Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Examples of technical failures of mechanical means of soil conservation have already been given in Chapter 5 . |
| 4 | The transfer of program-software to optical media invokes a raft of technical issues of operational compatibility that would require prohibitively large ( for a museum with a conventional mandate ) engineering and hardware design investment to solve . |
| 5 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 6 | There were several partial carcases in the nest consisting of articulated legs of mammals and wings and limbs of birds . |
| 7 | Specific mention is made of , among others , the Ignalina nuclear power station , which is badly constructed and lacks proper safety procedures ; the Akmene cement works , which causes respiratory diseases and dermatitis among local people ; the Jonava fertilizer plant , the site of a major accident in 1989 involving the emission of 7,000 tons of ammonia ; and the Mazeikiai oil refinery , which emits 62,000 tons of pollutants , including phenol and acetone , directly into the air every year . |
| 8 | The first 10 years ' capacity of 7,000 tonnes of spent fuel is taken up and full provision for the decommissioning of all THORP facilities will have been covered during this period . |
| 9 | Mitchell also announced the release of 7,000 acres of state-owned land to form 1,500 smallholdings as part of the government 's land distribution programme . |
| 10 | " This is the century which sees the erosion of half-free forms of labour , the decline of living-in , the final extinction of labour services and the advance of free , mobile , wage labour . " |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 12 | The idea of commissioning artists to decorate ceramics in their own individual styles was a tradition first established in the 1770s when Josiah Wedgwood employed the services of noted artists of the time . |
| 13 | Each year it belches out the sum of 325,000 tonnes of sulphur . |
| 14 | He admitted theft of 320 kgs of feed on February 10 and theft of 1.79 tonnes of feed before his arrest . |
| 15 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 16 | Bush had still to convince the US Congress , however , to release the US$94,000,000 in economic and military aid which it had frozen in July because of doubts about the government 's commitment to an anti-drug programme and because of persistent reports of gross human rights abuses by the military . |
| 17 | Relations between the two countries had been severely strained because of persistent allegations of support by the Solomons for the secessionist rebellion on the island of Bougainville which , although formally a part of Papua New Guinea , was geographically and ethnically closer to the Solomon Islands . |
| 18 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |
| 19 | The only difference between the two species is that splurge-weed reproduces by hiving off chunks of itself consisting of indeterminate numbers of cells , while bottle-wrack reproduces by hiving off chunks of itself always consisting of single cells . |
| 20 | Out of 859 transgressions of pollution laws by 20 companies between 1985 and 1990 , only 1 per cent were prosecuted . |
| 21 | The Bill deals with evidence in criminal matters only to the extent of preserving provisions of the Acts now to be repealed and re-enacted which apply to criminal evidence as well . |
| 22 | THE late Bruce Chatwin once said that when he worked at Sotheby 's he became acutely aware of indestructible objects of art surviving over the years while generations of human flesh decayed around him . |
| 23 | These results support the necessity of combined modes of treatment including chemotherapy for the eradication of metastatic disease unsuspected at the time of diagnosis . |
| 24 | Every Saturday and Sunday , on the dot of 8.30am , hordes of uniformed children of all ages can be seen converging on Hampton Court in Surrey . |
| 25 | Translators are in a position similar to that of advanced learners of a language , and pitfalls of this sort become more common when the direction of translation is into the non-native language rather than the translator 's mother tongue . |
| 26 | Moscow has said that it recognises that GRID 's potential exists in the effective use of advanced methods of collecting and analyzing the results of land , aerial and space monitoring of the environment , such monitoring being " an important element in early forecasts of ecological catastrophes " . |
| 27 | The offering consists of conversion tools that enable X applications now hosted under Unix to migrate them to NT — Congruent is developing NT implementations of the programming libraries and the X sample applications , including Xterm , enhanced to take advantage of advanced features of NT . |
| 28 | The offering consists of conversion tools that enable X applications now hosted under Unix to migrate them to NT — Congruent is developing NT implementations of the programming libraries and the X sample applications , including Xterm , enhanced to take advantage of advanced features of NT . |
| 29 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 30 | ‘ It is possible that there is some historical connection between the Yoga and occult practices of India and Tibet and the practice of psychic powers of Aboriginal men of high degree . |