Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress should be asked to continue economic and military aid with the objective of achieving a well-trained , efficient army of 65,000 men , including air detachments adequate for maintaining political order inside South Korea , a coastguard of 4,000 men , and a police force of 35,000 possessing small arms and ammunition . |
| 2 | English people , relying as they do on the creation of an invisible but supposedly recognizable barrier of reserve to ensure personal privacy in public places , have always been particularly appreciative of this form of tact . |
| 3 | The Local Government Planning Act of 1980 introduced major changes in the structure of the rate support grant , as follows : |
| 4 | The disk is covered by a dense coating of simple rods and trifid and bifid spinelets which are sometimes reduced resembling small granules , the proportions of each varies some specimens having nearly all rods . |
| 5 | The Secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting such minutes to be produced , and read and passed at each sederunt . |
| 6 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
| 7 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
| 8 | On top of each put little pieces of anchovy fillet ( or anchovy paste squeezed from a tube ) and/or halved , stoned black olives . |
| 9 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
| 10 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 11 | The Scottish Science Reference Library will have a staff of 32 to give rapid access to the library 's own collection of books and to computerised databases all over the world . |
| 12 | We have already described three ultrastructural patterns of contact between Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) and gastric epithelium : ( 1 ) H pylori in the mucus layer resting on the short microvilli of normal looking epithelial cells ; ( 2 ) H pylori at intercellular junctions ; ( 3 ) H pylori adherent at specific junction zones directly or with filamentous appendages anchoring the organisms to an epithelial surface , which has fewer microvilli and mucoid granules in the absence of a mucus layer . |
| 13 | On top of that come huge sums of cheap credit to enterprises which must be reduced if inflation is to be controlled . |
| 14 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 15 | In 3 games , Town have lost 2 and drawn one and on top of that had two players sent-off on Saturday . |
| 16 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 17 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 18 | From his vast knowledge of that swirling urban society in London and New York it was the type that could be swept up and then knocked back down that Chaplin chose to express the emotions of a whole era . |
| 19 | So you create a range name in the from file that covers a range of that say ten cells . |
| 20 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 21 | No 4472's insurance certificate granted her a 10-year ticket for her boiler ( ratified with an MOT style test every six months ) but only seven years of that covers main line running . |
| 22 | But er the likes of that See that mahogany band round there . |
| 23 | But a small region within the DNA-binding domain of DP-1 has significant similarity to an analogous region in the DNA-binding domain of E2F-1 . |
| 24 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 25 | They provided education , free education , free health services erm one of the modern communication system and ports erm and they ensure job for every Kuwaiti , so you will not find an unemployed Kuwaiti , as soon as he is able to do one job or another the Government provided the training for a large number of Kuwaiti to provide technical works . |
| 26 | Input-specificity is explained by the need for the presynaptic terminal to provide a sufficient concentration of L-glutamate to activate adequate numbers of NMDA receptors . |
| 27 | It is from the chaos of spontaneous analogizing that creativity breaks into the ordered by closed realm of analytic thinking . |
| 28 | ‘ Because the merchant thought it was a waste of light to have both eyes open ; why not save the light the way you save money ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The Portuguese coach , Carlos Quieroz , may now think his side have to beat Scotland in the Stadium of Light to have any prospect of qualification , ’ said Brown . |
| 30 | However , Campell 's authoritative London Tradesman of 1747 suggests fourteen hours for breeches makers , carpet weavers , harness makers , coopers , engravers , saddlers , stocking knitters , wool combers and shoe makers . |