Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through a local human rights group , to whom copies of appeals had been sent , he got hold of photocopies of all the letters from around the world that had been written on his behalf . |
| 2 | ‘ When making weft cloth , before starting to weave the weaver needs a supply of cops of all the colours required in the carpet . |
| 3 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 4 | Treaty on the free movement of persons cover only the pursuit of effective and genuine activities , to the exclusion of activities on such a small scale as to be regarded as purely marginal and ancillary . |
| 5 | The introduction of bells into all the steeples of Christendom had been an early factor in regularizing the habits of the people — their first lesson in working to the clock . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll have no problem at all filling in a couple of hours with all the Princes Street shops to keep you occupied . |
| 7 | The objections that are raised against identity assumptions in respect of meanings in such a context are chiefly motivated by the fear that such assumptions might commit us to accepting meanings as some kind of entities . |
| 8 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 9 | Furthermore , blind use of antibiotics on such a large scale and the attendant difficulties with compliance might well aggravate the problem of drug resistance . |
| 10 | On the other hand and this is where many people go wrong that tiny bit of butter that you sneak onto a crispbread I s going to make a difference because there are such an enormous number of calories in such a very modest quantity of fat . |
| 11 | It has thousands of entries on all the aspects of the worldwide game . |
| 12 | The seminar concluded with the drawing together of the discussions at an open forum after which , Past Chairman of APC , gave a vote of thanks to all the contributors for a useful and informative experience . |
| 13 | Two men removed courses of bricks for half the distance round the base , at the same time replacing the bricks with timber blocks . |
| 14 | In our January issue , we omitted to say that we could not have taken the photographs of readers in all the colours of the rainbow without the cooperation of Debenhams in Western Road Brighton . |
| 15 | He was determined to let the clan see they 'd made no mistake in choosing him , and was off on a round of visits to all the main families , to impress them with his strength and intelligence , good sense and good humour . |
| 16 | This pattern of greater flexibility toward outside investigation of human rights abuses is also shown by the Sri Lankan government 's acceptance of visits by both the UN Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions and the UN Working Group on Disappearances . |
| 17 | From finds of coins , and from surviving Latin texts , there can be no doubt in this case that the movement of finds on such a large scale is the consequence of trade within a money-based economy . |
| 18 | JUST a little ditty penned by beer poet laureate Rex Tyler , a prolific rhymster with an entire anthology of odes for all the 70 bottled beers sold in his extraordinary store . |
| 19 | The head porter is responsible for the supervision and allocation of duties to all the uniformed staff , works in close liaison with the reception office , and usually keeps a log book recording all the various happenings and events during the day . |
| 20 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 21 | The political implications for both sets of countries of such a development would be unacceptable . |
| 22 | Nevertheless it is clearly playing a useful part in a prevention campaign ; indeed , the greater the number of elements in such a strategy the better . |
| 23 | Further , any person contemplating publication of statements in such a discussion would face duplication of the proceedings and increased costs in any case where the allegations made do identify an individual councillor or officer . |
| 24 | Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant . |
| 25 | Despite the breeding of dogs into such a variety of shapes and sizes that an alien visitor to our planet would be forgiven for thinking them all to be different species , yet these miscellaneous varieties all exhibit the same essential behavioural tendencies as their wolf ancestors . |
| 26 | Rather , it is to say that Gusfield 's theory may continue to have explanatory power , particularly with regard to the initial motivation of participants in such a movement , and that where Wallis ' work is important is in pointing to the cultural concerns that may also underpin the rise of specific moral entrepreneurial groups . |
| 27 | Two years later the so-called sub-committee bill of rights In 1974 the Democratic caucus further decided that all standing committees with more than 20 members should have at least 4 sub-committees . |
| 28 | There are , however , a number of problems with such an approach . |
| 29 | Broadly , practices , propositions , beliefs , and so forth , are ideological when they present a state of affairs in such a way as to render it attractive or self-evident to a specific audience . |
| 30 | Then Todger stood up , motivated more by a desire to please Miss Harker than by any interest in the suffering of a bunch of strangers in such a distant place as America . |