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

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1	On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil .
2	The spectacle of young people deferring to others and flagrantly performing small selfless acts of charity in the local area leaves a very bad taste in the mouth and gives an entirely distorted view of the standards which obtain at this school .
3	Marxism 's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor .
4	The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier —
5	From the upstairs window of the grey-stone , substantial house at the top of the road there was billowing into the night slow , steady streams of smoke — not thick , or threatening in themselves , but culminating in a heavy , acrid cloud haloing the house , and sending a hideous smell of ruin down the gentle hill to the centre of the town .
6	I do the odd bit of d-i-y round the home , which I do n't find too difficult , being an engineer by trade .
7	She said : ‘ Experience elsewhere has shown that people with head injuries need a concentrated level of service in the early stages .
8	An obvious method is to advertise but be careful that you aim the right kind Of advertising in the right direction , otherwise it is money badly spent .
9	Ralph King must be a very active 70 year old to attempt such an ambitious project , namely to cover the broad field of safety in the process industry in one volume without assistance from other experts .
10	They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future .
11	Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos .
12	That there is a broad division of opinion on the subject of sole practice within different sectors of the profession is difficult to dispute from the comments made in response to the consultation .
13	— ( 1 ) In subsection ( 3 ) of section 131 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ( community charge benefits ) in paragraph ( a ) the words ’ and is not there shown as undertaking a full-time course of education on the day ’ shall be deleted ; ( 2 ) In subsection ( 5 ) of that section after ’ concerned ’ there shall be inserted : — ’ up to 100 per cent .
14	It will be divided from the gravel and undergravel filter by a 3″ tall strip of glass across the tank .
15	Sturge chairman David Coleridge said : ‘ Wise Speke 's performance in the first half year suffered from the depressed level of activity in the Stock Market as a result of political and economic uncertainty prior to the General Election .
16	You see , paradoxically , C One little one and C One little three in fact give a strong measure of protection to the er character of the conservation areas do they not ?
17	Together with this neighbourhood there were strong signs of gentrification in the Mexican War Streets area of Central North Side , the census tract with Historic Designation in Manchester and a single census tract in East Allegheny .
18	This type of generalization requires the comparison of maps showing the two spatial patterns of elevation of the terrain above sea-level and the distribution of pine trees over that same terrain .
19	There are also variations in the temporal and spatial patterns of deforestation in the Indian Himalaya ; in Uttar Pradesh , for example , Tejwani ( 1987a ) reports that forest losses have been extensive and that much of what remains is degraded .
20	Days before the explosions the water company had been told by local people of the strong smell of gas in the district , but it had not ordered an evacuation .
21	‘ There is a strong tide of change in the rural areas .
22	It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather .
23	Its foreword contained the kernel of the policy : ‘ The Government accept as one of their prime aims and responsibilities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war . ’
24	The conventional explanation of the coalition 's commitment to provide ‘ a high and stable level of employment after the war ’ is that men in positions of power were convinced the aim could be achieved by a policy of managing effective demand , as advocated by Keynes and his supporters .
25	The latter was significant because of its opening pledge : " The Government accepts as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war . "
26	In the motorway restaurant I asked for tea and wholemeal toast , and saw the usual look of incomprehension on the face of the girl behind the counter .
27	In the political literature of Calvinism in the 1570s this old argument is pushed significantly further .
28	Underlying this broad level of agreement across the generations there are several significant age variations within the elderly population .
29	The next sections will describe some of the broad patterns of change in the composition of the occupational structure and the distribution of income and wealth in Britain in the twentieth century .
30	This limited reaction against Stalinism and the perversion of Marxist theory to justify Soviet policy-making was strengthened by the growth of more militant European forms of socialism in the mid-1960s .