Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle . |
| 2 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 3 | Exclusion criteria were : ( 1 ) Patients whose overall medical condition rendered them as unduly high risk for elective surgery — for example , severe chronic obstructive airways disease ; ( 2 ) patients considered unsuitable for surgery because of technical reasons such as ( a ) gross obesity , ( b ) fixed hiatus hernia , ( c ) previous major upper gastrointestinal surgery ; ( 3 ) patients who had received previous therapy for bleeding oesophageal varices ; ( 4 ) patients already taking beta blockers ; ( 5 ) patients on waiting list for liver transplantation ; ( 6 ) HBsAg positive subjects . |
| 4 | ‘ That you ’ Is usually proved by someone witnessing the theft , but can be proved by fingerprints , an admission by the accused , being found in possession of the stolen property , and by the use of a variety of technical aids such as a concealed camera . |
| 5 | This [ contemporary ] condition … greatly puzzles the now small body of surviving constitutionalists old enough to remember the sentiment of the mid-Victorian era , with its prevalent belief that to imitate the forms , or at any rate to adopt the spirit of the English constitution , was the best method whereby to confer upon the people of any civilised country the combined blessings of order and of progress . |
| 6 | In the 1970s the odds had lengthened against effective leadership from the White House ; there had been a succession of failed presidencies public confidence in political institutions had slumped disastrously and congress had become even more difficult to deal with . |
| 7 | In the tables which follow , and which illustrate the distribution of dated items first by century , and then by decade within the twentieth century , the findings of the 1969–70 and 1970–71 surveys are set alongside those of the present Call-slip analysis exercise . |
| 8 | But Professor Leadbetter also feels the laboratory has a duty to serve British industry , which , he said , lags behind Japan and the United States in the exploitation of advanced facilities such as the SRS . |
| 9 | Low priority was given to industry and science and , so the analysis goes , a tendency grew for those with wealth and some ability to avoid management in favor of professional pursuits such as the law . |
| 10 | Recent years have seen an extraordinary surge of energy among women despite continuing disadvantages : the growth of Well Women Centres , Rape Crisis Lines , the campaign in response to the discrimination against lesbians in Section 25 , the Greenham peace camp , the organisation of professional groups such as Women in Engineering and Women in Publishing , are all manifestations of this energy . |
| 11 | R.2 contains the fundamental requirement that an incorporated practice must be recognised by the Council as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships ( ‘ MNPs ’ ) . |
| 12 | ( g ) ‘ recognised body ’ means a body corporate for the time being recognised by the Council under these Rules as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships ; |
| 13 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of these Rules , a body corporate may carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships provided that before commencing any such business such body corporate shall have been recognised by the Council as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of such services and provided that at all times while carrying on such business it remains so recognised . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) Where a body corporate has applied for recognition in accordance with Rule 15 the Council may recognise the body as a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships where the Council is satisfied : |
| 15 | Practitioners are strongly advised to use Clause 3(a) as under the Rules a solicitors ' incorporated practice is permitted only to ‘ carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships . ’ |
| 16 | ( a ) To carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors and by multi-national partnerships PROVIDED THAT nothing in any sub-clause of this Clause shall give the Company power to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or section 9 of the AJA . |
| 17 | Practitioners are strongly advised to use Clause 3(a) as under the Rules a solicitors ' incorporated practice is permitted only to ‘ carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships . ’ |
| 18 | ( a ) To carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors and by multi-national partnerships PROVIDED THAT nothing in any sub-clause of this Clause shall give the Company power to do any thing in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or section 9 of the AJA . |
| 19 | In addition to these three , there are a number of professional bodies concerned with maintaining standards of professional training , such as the English National Board for nursing , and the Royal College of Psychiatrists for doctors . |
| 20 | Utterly ruthless in the methods he used , he created a highly-centralized , tightly-knit organization of professional revolutionaries obedient to his will . |
| 21 | Whilst the maintenance of professional standards must remain paramount , competition is increasing as a result both of clients demanding evidence of value for money and of the number of professional practices anxious to increase the size of their slice of the cake . |
| 22 | The presence of carbon-bearing rocks similar to those studied here would raise the rock conductivity to moderate values if dry and to high values if also saturated with brines , producing values similar to those observed for the crustal high-conductivity zones by magnetotelluric methods . |
| 23 | Here the critical developments were to take place during the Beagle 's visit to the Galapagos islands , a small group of volcanic islands several hundred miles out into the Pacific from the South American mainland . |
| 24 | This will be based upon the possession of scarce resources such as coal or oil or manpower and the extent to which those resources are in demand . |
| 25 | To optimise the allocation of available resources and thus reduce the usage of scarce resources such as energy . |
| 26 | It made the education of deaf children compulsory between the ages of seven to sixteen and imposed an obligation upon local school boards to build schools as necessary . |
| 27 | As Montgomery ( 1981 ) points out , the Makaton Vocabulary is not suitable for the general population of deaf children due to its limited vocabulary size . |
| 28 | The discovery of Cambrian faunas similar to that of the Burgess Shale is likely . |
| 29 | Attract birds to the garden by feeding them when their natural sources of food are scarce ; grow plants favoured by insect predators ( like limnanthes , cornflowers , eschscholzia , asters , chrysanthemums , robinia , philadelphus and spiraea ) , and respect the habitats of retiring predators such as beetles , frogs and bats . |
| 30 | It was brave of the authors to heap praise on the high-energy policies of Labour cities such as Sheffield and Birmingham ; and braver still to cite Richard Rogers ' plan for London , co-written with Fisher . |