Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 overseas tax , relieved and unrelieved , specifying the part of unrelieved overseas tax which arises from the payment or proposed payment of dividends .
2 Its members represent a combined total of 2.5 million people who care about the conservation , protection or quiet enjoyment of landscape , wildlife or amenity in Wales .
3 It is as if the writer were drawing , in words , one of those pictorial maps where each point of approach is represented by a picture , each landscape captured on the page in one carefully selected view described in a concrete , unfussy , immediate way .
4 Later the masculine myth is restated as a phallic ‘ spiral … like a ziggurat or seven-terraced Tower of Babel ’ ( 139/533 ) .
5 Tazieff maintains , however , that there is no contamination or any release of radio activity from underground testing , and that it is ‘ scientifically impossible ’ for radio active debris to be spread beyond Mururoa by storms .
6 Always cut back to clean , healthy wood , with no discolouration or other sign of disease .
7 The first is the selection as the primary or preferred mode of transmission of the indirect consular channel .
8 So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned .
9 The nature-versus-culture model of analysis was first developed within anthropology to help account for the universal subordination or secondary status of women in all societies at all times .
10 Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern .
11 Rather as the soft toy or ragged piece of blanket provide transitional objects in early childhood , these figures provide transitional attachments , and reflections of an ideal self , which help the individual towards autonomy .
12 So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project .
13 As the building trade is notoriously unstable financially and B might have gone out of business , many actions were brought against local authorities for negligently approving plans or negligent inspection of houses under construction .
14 Many homes have a notice board where this kind of information is displayed .
15 It is therefore particularly suitable for estimating maximum temperature exposure or maximum depth of burial .
16 We further acknowledge and hold you free of any responsibility for the information contained in the Memorandum ( other than arising from the gross negligence or wilful default of KPMG Peat Marwick or any of its partners and employees or agents ) .
17 It is probably fair to say that communication has sometimes been more effective at very local level where local sharing of concerns over mutual clients has been possible where inter-agency relationships are good .
18 An affidavit of service is only required where no defence or other evidence of service is available and judgment in default is being sought .
19 An affidavit of service is required where no defence or other evidence of service is available and the plaintiff is seeking judgment by default .
20 Weaknesses relating to board control included : an over-dominant and over-ambitious chief executive or executive team ; inadequate or biased information given to the board , infrequent board meetings or inadequate recording of board decisions ; imbalanced boards in terms of skills ; strategies based on short-term share price rather than solidity of real earnings ; and inadequate systems of financial control .
21 This indirect evidence suggests a reduced absorption or increased secretion of protein , or both by the gall bladder leading to a change in the biliary protein fraction , as the gall bladder absorbs biliary protein selectively and the increased CSI enhances the secretion of pronucleating protein mucin .
22 Many of us from experience wish to say something like this : ‘ Lord , I do not have the ability to comprehend how you feed me through such simple gifts as this piece of bread or wafer or that sip of wine — but I know you do ! ’
23 Whatever your past experience or clinical area of expertise , you may still feel apprehensive and nervous about returning to practice , even after completing a re-entry programme .
24 Group C different once again dressing in a dressing room for a play or any kind of stage production .
25 Group C dressing for a play or any kind of stage production in the dressing room .
26 ‘ It is not job description or physical place of work that determines risk , it is the frequency of exposure to blood , ’ he stressed .
27 It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression .
28 ‘ I should n't think so ; if he did — hospital clinics or that sort of thing — he would have said , would n't he ? ’
29 Meese was also something of a hard-line conservative , ever alert to any dilution of the faith or any hint of disloyalty to the president .
30 Energy cut-out is the second level of safety and is set to operate at 85°C to 90°C to turn off the boiler or other source of heat
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