Example sentences of "and of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in a stable environment ( ie. the container finn ) the most efficient structure was one in which the influence and authority of senior managers were relatively high and of middle managers low ; |
| 2 | in a dynamic environment ( ie the plastics firm ) the most efficient structure was one in which the influence and authority of senior managers were somewhat less , and of middle managers correspondingly greater . |
| 3 | Correspondingly from a practical training viewpoint there developed a more systematic approach to taxonomies of training and of instructional methods together with their inter-relationships . |
| 4 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 5 | The company was a founder member and is still a major supporter of the Portman Group in the UK and of similar organisations which combat alcohol abuse worldwide , such as the Century Council in the USA and DIFA-Forum in Germany . |
| 6 | Howard not only proposed segregation by sex and of hardened felons from the younger , more tractable ones ; he proposed day rooms , useful work and single cells . |
| 7 | The Tuareg demands included the withdrawal of the army to barracks , the ending of massacres and of arbitrary arrests of civilians , and an independent inquiry into the issue , with international observers . |
| 8 | There are fairy rings of eight-inch-diameter horse-mushrooms and of shaggy parasols ( no good for eating raw , but I pick a bagful for later . ) |
| 9 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 10 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 11 | What we now know as a result of studies on the enkephalin-endorphin system has brought a new understanding of pain and of bodily responses to injury . |
| 12 | Rumours spoke of Hitler ignoring all warnings , and of major differences between him and his military advisers . |
| 13 | Within the disorganised majority , however , there occur random interests and forces , the result both of human volition , of social pressures and of economic developments . |
| 14 | The diversity of political systems and of economic records in developing countries suggested that international capitalism was not the sole deciding factor . |
| 15 | It is a particularly modern , post-industrial form of ruination and is as widespread and careless of its victims and of international boundaries as the wind that disperses it . ’ |
| 16 | The research on the European volunteer scheme will be carried out using a number of primary and documentary sources , in particular key government papers , held in the Public Record Office.Trade union reports , reports of voluntary organisations and of international organizations involved in resettling the refugees will also be consulted . |
| 17 | Having lost his fear of the future and of black Africans , Don invited his white socialite friends to meet his new black friends in his home . |
| 18 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 19 | To the considerations already adduced — modes of internal and of external relations — we can add a distinction , evident between the Pre-Raphaelites on the one hand and both the Godwinians and Bloomsbury on the other , between relatively simple and relatively complex formations , in terms of the area — the actual grouping of practices — which the formation represents . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) The experience of cinematic viewing — the dark , the succession of images ( ‘ perceptual memories ’ ) , the wonder , the wish fulfilment — has , as Metz ( 1982 , pp. 106–9 ) observed , a very great deal in common with the experience of dreaming and of unconscious processes . |
| 21 | The summons of wider groups , because matters affecting the common good were at stake , in no way diluted Innocent 's conceptions of the role of the clergy and of the laity , of bishops and of lower clergy , of kings and of lesser laymen , nor of his own position in leading the Ecclesia or " congregation of the faithful " . |
| 22 | The total number of cells and of labelled cells within a randomly selected field of view were counted . |
| 23 | Personal social services are the responsibility of county councils ( outside metropolitan areas ) and of metropolitan districts or London boroughs in England and Wales ; in Scotland personal social services are the responsibility of regional and island authorities and in Northern Ireland of Health and Social Service Boards . |
| 24 | Thus , science must begin with myths , and with the criticism of myths ; neither with the collection of observations , nor with the invention of experiments , but with the critical discussion of myths , and of magical techniques and practices . |
| 25 | ‘ Our resident poet could sing of Stalinvast 's lethal festering jungles which I never saw ; and of viscous scabs blasted in those jungles by a host of weapons ; and of all the reef-cities which I never saw either , infested with their slaving grimy weapons-makers . |
| 26 | In the same period the number of men serving medium sentences ( 18 months to 4 years ) rose by 34 per cent and of long sentences ( 4 years or more ) by no less than 82 per cent . |
| 27 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 28 | Direct broadcasting by satellite ( DBS ) was a long time coming ; but well before its arrival in Europe in 1989 the image of DBS and the reality of low- , medium- and high-powered satellites and of satellite-to-cable systems had already had a profound impact on broadcasting policy . |
| 29 | The union , with the object of getting all mill workers to be members and of increasing wages , approached the mill owners , who replied that they could not raise the wages because of the competition of the crofters who wove imported yarn . |
| 30 | Relations between the secular parties and the Jamaat-i-Islami remained difficult , however , particularly against a background of continuing violence between the student supporters of the Awami League , the BNP and the Jamaat and of controversial statements by some Moslem leaders . |