Example sentences of "and [noun pl] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he also mention at all that I won a national award recently for five years sustained voluntary input to the educational and professional development committee and activities of a professional body — the Assoc'n of Industrial Editors . |
| 2 | Although , as will shortly be evident , he became extravagantly pious , he retained some of the values and attitudes of a pagan past . |
| 3 | These publish news and views of a specific industry , trade or profession , and usually are bought only by those sectors . |
| 4 | The plan has received widespread international support and projects of a similar kind are being instigated in Australia , the United States and throughout Europe . |
| 5 | Since the small-signal behaviour of any four-terminal network is represented by equations ( 10.8 ) in terms of Z-parameters and by equations ( 10.12 ) in terms of h-parameters , the Z and h-parameters of a given four-terminal network are always interrelated . |
| 6 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 7 | Whether such protection should apply raises broader questions concerning the way in which delegated legislation and rules of a legislative nature are made , and also the type of remedy which should be available . |
| 8 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 9 | In the first place these schemes often represent the experience and values of a middle class urban or semi-urban culture , at times totally alien to the rural child . |
| 10 | Thus , the interview is often used to inquire into the beliefs and values of a particular social group on the supposition that these are crucial to the explanation of the behaviour of the members of the group . |
| 11 | He states that ideology consists of the beliefs and values of a ruling group which ‘ obscures the real condition of society both to itself and others and thereby stabilizes it ’ . |
| 12 | Skilbeck employs the idea of ideology ( a system of beliefs and values of a social group ) to describe powerful traditions which create educational theories . |
| 13 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 14 | If one has not got a keen interest in the overall aims and objects of a particular body , then it is unlikely that its A.G.M. will be a terrific draw . |
| 15 | These people prepare diagrams , drawings and plans of a technical nature and are employed at two levels , design and detail . |
| 16 | Similarly , the advice and judgments of a proposed ECOWAS Court of Justice would be binding on all institutions and members . |
| 17 | A world of unequal chances dominated by the values and institutions of a hated class is a world in decomposition , a world of death . |
| 18 | Greater political and economic co-operation in the Community does not require us to forget our nationhood , and the traditions and institutions of a free people . |
| 19 | The terraces of the casbah fell away down the hill , dove-tailed into one another like the streets and courts of a medieval city , all enclosed in a wall of the same red earth . |
| 20 | The real joke is that , by the time they made the decision , the alternative comedians were appearing in commercials and sitcoms of a kind indistinguishable from those they had once criticised . |
| 21 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 22 | The head and shoulders of a middle-aged man were clearly visible . |
| 23 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 24 | Bureaucracies exist primarily to respond to the problems and contradictions of a capitalist economy : there is no necessary reason for their existence independent of their class-biased role . |
| 25 | ‘ Common people worship a variety of icons which for purposes of practicality represent various attributes and aspects of a supreme Godhead . |
| 26 | Jasper , at nine , was a sturdy , broad-shouldered , dark-haired boy , very handsome , with strong regular features and eyes of a curious shade of dark violet-brown . |
| 27 | A slender youth with dark tousled hair and eyes of a stormy blue . |
| 28 | Sadly she could n't cope with the stresses and demands of a live programme . |
| 29 | In order to gain any consensual alliance in the area of law and order a State has to take note of the emerging social formations , class fractions , cultures and consciousnesses of a multi-ethnic , gender-conscious society . |
| 30 | possessing the head and torso of a man and the body and legs of a potent stallion , centaurs were the offspring of the first King of Thessaly and the cloud Nephele . |