Example sentences of "[adj] and of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 15.3% swing against them in Torbay is indicative both of this and of a more generalised dissatisfaction with the policies of the council . |
| 2 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 3 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |
| 4 | I 'm not particularly interested in this and of course if I leave the magazine Mr Mitchell will leave with me . |
| 5 | Can I thank you most sincerely , it 's been a very emotive debate , a lot of people feel very strongly about this and of course they do , |
| 6 | Apparently erm , they often do this and of course , they sort of went into their home and got this girl with her friend and they sort of put the pegs on their noses and have these sort of rubber hats with those |
| 7 | In order to do this , we need to challenge many popular perceptions of old age and ageing and of their impact upon society as a whole . |
| 8 | It is historical and of our world . |
| 9 | In part , no doubt , it has been instilled by the critics ’ informed taste for early music and their sense that many performers have trivialized it while ignoring , in the process , a growing body of evidence for the a cappella performance of medieval and of ( much ) Renaissance Mass music , of late-medieval polyphonic songs from France and Spain , and of medieval monophonic lyrics of the most serious and ambitious kind . |
| 10 | The man , aged about 25 , slim and of Asian appearance , forced her back into the car and ordered her to drive off . |
| 11 | But very slim and of average height . |
| 12 | Each received a variant of Nora 's lofty homily on the virtues of staying calm and of reposing confidence in firms whose soundness was beyond question — plus , to be sure , the gold to back the words and to sugar the message . |
| 13 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 14 | He assisted at the baptism of Henry 's daughter Eleanor in 1161 and at the translations of dukes Richard I and II at Fécamp in 1162 and of Edward the Confessor at Westminster in 1163 . |
| 15 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | Amid demonstrations of the unemployed in the depression of 1892–95 , local authorities in districts where the problem was worst established public works and opened labour bureaux , i.e. labour exchanges for the simultaneous registration of the unemployed and of available work . |
| 17 | He would not approve materials or equipment for schools unless they were simple , functional , economical and of good quality in material and workmanship . |
| 18 | Each image pulsed animatedly , responsive to the currents of fortune , to the ebb and flow of events , to the forces of cleansing light and of dark malevolent corrupt insanity . |
| 19 | Each headstone is 32in high and of uniform appearance ( no distinction is made on account of military or civil rank , race or creed ) . |
| 20 | Telegraph Tower is hardly impressive architecture , though five storeys high and of hexagonal shape . |
| 21 | Clinton , a graduate of Hot Springs High and of the School of Government at Georgetown University , Washington , would dispute anything to provoke discussion . |
| 22 | 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 ; |
| 23 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 24 | Your personal belongings may be frugal and of little extrinsic value , but when they are lost or stolen , the cost of replacement can be surprisingly high and the distress caused may be considerable . |
| 25 | Perhaps a personification of the sun , Balder was described in the Edda ( a play about Scandinavian mythology ) as being handsome , brave and of ‘ shining ’ appearance . |
| 26 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 27 | Waigel forecast a public-sector deficit of DM38,000 million in 1993 and of DM22,000 million in 1994 . |
| 28 | In our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and the group at 31st March 1993 and of the profit and cash flows of the group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 29 | Digitizing began in 1973 and completion of the digitizing of the 1:1250 basic scale maps is expected by 1993 and of the 1:2500 series by 2005 . |
| 30 | In our opinion the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and the Group at 27th March 1993 and of the profit of the Group for the financial year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 1985 . |