Example sentences of "of [adv] [adj] [noun] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) A school population of widely varying abilities and with very mixed ethnic and cultural backgrounds . |
| 2 | The case series quoted in their article in support of a low mortality after intervention in elderly people may not be representative as published series are often of highly selected patients and from centres of excellence and are likely to overestimate the results obtained in more typical practice . |
| 3 | Such women suffered from a lack of formally structured education and from inhibitions about taking the authoritative initiative involved in composing written texts . |
| 4 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 5 | Our expansion had necessitated the leasing of more expensive equipment and in a short time the café was losing a lot of money . |
| 6 | This project will now generalise its findings to the graphical teaching of more powerful logics and to the choice of media of expression in the design of computer interfaces . |
| 7 | There was also a major increase in the number of small households , as a result of the growth of the elderly population , the rise in the divorce rate and the financial advantages of ‘ double-income , no-kids ’ life styles — a trend to which the building industry was relatively quick to respond in the absence of more lucrative opportunities and as part of subsidized inner city renewal projects ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 8 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 9 | He quotes the example of hard red winter wheat which has already considerably expanded northward and northwestward since 1920 — being made possible by plant-breeding programmes of more cold-hardy strains and by the introduction of new technological advances and dry land-management practices such as summer fallow and stubble mulching . |
| 10 | It is concluded that patients treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis who have coexisting ulcerative colitis have a more benign course of colitis resulting both from improvement of moderately active colitis and from fewer flares of remission/mildly active colitis . |
| 11 | Samuel Bamford , the Lancashire weaver , has plenty to say of both serious romance and of dalliance in his youth at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Over the years , the picture is one of both remarkable growth and of entrenched class inequalities . |
| 13 | The subsidence on the surface had increased to an area of about 2 acres and to between 40 feet and 50 feet deep . |
| 14 | Another use of intonation connected with the focussing of attention is intonational subordination ; we can signal that a particular tone-unit is of comparatively low importance and as a result give correspondingly greater importance to adjacent tone-units . |
| 15 | They consist of roughly circular depressions and of more elongated depressions , and are radar-dark . |
| 16 | While the ideology is appropriate , it enables choices to be made on the basis of far less analysis and with much greater urgency , which certainly seems to be a move in the right direction , even if the choice made is not always the best one in the circumstances . |
| 17 | There was a buffet across the top of which was ranged a set of blue and white plates of equally antique origin and in the middle of the table stood a Georgian silver chafing dish . |
| 18 | Close to its crest lies an outcrop of particularly fine shales and in these some of the most perfectly preserved fossils in the world have been discovered . |
| 19 | Meanwhile his brother Ollokot , of even larger build and with an unquenchable thirst for life , led buffalo-hunting expeditions to the far off Blackfoot lands . |
| 20 | The commission believes the scheme will have a profoundly detrimental effect on the town , which it describes as of quite extraordinary quality and of exceptional architectural and historic interest . |
| 21 | Playing at an altitude of over 5,000 feet and in humid conditions , Canada introduced only two new caps , B.C. no.8 Colin McKenzie and Scott MacKinnon , the Ontario wing who joined flanker Gord to give Canada its first instance of brothers appearing together in the same international side . |
| 22 | Amnesty International , the human rights organization , issued a report on Jan. 22 accusing the security forces of responsibility for the deaths of over 1,500 civilians and for the arrest and detention of a further 300 in the period since the Sept. 30 coup . |
| 23 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 24 | The reliquary was a fine specimen of that type of art and of very good quality and in fine condition . |
| 25 | The forces produced in the individual on such occasions , in what Jung ( 1964 ) calls a ‘ journey to individuation ’ , manifest themselves in a number of very persuasive ways and in this case led to some radical reassessments of the existing moral , philosophic , political , and aesthetic order . |
| 26 | For them " the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " had been definitively expressed over a thousand years previously in the way of life and teaching of Jesus Christ in Palestine , in his death at the hands of violently destructive men and in his restoration in life with the source of all being , God . |
| 27 | Thick with mountains , forests and lakes , it is an area of truly spectacular scenery and with your included car you can really get to know the whole region , discover its traditions , its unspoilt beauty and its easy , unhurried pace . |