Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Ash , he can still function effectively when ripped in half ( after all , 57 years of technical progress have elapsed ) and saves her life as well as Newt 's . |
| 2 | Preliminary drafts of technical reports have been prepared . |
| 3 | The social effects of this complex of technical changes have been diverse . |
| 4 | If the preceding birth interval is five ( in some cases even four ) years or longer , the chances of surviving infancy become poorer again , though considerably better than in the case of short spaced infants ( less than two years ) . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , despite a similar provision in section 6(3) of the Education Act 1980 ( enabling , until the ERA 1988 restricted its effect to schools which are not yet subject to LMS , parental preference to be denied formally on economic efficiency grounds ) considerable extensions of parental rights have occurred , as shown below . |
| 6 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 7 | The roots of parental involvement go back to the 1950s when primary schools began to have an identity of their own , an identity far removed from the old all-age elementary schools of pre-war years . |
| 8 | Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ? |
| 9 | The report has warned the government to prepare for the " wholesale contamination " which is likely to ensue as legions of small-scale operators shut down and abandon their plants . |
| 10 | The dates of outlying farmsteads elucidate the uneven process of the development of enclosure landscapes . |
| 11 | But by the end , when a couple of under-dressed girls have joined in the revels , the hard work of all concerned yields its quota of laughs . ’ |
| 12 | A fifth of autistic children have a normal IQ level ; a further 25% are ESN(M) and the remainder , ESN(S) . |
| 13 | Supporters of sacked workers have rejected accusations of ‘ rent-a-mob ’ tactics and say they plan to turn up in force again . |
| 14 | Dahl , 1954 , 1955 , 1987 ) ; however , the glacial survival of amphi-atlantic species such as Potamogeton epihydrus or Najas exilis ( as suggested by Harrison , 1948b ) or bryophytes such as Myurium hochstetteri , Leptodontium recurvifolium , or Campylopus shawii seems unlikely in view of reconstructed July mean temperatures during the last glacial maximum on St Kilda of 4°C and mean sea-surface temperatures around Rockall of 0–2°C ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Longterm studies of the natural history of indeterminate colitis have suggested that most of these cases behave more like ulcerative colitis than Crohn 's disease . |
| 16 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 17 | And their prospects of striking gold have been enhanced considerably by the presence of the ‘ A ’ team , Nicholas Cruz and Harry Robinson . |
| 18 | And their prospects of striking gold have been enhanced considerably by the presence of the ‘ A ’ team , Nicholas Cruz and Harry Robinson . |
| 19 | How the various forms of nutritional colitis relate to ulcerative colitis ( UC ) is uncertain , but studies have suggested that metabolism of the short chain fatty acid butyrate is impaired in UC . |
| 20 | Examples of extinct families include the shark-toothed dolphins ( Squalodontidae ) , and groups such as the Squalodelphidae , Acrodelphidae , and Albireonidae . |
| 21 | During the past 15 years , important discoveries of new kinds of extinct agnathans have been made worldwide which considerably increase our knowledge of the variety of agnathans and , at the same time , question some of the traditional ideas about the interrelationships of these early fishes and the history of vertebrate specializations . |
| 22 | Resolution 45/1 of Sept. 18 , adopted without a vote , admitted Liechtenstein as the 160th member of the United Nations [ see p. 37731 ; for May 23 accession of unified Yemen see p. 37470 ; for April admission of Namibia see p. 37563 ] . |
| 23 | Since there is a waiting list for places on the course for better driving , readers may be interested to know that groups affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Motorists hold such classes all over the country . |
| 24 | I read recently that applicants for the Institute of Advanced Motorists test are in the ratio of one woman to four men , but the success rate shows virtually the same number of women passing as men . |
| 25 | As a result , high standards of professional competence have evolved and have spread throughout the field . |
| 26 | Though Ronnie Shade , in his halcyon days as an amateur , came as close as any golfer one has seen to hitting shot after shot without any discernible sidespin , most of the elite of professional golf have had a preferred shape of shot since — and probably long before — the days of Harry Vardon and his fade . |
| 27 | Approval was given to the appointment of P.G.W. Cobb as chairman of Professional Affairs Board , from the 1992 AGM . |
| 28 | Dawson ( 1988 ) indicates that the characteristics of professional groupings include : |
| 29 | The Library Association 's Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct contain much that is pertinent to the question of censorship and access of information , as one might expect . |
| 30 | Clauses 1 , 4 , 10 and 11 of the UKCC Code of Professional Conduct refer to the individual practitioner 's accountability in this area . |