Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 2 | We are in some kind of indoor builder 's yard : bags of cement stacked against one wall , assorted timber against the other , and a concrete mixer , lathe , two power saws , and a battered van that looks welded to the floor . |
| 3 | He went out with Georgina , daughter of retired Lloyds ' underwriter Jack Gore , for three or four years . |
| 4 | He wants to find ways of stabilising Europe 's currency markets . |
| 5 | We 'll follow two of these chains in a sort of volcanic Cook 's tour since they are of fundamental importance to our story , and will crop up repeatedly throughout the rest of the text . |
| 6 | When we apply these views to early childhood we begin to have a clearer picture of deaf children 's future . |
| 7 | Gustason 's ( 1983 ) findings on positive views of ASL by teachers is augmented by Stewart 's ( 1983 ) finding of attitudinal change towards ASL being part of deaf children 's bilingualism . |
| 8 | The key is the understanding of deaf children 's processing of their own language , and it is this which requires our immediate and continued attention . |
| 9 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 10 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 11 | PTE grants in fact provide a hefty chunk of Regional Railways ' revenue , and within each area the executive can stipulate exactly the services it wants . |
| 12 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 13 | This puts in perspective the Department of Economic Development 's approach to community economic development , which has to date been one of employing outside consultants without sufficient consideration for the need of local input . |
| 14 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector at the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards branch , said he welcomed the new laws . |
| 15 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector with the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards Branch , said : ‘ The Order allows for the selling price to be indicated on the goods themselves , a ticket or notice close to the goods or grouped together with other prices on a list close to the goods to which it refers . |
| 16 | Our review also attempted to discern any correlation between RP and individual histological features , primarily those considered to be indicators of classic Crohn 's disease , but we found no such associations . |
| 17 | It should be emphasised that even the five cases classified pathologically as Group E were not histologically compelling examples of classic Crohn 's disease apart from the presence of typical granulomata . |
| 18 | Then they re-peopled the village , opening up the doors and window vents of all the cottages , and letting the moorland winds blow through , raising up spectres of dust and shrouds of dislodged spider 's web . |
| 19 | A mortgage valuation may be considered sufficient for a lending institution able to spread the risk across many loans , and which also has the benefit of the security of each borrower 's income as well as the property . |
| 20 | The decision to offer a place is not an easy one and it is not made without very careful consideration of each candidate 's proposal . |
| 21 | This is an independent guarantee of each condom 's quality . |
| 22 | Accommodation theory takes a range of variation as a given part of each speaker 's competence ; it seeks to relate some or all of this variation to the relationship between particular interlocutors . |
| 23 | This provides a measure of each speaker 's variability with respect to the particular variants under consideration , but provides no clue as to why the speaker might have used the variant that he/she did in any particular case . |
| 24 | Furthermore , this " essence " needs to be capable of being infinitely adaptable according to the uniqueness of each person 's experience and needs and interests . |
| 25 | Theirs was a witnessed to faith in ‘ the importance of the spiritual , the sanctity of marriage , respect for human life , appreciation of each person 's dignity , justice for all , fair sharing of resources , and the need to think of others . |
| 26 | The strict mathematical equality of each person 's vote with all others conceals the fact that in such circumstances some votes carry no weight or impact at all . |
| 27 | They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system . |
| 28 | Yet we have trained generations of teachers who think drama is just this , that it is an expression of each child 's ego , so that a bewildered teacher feels a responsibility not towards what is being created by a group of thirty , but towards thirty individual creations . |
| 29 | A PERSONAL RECORD OF EACH CHILD 'S ACHIEVEMENT |
| 30 | The celebration of each child 's birthday in school can involve other ideas than ‘ how old am I ? ’ which is explored in chapter 11 The Passage of Time . |