for the overall growth of the University to be contained within the broad policy approved by Congregation of 1 per cent a year to the end of the decade . |
| 14 | And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot . |
| 15 | That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies . |
| 16 | As a result of this work it could be declared that ‘ All the drugs now used against malaria were found by using experimental laboratory infections : the design of the tests employed to find them , or to uncover their particular attributes and imperfections , was based on knowledge of the life cycle ’ . |
| 17 | As a result of this change I was ‘ promoted ’ chairman and virtually cut off from any effective direction of the company . |
| 18 | As a result of this programme I wish to ask two questions ; |
| 19 | As a result of this openness it is known that the Secretary of State chose to modify the Mathematics Working Party 's recommendations , particularly in the area of ‘ applied mathematics ’ , that consultation revealed that most of those consulted preferred the stance that the working party had adopted , that the Curriculum Council nevertheless made recommendations which accorded with the Secretary of State 's view and that their recommendations were , not surprisingly , accepted . |
| 20 | For example , in the study of forward paddling we could look at slalom and polo as both classes of boat are short and directionally unstable , like our own . |
| 21 | It has suggested that in the study of social policy it is important to give attention to implementation problems that arise directly from the characteristics of policy , but to recognize also that there is a complicated interrelationship between these and a range of inter- and intra-organizational factors . |
| 22 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 23 | In the study of colorectal cancer we are fortunate that there exists both a familial form of the disease and a precursor lesion , namely the adenomatous polyp . |
| 24 | It is precisely because human beings can " change their minds " and " tell lies " that if you try to apply the methods of orthodox science to the study of human behaviour you will nearly always get it wrong . |
| 25 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 26 | For the mayor of that city it is less terrible but still a serious problem . |
| 27 | The class was not giving the kind of demonstration of good behaviour she would have liked . |
| 28 | We stop breathing when we are frightened — in sudden fear of any kind we hold our breath . |
| 29 | Once you fall into the rhythm of off-piste powder it is intoxicating . |
| 30 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |