Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe and Newton ( 1984 ) , for example , set out to identify differences between the spending patterns of urban councils ( county boroughs ) in the 1960s on the basis of party political control , and by the use of extensive statistical manipulation they succeeded in doing so . |
| 2 | It will , I think , be apparent from what I have said that even in the case of normal medical treatment I can not accept Mr. Munby 's proposition that the child 's decision should determine the matter . |
| 3 | During moments of acute royal weakness they tried to re-establish their influence , but as a political force they were clearly in decline . |
| 4 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 5 | ‘ What a bunch of nauseating little warts you are . ’ |
| 6 | After passing through a number of German private collections it was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1986 . |
| 7 | James Serpell 's dog owners reported increases in the amount of daily physical exercise they took after acquiring dogs . |
| 8 | Fish , meat and cheese pastes do not combine successfully with vol-au-vent cases , pastry or biscuits , but in sandwiches or spread on fingers of coarse brown bread they will be greeted as a blessed change from sticky canapes and messy dips . |
| 9 | At this range the flaws that reduced him to humanity , and a fairly limited humanity at that , were plain to be seen : the stubble of coarse reddish beard he had n't bothered to shave , the roughness of his weathered skin over the immaculate but brutal bones , the inlaid indifference of the blue eyes . |
| 10 | After looking at various books and pictures of English rural life they decide what jobs they will have in this community — fishing , farming , milling , etc . |
| 11 | The largest collection is of four works in a manuscript of the British Library famous , amongst other things , for a collection of English medieval lyrics it contains , British Library MS Harley 2253 ( a facsimile of this manuscript has been published by the Early English Text Society , Original Series no.255 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ And may I suggest that this is precisely the kind of overheated sensational attitude I would most strongly deplore . |
| 13 | Try to do it on the cheap , however , and you could get lumbered with a lot of high priced product you simply do n't know how to shift . |
| 14 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't have the sort of upbeat good humour you need to compete for jobs . |
| 16 | I know the sort of devious little things you get up to . |
| 17 | They also follow up leads generated by local branches of the Alliance and Leicester who are restricted in terms of the range of Scottish Amicable products they can sell . |
| 18 | When he bent that famous craggy face and strong jaw down from its natural elevation to the level of ordinary human beings it was not to advance any opinions or tell any anecdotes of his own . |
| 19 | But it was er you know , it was a lot of wee thriving community you know , ju just wee individual shops you know , but they were nearly all There was an awful lot of Jews that you know , that what you 'd term the Gorbels that 's I could n't get the name , the Gorbels area . |
| 20 | As the expression of different xenobiotic metabolising enzymes may take part in both the development of colonic neoplasia and drug resistance of established colonic carcinomas we have investigated the expression of cytochromes P450 1A and 3A , epoxide hydrolase , and glutathione S-transferases α , µ , and π in normal colon , colonic adenomas , and adenocarcinoma of the colon . |
| 21 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 22 | In studies of contemporary Irish politics he is variously described as a broker , an intermediary , an ombudsman , a patron , an errand-boy , an intercessor , an adviser , an advocate , a consumer representative and a welfare officer . |
| 23 | So so erm , basic idea about crying is this kind of arms race situation , which offspring have been selected to amplify the signal , because it promotes their reproductive success , to get every little bit of extra parental investment we can for themselves . |
| 24 | Okay so just from that definition of simple harmonic motion we 've got acceleration equal to minus K X. |
| 25 | So definition of simple harmonic motion you find anything that 's moving so that the acceleration is always measured the opposite way |
| 26 | In regard to the wealth of individual secular priests we are on firmer ground . |
| 27 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 28 | The growing concern for a unified approach meant that when the Seebohm Committee concluded its review of personal social services it recommended the creation of a single local authority welfare department . |
| 29 | He looked scared , not so much , Owen judged , because he was in the hands of the police but rather because he was in different surroundings from those he was used to , the modern , built-up , Europeanized part of the city and not the warren of tiny mediaeval streets he normally inhabited . |
| 30 | On the basis of absolute moral standards we will build a new society . |