Example sentences of "and [adj] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our society 's moral values have also changed and we are more liberal and tolerant of such matters as entertainment . |
| 2 | Together with the urgent need for skills flexibility at all levels in the workforce in the 1990s , the philosophy of continual retraining , the enhancing and refreshing of existing skills and the establishing of new ones , is likely to be a major theme of European training initiatives throughout the 1990s and well into the next century . |
| 3 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 4 | This was the first step towards the creation of one of the most significant and controversial of Anglo-American connections during the Cold War . |
| 5 | The story of the unfolding and intertwining of these forces and of their interaction with other , less fundamental , developments is the subject of the next chapter . |
| 6 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 7 | The first half-year was to he duty free and clear of all taxes " impositions and assessment whatsoever which may be imposed by act of Parliament or otherwise howsoever … " |
| 8 | ‘ We are not dissimilar , ’ said Constance , lightly , ‘ both being artistic and free of bourgeois values . ’ |
| 9 | They are foul in speech and fond of silly stories . |
| 10 | To some extent these academic outsiders are ‘ the enemy ’ of police society , whose training and class aspirations makes them supporters of the status quo and resentful of liberal ideas or academic intrusion ( Reiner 1978a ) . |
| 11 | On the evening of the 27th , while extricating his platoon from a perilous position in houses in Hazenbrouck , Second Lieutenant Shewell showed great personal bravery and determined leadership and disposed of several snipers . |
| 12 | Nonetheless his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished . |
| 13 | In this way the Association could counter the Left Wing Type Seminars [ sic ] which were often very one sided and misrepresentative of current Police views … |
| 14 | Tony Garnett 's 1982 Handgun for instance , ends up celebrating gun lore , vindicating the vigilante ethos and subverting its heroine at every turn , finally implying that the way to redemption as a complete and fulfilled human being is through the absorbing and conquering of macho values . |
| 15 | The most recent and comprehensive of these relationships was the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977–79 . |
| 16 | Although the spectral index at phase 0.7 , close to the maximum , is about -2.0 between 606MHz and 1,660MHz and typical of most pulsars , at 408MHz the flux density is actually less than that at 606MHz and is lower than the extrapolated spectrum by a factor of about 4 ( Table 1 ) , indicating that strong absorption or scattering is occurring even when the companion is on the far side of the pulsar . |
| 17 | If , as I have argued , it is normal and typical of human beings to have basic impulses to assist other creatures in distress , to find them appealing to view , and in some cases to enjoy their close proximity ( infants reach out naturally towards a puppy but get agitated by wasps or beetles ) , it does not follow that we know how to treat them . |
| 18 | I am an extremely lazy cook and nervous of long recipes , complicated sauces or anything risky such as a soufflé . |
| 19 | It is as if containment , in reinstating nature over culture — that most fundamental and violent of binary oppositions — says too much about both . |
| 20 | As we saw earlier in the book , our culture majors in rationality , while staying fearful and ignorant of human emotions . |
| 21 | It was concerned with more than the effing and blinding of other ranks or what Cyril Connolly published in Horizon . |
| 22 | A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality . |
| 23 | On his right hand he had a pile in black and white of various comics : Horror Gothic ; The Torturer ; The Monthly Guide to the Underground . |
| 24 | The rodents or grazing mammals are the most successful and widespread of all groups . |
| 25 | One of the most enduring and widespread of these prejudices , which achieved the status of a popular myth , was that ‘ things were n't like that in my day ’ . |
| 26 | Today 's traffic is fast and unforgiving of equine errors and terrors . |
| 27 | Everyone of my age has suffered from the character who insists on having bedroom windows open , for instance , on the grounds that it is a healthy dodge and worthy of all men to be received . |
| 28 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 29 | And speaking of Australia , one of the strangest films in the LFF has come from there : Malpractice , made by Bill Bennett , and echoing the semi-documentary style and probing of official attitudes of his earlier A Street To Die , except that here the recounting of a medical accident is fictitious . |
| 30 | She was able to talk to his teacher , and when the teasing and probing of insensitive schoolfriends became hard to handle , Robert was able to talk about this with Theresa — he did n't want to burden his parents with it . |