Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 2 | But the cynical , knowing expression , mingled with the hunger in his eyes , brought her to her senses like a bucket of iced water tossed with ruthless insensitivity on an innocent sleeper . |
| 3 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 4 | Regular quality control seems necessary to achieve high quality CT examinations of testicular cancer performed at radiological units with limited experience in this condition . |
| 5 | Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles . |
| 6 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 7 | Mr Kovac did not elaborate but his statement was in line with Mr Meciar 's oft-declared intention to slow down the pace of economic reform introduced by free market apostle Vaclav Klaus after the collapse of communism . |
| 8 | BRITAIN is heading for a period of economic growth sustained by low rates of interest and inflation . |
| 9 | Differences of economic interest added to Anglo-American diplomatic strains . |
| 10 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 11 | To ensure this impartiality there are stringent restrictions on the degree of political involvement permitted to civil servants . |
| 12 | From this , one might hypothesize that education is important in developing the intellectual skills necessary to absorb and make sense of political material communicated by other media . |
| 13 | Until the early 1960s the effects of rural depopulation , the dilapidation of much rural property and the cost of travel to urban centres all contributed to the lower price of rural housing compared with urban areas . |
| 14 | This phenomenon of STYLE BORROWING has many manifestations in prose : the child language at the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait is an example we have already noted ; others are the style of private correspondence used in epistolary novels such as Pamela ; the racy colloquialism of first-person novels such as The Catcher in the Rye ; the use of stylistic parody and pastiche as exemplified in Ulysses . |
| 15 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 16 | The law on restitution of private property seized under communist rule passed in May 1991 [ see p. 38207 ] specifically ruled out restitution to Sudeten Germans . |
| 17 | Indeed , the term ‘ dramatic statement ’ , to which they become quite attached as the book proceeds , perhaps takes us too firmly in the direction of propositional knowledge translated into dramatic coding . |
| 18 | We said very little — simply worked together , sweating , sniffing , aware of each other bent in crazy service to this marvellous beast she 'd roused . |
| 19 | He touched his lips with his tongue and , to her horror , her palms felt the nub of each breast thrust in hungry demand . |
| 20 | The courses will reflect changes made by the national curriculum in order to reduce the amount of internally-assessed coursework allowed in English exams . |
| 21 | There is however a third style of Spanish dance known as Spanish Court dance . |
| 22 | Here Gibson is shown attending to clients , whilst to the left of the shop can be seen two painted hatchments of the type offered up on the house of the deceased , with two smaller shields above of painted canvas mounted on black velvet , as applied to the palls of the nobility and others entitled to bear arms . |
| 23 | The distribution of ET-1 mRNA demonstrated by in-situ hybridisation was similar to the distribution of ET-1-IR . |
| 24 | This is in a sense the most fundamental statistical representation , although it is not the most convenient for the development of models of turbulent structure based on experimental observation . |
| 25 | This might be a typical presentation of acute hyperventilation caused by rapid shallow breathing during moments of high anxiety . |
| 26 | By concentrating on the way conversational contributions overlap , however , we may neglect aspects of conversational discourse associated with different speakers having different personal ‘ topics ’ . |
| 27 | However , since they are usually areas of low vegetation dominated by rough grasses frequently with bracken ( Pteridium aquilinum ) , gorse ( Ulex sp. ) , and scattered trees , in ornithological terms it is convenient to consider the two together . |
| 28 | You did n't happen to notice another big button with SECRET VAULT FULL OF STOLEN TREASURE printed in big letters above it then ? ’ |
| 29 | Proposal documents inevitably employed statements of broad aim couched in general terms and expressed in a way thought to meet the Coordinating Team 's expectations . |
| 30 | When using the direct method , tesserae are placed by hand into a layer of fresh mortar spread in small patches across the hardened , penultimate , mortar layer , ( hence the possibility of guidelines , see above ) . |