Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would naturally consider sympathetically any invitation to take part in clinical trials requiring ingestion of whisky for medicinal purposes . |
| 2 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 3 | During an era which Milton described as one of ‘ sects and schisms ’ , Baxter promoted the cause of unity between true believers . |
| 4 | Franco was quick to exploit the lack of unity in Allied attitudes to Spain , accusing the United States of intransigence and ingratitude and stating defiantly that Spain would not curtail its aid to Germany under Allied duress . |
| 5 | It is a matter of scale ; of working with like-minded , self-employed farmers and craftsmen rather than of subservience to faceless officials and giant firms . |
| 6 | Now we have GCSE , which devolves somewhat the choice of topics and the manner and timing of assessment to individual schools , and shifts the balance of that assessment from the retention of content to the mastery of certain identifiable skills — though in practice how extensive a shift this has been remains open to question . |
| 7 | In an internal reorganisation Jim Kennedy has moved from the National Certificate Unit to take charge of assessment of Advanced Courses . |
| 8 | to participate in discussions with colleges on devolution of assessment of single-college courses . |
| 9 | It is clear that practitioners need a framework to help them manage this process , to produce a degree of consistency of purpose , scope , and content of assessment across different practitioners , whilst also enabling the assessment process to be adapted flexibly to individual people and their circumstances . |
| 10 | The idea of decentralization to departmental units of accountable management not only undermines the hierarchical authority structure traditionally used in bureaucracies to enforce equitable application of departmental rules ( see p. 26 ) , but its underlying aim , as Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 157 ) warn , ‘ may be to downgrade … the search for fairness and equity of treatment … since such practices may not be value for money ’ , In the private sector , where equity is less important ( and in some cases absent ) , the search for value for money conflicts with no particular value systems , but in the public sector it does . |
| 11 | This is , of course , an old and central dilemma as well as a major reason for the general acceptance of decentralization in large businesses in the last 40 years . |
| 12 | the care given to the development of access courses and to the monitoring of progress of non-traditional entrants . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , we have made a lot of progress in recent years , and as I shall describe , there are some grounds for cautious optimism that we may see a complete theory within the lifetime of some of those reading these pages . |
| 14 | In addition , more information needs to be collected on the neurological status of early treated children from infancy onwards , and programmes of neuropsychological and neurophysiological assessment and brain imaging need to be developed to provide more precise measures of progress in individual subjects . |
| 15 | Support for the Scottish farming industry assurance scheme , FASL , however , showed clear signs of dwindling fast with many former strong supporters in the Aberdeen and Kincardine ranks deploring the recent resignation from the beef committee and the apparent lack of progress in attracting members . |
| 16 | Lack of progress regarding German hostages and Israeli POWs |
| 17 | Now you can get models to suit every size , shape and style of kitchen from separate hobs and ovens , to catering size free-standing models and makes that can be slid or dropped into your work run or counter top for maximum sleekness . |
| 18 | MPs should be subject to a process of re-selection between general elections . |
| 19 | Early development is likely to be uneven because of differentiation in initial conditions . |
| 20 | They lie in the Archaean high-Al TTD and adakite field ( Fig. 2 ) , consistent with an origin as partial melts of amphibolite with different proportions of garnet . |
| 21 | Well there 's a whole range of kind of wacky ideas that we 'll be working on . |
| 22 | Some residents use more than one type of support at different times , depending on how they are feeling . |
| 23 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 24 | Second , it appears that the parent-child relationship is the second port of call , with children being a major source of support for elderly parents and ( less commonly in numerical terms ) parents being the principal supporters of adult handicapped children . |
| 25 | There is no requirement in the UK for colleges to provide any sort of support for deaf students . |
| 26 | Lack of support for mainstream teachers is not only reflected through inadequate training . |
| 27 | Other evidence of the amorphous state of the electorate in 1980 was to be found in poll data revealing rapidly shifting tides of support for various candidates . |
| 28 | Numbers indicate the level of support for individual nodes on the tree based on 100 bootstrapped ( Branch and Bound ) runs . |
| 29 | In the United Kingdom , as elsewhere , continuity of support for disabled individuals or their families through transition is rarely available . |
| 30 | It dealt a stunning blow to an international order based on the exploitation of man by man and provided a powerful base of support for progressive movements across the world . |