Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 2 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps the prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started again ’ , speculates Francis Fukuyama , the US State Department official who started the latest fashion for this idea . |
| 4 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 5 | This comes as no surprise to the house-owner , and is only the culmination of years of dissatisfaction with the building industry . |
| 6 | No I I 'd suggest perhaps a couple of categories of non-verbal communication . |
| 7 | So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors . |
| 8 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 9 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 10 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 11 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 12 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 13 | It took only a couple of sessions of counselling ( and production of documentary evidence ! ) to persuade Clive that a decline in frequency of intercourse following early days of marriage is normal , that the frequency of intercourse between him and Maureen was about the " national average " and that he had been misled about both this and his own physical normality . |
| 14 | He tried to help her : ‘ They did n't find much ; only a couple of volumes of somebody 's journal — ’ |
| 15 | I have never shared the wild enthusiasm for anything ‘ single-bit ’ with which its arrival was greeted in some quarters ; indeed there are still only a handful of players of that ilk which I would contemplate as replacements for a good multi-bit machine , but this is one of them . |
| 16 | Firstly , although some of the schemes were designed for staff right across further education , they were attracting only a handful of teachers of vocational subjects , while the remaining schemes did not take their needs into account at all . |
| 17 | It is a good idea to take along a number of copies of your c.v . |
| 18 | Although the overall levels of recall in this study are relatively uninformative because the subjects knew that there would be subsequent memory questions , the dissociation between fixation and recall strengthens Summala and Hietamiki 's claim that low levels of recall are not necessarily a result of failures of perception . |
| 19 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 20 | Rosenthal ( 1983 ) draws together a number of criticisms of the argument which can be listed as follows . |
| 21 | In the broadest terms , it has been concerned with one aspect of youth history : how and why , and with what consequences for age relations , middle-class reformers put together a number of images of working-class adolescents . |
| 22 | As the number of possibilities of selecting the cards and thus the number of bits of information involved increases , the amount of time taken to perform the task increases proportionally . |
| 23 | It is not just the operation of systems of transport which is a source of endangerment : the actions of individuals may be designed to take advantage of the possibility of causing several deaths at once . |
| 24 | It had black sheets on it , and George was not sure if that was their original colour or just the result of years of use . |
| 25 | It thus affords a way in which the results of measurement can be associated with quantum mechanical observables : the possible results of measuring an observable are just the set of eigenvalues of the corresponding operator . |
| 26 | Modern Iran was largely the achievement of efforts of will on the part of two Shahs — Muhammad himself and his father Reza . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the flood of letters of a very different sort from anxious Hong Kong citizens to this and every other newspaper office continues . |
| 28 | Similarly , if you want to change the diet from juicy brown canned food to into a dry complete diet , start by mixing just a couple of pieces of dried food in with the juicy stuff , gradually increasing the proportion each day until you reach the desired menu . |
| 29 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 30 | Morgan 's work is divided into four parts : [ 1 ] The growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries , which deals in great part with agricultural technology ; [ 2 ] the growth of the idea of government , which is mainly a discussion of descent groups and how they ultimately give way to state organization , particularly the Roman state ; [ 3 ] the growth of the idea of the family , largely a discussion of types of marriage and types of kinship terminology ; and finally [ 4 ] the growth of the idea of property . |