Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 2 | Against all this the ESP addicts will retort that there is one feat performed by some cats that requires an acceptance of telepathic communication between human owner and lost feline . |
| 3 | The arrogance of Bolshevik-inspired youth towards the patriarchal rural community also transpires from other criticisms directed against younger visitors . |
| 4 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 5 | Here he uses a telling quotation : ‘ Evolution is the root of atheism , of communism , nazism , behaviorism , racism , economic imperialism , militarism , libertinism , anarchism and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice . ’ |
| 6 | If the frequency difference between half-power points on the resonance curve is then it can be shown that , for small loss , the loss factor The vibrating reed method may therefore be used to plot the loss-factor/ temperature " spectrum " ( although for precise work the change of resonant frequency with temperature needs to be compensated for by , for example , time-temperature superposition . |
| 7 | Cheltenham is a town of spacious elegance from sweeping terraces and broad avenues bordered by trees and gardens galore . |
| 8 | Again a new fleet for 1990 , offering a stylish combination of spacious comfort with exciting sailing performance . |
| 9 | The centrality of hierarchical institutions in this field ( and its closeness to the field of power ) means that collective struggles will be between classes of ‘ priests ’ safely ensconced in institutions . |
| 10 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 11 | It provides object-linking and graphical displays of hierarchical structures like the thesaurus and tool boxes . |
| 12 | For Naville , given his Marxist theoretical perspective , this visible autonomy sweeps aside the veil and reveals the nature of the existing patterns of hierarchical organisation in their true light — as patterns that are socially , and not technologically , determined . |
| 13 | This would imply at least that the early fragment of language poses the problem of hierarchical analysis in a reasonably pure form . |
| 14 | The structural lacuna in the intentional scenario is , I am suggesting , to be filled by something like Sampson 's account of the evolution of hierarchical arrangements of stable sub-assemblies . |
| 15 | In doing this it has also extended the role of hierarchical coordination in the overall process of running the country . |
| 16 | Let me illustrate this pattern of hierarchical layering with the case of two divisions of Corporation X , which has 32,000 employees and annual sales of $7 billion . |
| 17 | Marianne Farningham , religious journalist , learnt her faith from a papermaker Baptist grandfather , ‘ a preacher of great force ’ , who would sit ‘ in our kitchen , talking with some friend , each smoking a long clay pipe , and with a glass of home-brewed beer on the table ’ , debating ‘ on high themes , of Calvinistic doctrine and the heresies of Arminianism . ’ |
| 18 | David rose through the ranks from education officer to acting director of technical education during his years in Northern Rhodesia , but some years after the country gained independence he made the decision to leave . |
| 19 | This was not to deny the importance of technical education for the prospective tradesman , but he would be ‘ unsafe ’ unless this was supplemented by a training which allowed him ‘ to adapt himself to new conditions ’ . |
| 20 | But it is worth noting also that Scotland has had a relatively strong tradition of technical education for the last century , in contrast to the rather patchy developments south of the border ( Argles 1964 ) . |
| 21 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 22 | ROUGH TRADE Your Rights Explained Chris Roan is Head of Technical Services for Cambridgeshire County Council 's Trading Standards Department . |
| 23 | Jack ‘ I 'll be retiring soon ’ Duncan has finally gone and in a few weeks I shall also have a clear desk and be on my way to Viewforth , Stirling to take up my appointment as Director of Technical Services in Central Region . |
| 24 | We are co-operating with three European business schools ( ESC Lyons , Henley Management College and ESADE , Barcelona ) to develop the International Management Institute of St Petersburg , and do not consider that the Community is ‘ making a hash ’ of technical assistance to the ex-Soviet Union . |
| 25 | For example , shortage of technical assistance in the laboratories and lack of funds for equipment are mentioned at intervals throughout the narrative . |
| 26 | This may link with the lower average level of technical qualification among the UK chief executive officers . |
| 27 | The dominance of technical experts within the Communist Party as well as the state bureaucracy had introduced a new form of social stratification derived from technical knowledge and professional qualifications . |
| 28 | With the necessary minimum of technical instruction on camera and sound work the group then set to work to produce their own video film . |
| 29 | Brundle looks askance when he is asked if he has ever read the books of technical instruction in race-driving written by Pierro Taruffi and Alain Prost , among others . |
| 30 | These firms make particular use of technical knowledge about equipment , procedures , designs , or production processes ; and marketplace knowledge — detailed familiarity with a customer 's problem or proposed use for a product . |