Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then taught in a higher elementary school , but became critical of the local Bolsheviks ' lack of progress in educational and social affairs . |
| 2 | Birthdays from January 8-11 are in the front line of change in 1993 and it may be that no matter how you try to reach out and claim what you want , it eludes you — for now . |
| 3 | As a result , the small British army had a high degree of expertise in irregular and colonial warfare , could be deployed easily over great distances by sea , and had a rank-and-file which was possibly better trained than that of any other great power . |
| 4 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 5 | The course is of relevance to those concerned with the gender dimension of inequality in Western and Third World societies . |
| 6 | Philip Bolam , as chairman of Plunkett Foundation for Co-operative Studies , joined 340 others in Budapest to discuss the restructuring of Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe and the report makes enlightening reading . |
| 7 | Sir Charles Frank came to the Department of Physics in 1946 and worked there until his retirement in 1976 . |
| 8 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 9 | May Sinclair was elected to the Royal Society of Literature in 1916 and the Aristotelian Society in 1917 . |
| 10 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 11 | Of course in one or two places difficulties will arise , but the route will pass through areas which will benefit environmentally . |
| 12 | First used in 1949 , the system was modified in the light of experience in 1953 and 1956 . |
| 13 | Planning and management , if the political and economic will is there to implement them , can effect sustainable recreation and tourism which is essential if such industries are to continue as a source of income in developed and developing countries . |
| 14 | Sherwood 's timely expansion into lace and fashion 's latest accessory — stretch lace — with the acquisitons of Birkin in 1987 and Dentex two years later , makes it Europe 's largest lace maker . |
| 15 | In general , even less attention is paid to this aspect of provision in academic and special libraries . |
| 16 | Todorov 's Grammaire du Décaméron , despite the reference to a particular text in the title , deals primarily with ‘ the structure of narrative in general and not with that of one book ’ ( 1969 : 10 ) . |
| 17 | The years of abundance in America began in 1950 with the defence expenditure triggered off by the Korean War , and the boom continued with only a hiccup or two of recession in 1954 and 1958 . |
| 18 | His Isle of Purbeck Railway succeeded in getting an Act of Parliament in 1863 but came to nothing in face of the local hostility and opposition from landowners . |
| 19 | It is an angry , retrospective account of the trip to Aden which coincides more accurately with Nizan 's highly militant frame of mind in 1930 and 1931 , than it does with the Nizan of 1926 and 1927 groping his way slowly towards the solution of political action . |
| 20 | economic about Taiwan and there 's a great deal of irony in this because you know here you are in the nineteen fifties in China rich peasant economy which is accepting and preserving inequalities |
| 21 | In the 1970s , Henderson argued , Britain was clearly not in the front rank , even as a European power , with its declining economy and lack of investment in managerial and engineering resources . |
| 22 | An instrument of torture in all but the most capable of hands , the bass guitar rack has been lagging behind in the preamp/power amp technology already enjoyed by guitarists the world over . |
| 23 | Trade unionists can not condone the use of violence in this or any industrial dispute situation . |
| 24 | When Paris approved a nuclear plant near the town of Golfech in 1981 and Golfech refused , the socialist — ( read Paris ) — dominated regional council overturned the refusal . |
| 25 | It would seem , then , that de la Broquière 's statement not only provides good evidence of the existence of the office of Mufti in 836/1433 but also suggests that the Mufti was by then recognizably the chief representative of the spiritual authority of the Seriat , the chief representative of the religious aspect of the state . |
| 26 | For the Conservative Government to maintain any level of legitimation in ideological or cultural spheres , they have had to construct a definition of common sense which reinforces their definition of the social order . |
| 27 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 28 | The Danish-born Sir Andrew Ogard , who served in France and was knighted at the Battle of Verneuil , where incidentally Fastolf was promoted banneret , received letters of denization in 1433 and held offices in France worth £1,000 annually . |
| 29 | They are well aware that the status of the military bases leased by the United States on Greek territory has been a bone of contention in Greek-American and Greek-NATO relations in the 1980s . |
| 30 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |