Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 2 | The greater use of charges and the use of parental contributions to purchase quite basic school equipment discriminates against poor children and schools in poor areas . |
| 3 | Even though the custom of parental arrangement seems so strange , so disaster prone , to them it is the only way . |
| 4 | Miss Powers , a tall thin woman of indeterminate age shuffled reluctantly into the room . |
| 5 | The result was that the boundaries of advanced courses expanded well beyond the traditional areas of science , technology and business studies . |
| 6 | Second , the development of advanced capitalism produced both a large oligopolistic business sector and a large oligopolistic labour union movement . |
| 7 | The professional , however , can be defined as a person who practises theory or theoretizes practice ; indeed , the very concept of professional expertise implies both knowledge and use . |
| 8 | The Library Association 's Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct contain much that is pertinent to the question of censorship and access of information , as one might expect . |
| 9 | In a similar way , although the CIB 's rules of professional conduct have previously required members to keep themselves informed of ‘ new thought and development ’ in building , CPD becomes ‘ obligatory ’ for them this year . |
| 10 | It is better to regard the system of county government as a body of professional people placed together in a large office at County Hall , who can call upon the representatives from all places throughout the area which they administer . |
| 11 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 12 | However , the culture of professional debate provides both the means and the incentives for discovering mistakes and strong deterrents to making them . |
| 13 | Some remarks made at the time by the defence correspondent of a major London weekly are representative of a good deal of professional opinion expressed both then and since . |
| 14 | In her letter of 21 August , Ms Greengross referred to the 1989 Family Expenditure Survey which found that 25% of retired people living alone mainly dependent on the state pension do not have a telephone and linked this ‘ poor level of penetration among people who need a telephone most … to the policy of increasing rental and connection charges to the maximum permitted by the retail price index ( RPI ) + 2% price cap , while targeting businesses and heavy residential users for international call rate reductions and volume discounts ’ . |
| 15 | The 1890s were probably the most remarkable decade in British deaf history — no other decade with the possible exception of the 1980s saw the social status of deaf people held so high in public esteem . |
| 16 | His firm commitment to flexibilIty in the education of deaf people contributed significantly to the surging emancipation of deaf children everywhere from the yoke of generations of denial . |
| 17 | This is particularly the case for reasoning , where the group of deaf people performs much less well than hearing groups . |
| 18 | With more sophisticated design procedures under CAD , the balance of costs is clearly being shifted from manufacture to design and it becomes more important for cost accountants to use their cost analysis at the design phase ( i.e. the ex ante use of activity-based principles discussed earlier ) . |
| 19 | Lord Reid 's interpretation of want and excess of jurisdiction is in fact reflective of the theory of extensive review considered above . |
| 20 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they also became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 21 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 22 | It is a document about the Labour party 's policy attitudes and it rightly points out that more than half of Labour Members have either recently belonged to or still belong to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 23 | I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation . |
| 24 | Bales of goods thumped from even blacker openings in the walls into barges at landing stages , and tiers of narrow windows rose upwards with all the hopefulness of blinded eyes seeking light . |
| 25 | However once one goes outside the immediate hierarchy of industrial relationships the symbolic implication of monetary payments becomes much more difficult to decipher . |
| 26 | Its essential implication is that the coefficient linking the deviation of output from its natural rate to the unpredictable component of monetary growth depends negatively on the variance of unpredictable monetary growth . |
| 27 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 28 | The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals . |
| 29 | From the eleventh century on , the old basis of feudal knighthood became increasingly artificial ; and it is a strange irony that the Norman kings , all of whom relied in large measure on money to recruit their armies , should have introduced the most complete feudal structure of the old kind into England . |
| 30 | Rather , our results imply that at the preheadfold time of treatment ( 7.5d.p.c. ) , a certain degree of regional variation has already been specified at the level of rhombomere pairs ; retinoic acid is unable to override the specification choice of an odd- or even-numbered character . |