Example sentences of "of [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tyminski announced on Oct. 4 that he would be returning to Canada , because " I do not want my presence here to create the appearance of honesty in these elections " . |
| 2 | The use and abuse of graphs in annual reports : theoretical framework and empirical study — Vivien Beattie and Michael John Jones . |
| 3 | The second marquess inherited the titles and the estates of his maternal grandfather on the death of the fifth/sixth Earl of Dumfries in 1803 and those of his paternal grandfather on the death of the first Marquess of Bute in 1814 . |
| 4 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When the antislavery movement as a movement began to have a history , the writing of it by participants or writers dependent upon the perspective of participants contributed to a unifying consciousness central to which was a veneration of the heroic first generation who in their functional and religious diversity confirmed the possibility of unity in common endeavour . |
| 7 | In other cases atoms take the place of ions in regular lattice positions . |
| 8 | The imposition of taxes in this model is relevant to the effect not just on prices but also on industrial structure . |
| 9 | The levying of taxes in particular seems to have been based on the civitas . |
| 10 | Experience with the treatment of haemophilia in this country has shown this approach can be highly effective . |
| 11 | While the figures given presumably refer to the state of play in 953/1546–7 , the note in the summary that the original salary for teaching was 15 akce and the reference to teaching in the section concerned with the stipulation(s) laid down by the founder sart-i vakif ) suggest that the medrese figured in the original . |
| 12 | I think it is important to remind ourselves that the objectives of the LTA in introducing the Ratings scheme was to attempt to upgrade the standard of play in this country , to instigate a more competitive attitude and encourage a more professional approach . |
| 13 | Double marking is appropriate for a module having a high proportion of assessment in one form ( for example , 100 per cent examination , dissertations and projects ) or if assessment is not objective or quantitative ( such as a performance or presentation ) . |
| 14 | This study focuses instead upon interests in essentially urban industrial landscapes , raising questions of the methodology of assessment in these particular circumstances . |
| 15 | There are a number of caveats which concern the validity of using the results of assessment in this way . |
| 16 | Nor is the allocation of rewards in contemporary Britain commensurate with skill , hard work and the importance of one 's contribution to society , in the way that functionalist analyses of stratification would suggest . |
| 17 | Thus , in Gregory 's Histories the Council of Mâcon in 585 was expected to deal with a quarrel between bishops Bertram of Bordeaux and Palladius of Saintes , and it did deal with the theology of a certain unnamed bishop who thought that the word homo in the Bible did not apply to women . |
| 18 | The Latvian population was 51.8 per cent Latvian and 33.8 per cent Russian ( the highest proportion of Russians in any of the Baltic states ) , the remainder being Byelorussians , Poles and Ukrainians ( 1989 census ) . |
| 19 | The success of Secrets in 1910 ( author now generally forgotten ) shifted their emphasis , however , to the marketing of popular fiction , and launched a cultural phenomenon . |
| 20 | As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Peter of Corbeil was recommended for a prebend in York , given the bishopric of Cambrai in 1199 and then translated to the archbishopric of Sens in 1200 . |
| 23 | By 1985 , the UK was the largest exporter of NOx in northwestern Europe and the biggest contributor to NOx pollution at sites in Iceland , Ireland , Norway , Sweden , Belgium , the Netherlands and Denmark . |
| 24 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 25 | Lack of progress in Middle East peace negotiations — Events in occupied territories |
| 26 | Paragraph 19 of Progress in Financial Management in Government ( Cmnd. 9297 , July 1984 ) considered that there was a ‘ concerted effort to push forward improvements in management ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An advocate of progress in all forms , Wilson was the first in his area to illuminate his premises with gaslight . |
| 30 | Mrs Bottomley told MPs in the Commons reply : ‘ The report will be published and the chairman of the RHA will report to me on its outcomes and will keep me informed of progress in improving service performance during the inquiry period and beyond . ’ |