Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governors of states whose ruling political parties are in opposition to the Federal Government have announced plans to start their own channels . |
| 2 | This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices . |
| 3 | Finally , is the language behaviour of these " London Jamaican " speakers the sort of behaviour that characterises bilinguals , or is it more like the behaviour of monolinguals who style-shift from time to time in response to conversational and situational factors ? |
| 4 | The level of support which young people receive from parents and mentors will also have a significant effect upon the process of transition , for it is a stage in which their dependency is visibly apparent . |
| 5 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 6 | It can vary in precision from quantitative anthropometric surveys to attempts to describe the attributes of products which particular users prefer . |
| 7 | During the Later Middle Ages , there was an increasing shortage of coins which some historians believe led to a trade depression . |
| 8 | If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges . |
| 9 | Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation . |
| 10 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 11 | I mean after thirty years of policies our own real economy is shambles , growing unemployment . |
| 12 | Chairman the erm proposals in the what was the submitted plan in reference seventy nine read er Policy three , Subject to the provisions of Policies I four I eight and I nine there will be a general presumption against development in open countryside except for the purposes of agricultural policy and recreation and other uses appropriate to a countryside location . |
| 13 | His underground hideout is protected by all manner of nasties whose sole reason for living is to tear Jeremy limb from limb or , failing that , pinch his film ! |
| 14 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 15 | Social workers — caring workers generally — are " entrusted " with a burden of responsibility which many people would find impossible and most would find repugnant . |
| 16 | I knew little about him , except that when riding beside the Duke of Wellington his right knee was hit by one of the last shots fired that day . |
| 17 | During the 1960s and 1970s , she and her late husband collected mainly Surrealism and Chicago Imagism , and knew a number of artists whose chosen works were in the collection , including Calder . |
| 18 | Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers . |
| 19 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 20 | The complications of the laborious paperwork and endless reports of minutes which obsessed other members of the project held no interest for him . |
| 21 | Because of this excellence of technique their winning chances increase . |
| 22 | The pressure to remodel old pubs is of course nothing new . |
| 23 | There is of course nothing new in finding new uses : Malmesbury Abbey after the Reformation became Britain 's first clothing factory . |
| 24 | There is of course nothing new in that . |
| 25 | Ruling indirectly was of course nothing new for the British . |
| 26 | There is of course nothing new in the battle by memoir . |
| 27 | The value of the supportive stimuli derived from shared group experience is of course nothing new . |
| 28 | There was of course nothing new in a patriarchal family structure based on the subordination of women and children . |
| 29 | Vegetarianism is of course nothing new … famous veggies have included Leonardo da Vinci , Wordsworth … |
| 30 | The ultimate target of this frantic quest on the part of all the quality papers to conjure up the ideal-average readership — ‘ young , upwardly mobile … leisure and DIY- orientated ’ ( The Independent ) ‘ … a readership of the future with a strong sense of the past ’ ( The Guardian ) — is of course nothing other than that favoured figment of the marketing imagination : the yuppie . |