Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ culture of contentment ’ — Galbraith might equally have used the phrase ‘ culture of complacency ’ — is the prevailing majority of electors in the US , UK and other advanced economies . |
| 2 | There is usually no great profit on these transactions , despite the high rents achievable on the right kind of homes in the right areas for incoming expatriate employees of firms like his own . |
| 3 | From the passenger 's viewpoint the first things that are different are the plug-type sliding doors , improved welcoming entrance vestibules and a seating layout with some facing pairs of seats in the standard class at tables for four , with others in twos having a face-to-back arrangement . |
| 4 | Finally , in part three , Lowe concludes his study by offering a brief interim assessment of developments in the welfare state since 1976 . |
| 5 | Ablation of area 17 leads to almost total loss of cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate body , a process known as retrograde degeneration . |
| 6 | The golden number was used as an auxiliary indication of dates in the Middle Ages ( see Cheney op cit ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be consistent with the data ’ , he writes , ‘ and defensible on logical grounds to argue that the growth and decline in the designated areas merely reflects , after an appropriate time lapse , the gains or losses to the total stock of G.P.s in the country . ’ |
| 8 | Thinking the same way about syntax , we can say that a given set of rules ( a syntactic analysis ) is a function whose domain is the set of possible combinations of morphemes in the language L , and whose range has just two elements , denoting the grammatical and the ungrammatical in L ; or thinking about semantics , we might say that a semantic analysis of L has as its domain the set of well-formed sentences of L , and as its range the set of semantic representations or propositions representing the meaning of each of those sentences . |
| 9 | In particular , they enjoy : ( i ) a different variety of instruments in the eurobond market ; ( ii ) arbitrage opportunities between domestic and euro-issues — e.g. GMAC euro/domestic spreads might widen out to 30 basis points , generating arbitrage opportunities ; and ( iii ) a tax advantage . |
| 10 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 11 | This test was taken by nearly all pupils participating in the programme of testing in order to facilitate the comparison between different groups of pupils in the target sample . |
| 12 | ‘ We are moving into an economic environment where the number of scheme members , the increasing number of pensioners , and the high level of holdings in the equity of public companies by pension funds mean that a situation of uncertainty is undesirable . |
| 13 | Women 's world could therefore be seen as inferior to the higher cultural activities of men in the public domain — a fact recognized by the first century AD Jewish philosopher Philo who in his writings made much play of this gender-differentiated opposition between the public and private domains . |
| 14 | Note that on a hive-down of assets to Target , the vendor 's surplus franked investment income and ACT are not " inherited " by Target , so for these to be preserved for Newco 's benefit a direct purchase of shares in the vendor company would be required . |
| 15 | A number of the gains made by the unions are the direct result of changes in the labour legislation ; for example , as noted above , the regular working week was reduced in stages from 48 hours to 40 hours . |
| 16 | In ‘ Beyond the Micro : Laxton , The Computer and Social Change Over Time ’ , published in The Local Historian , volume 16 , no. 8 ( 1985 ) , pp. 451–6 , they remark on the contrast between a high turnover of individuals in the village and an underlying stability of households . |
| 17 | This extraordinary diversity in powers of hearing is due to the different designs of ears in the natural world , and the amount of each animal 's nervous system or brain which is devoted to receiving the sounds . |
| 18 | The faddish demands of consumers in the moneyed classes wreaks havoc in communities thousands of miles from those modish dinner tables and wardrobes . |
| 19 | While careful arrangements were made for the placement of every long-stay patient from Exminster , there was no direct reprovision of wards in the hospital as wards in the community . |
| 20 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 21 | Great houses have many different sorts of gardens in the total plan . |
| 22 | The deletion of the negative by Kirkup matched well the new more assertively public attitude of homosexuals in the 1960s and 1970s ; his means , the depiction of a homosexual relationship between a Roman centurion and the crucified body of Christ , depicted in the most physical sensual terms , was nothing if not polemical . |
| 23 | A high proportion of merchants in the textile-dominated Moscow region belonged to the inward-looking Old Believer tradition . |
| 24 | The high proportion of carbohydrates in the leaves makes them an ideal target for creatures that bite and suck out the energy rich sap . |
| 25 | Even if it is not read out in the endless rounds of buying and selling shares , then the message , passive though it might be , should still find its way into the living rooms of a high proportion of homes in the Sheffield region . |
| 26 | ( 1983 ) consider the effects on Andean topography of variations in the angle of plate subduction . |
| 27 | One of the most important advances in contemporary Marxist thinking about bureaucracy resulted from a debate about the significance of the social origins of bureaucrats in the capitalist state . |
| 28 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 29 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 30 | More recently , and as a direct outcome of shortcomings in the original four theories , two ‘ new ’ theories have been proposed . |