Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Children 's Society denounced the proposals , which could cost up to £75 million , as a ‘ knee jerk reaction ’ given figures suggesting the number of persistent young offenders could be as low as 100 . |
| 2 | In order to streamline the decision-making council , the number of regional central banks would be reduced from the current figure of 11 to nine , with only Saxony among the five east German states having its own bank and some smaller west German Länder merging their regional banks with those of other states . |
| 3 | And the meeting of the ACTS ' Central Council has recently had a report from its local and regional unity er committee proposing that a network of regional ecumenical teams should be established throughout Scotland to further the cooperation and joint commitment of congregations and church members in each area . |
| 4 | Although be knew that this happens , he did not think it plausible that all differences between cells could be caused in this way , because he could not see how a sufficient number of specific external stimuli could be brought to bear during development . |
| 5 | This sort of experiment shows however that with materials of this character one can not really distinguish between practical strength and brittleness so that the introduction of weak internal surfaces can be regarded as raising the strength . |
| 6 | One has to specify what class of possible curved spaces should be included in the sum over histories . |
| 7 | This retractive action of linear uncrosslinked polymers can be observed if the time interval between extension and release is short , but if the stress is maintained for some time , then a relaxation process takes place allowing the tension to decay eventually to zero . |
| 8 | Orthographic knowledge would combine with extracted visual information to allow only one completion , and so the identification of further visual features would be redundant . |
| 9 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 10 | This is perhaps the result of a deliberately indifferent attitude by the composer , who says that the piece can be played by most instruments as a solo , or by groups of instruments as ensembles ; that the general tempo can be between = 42 and 132 , the duration between four and twelve minutes ; and that the ordering of different melodic strands can be quite haphazard . |
| 11 | In all three cases , a minimum of 30 genetic steps must be taken . |
| 12 | The political involvements of Free Presbyterian ministers can be described as follows . |
| 13 | The analysis of particle sizes of coarse unconsolidated sediments may be achieved through direct measurement of individual pebbles . |
| 14 | In order to examine document architectures , the example of English legal statutes will be used in this paper . |
| 15 | A comprehensive survey of British local authorities will be complemented by detailed case studies . |
| 16 | Over half the issues of British public libraries can be ascribed to recreational reading , although — as will be seen — public libraries are rarely arranged to suit the recreational approach . |
| 17 | Recent evidence indicates that the prevalence of NSAID related ulcers is higher in those infected with H pylori ( which emphasises the need for accurate diagnosis of this infection in these patients ) and that the specificity of some serological tests can be influenced by NSAID . |
| 18 | While the development of some large oilfields could be helped by the changes , smaller finds could be hit by the cost of drilling rising fourfold through the loss of tax relief . |
| 19 | The differences between our results and those of some published studies may be partly explained by variations in design and analysis . |
| 20 | On Monday , the results of 22 national competitions will be phoned to New York to find the heaviest pumpkin in the world . |
| 21 | The number of extravagant local authorities would be more than 100 . |
| 22 | There is still disagreement as to the extent to which the study of contemporary present-day phenomena can be a key towards understanding similar phenomena in the remote past . |
| 23 | While an analysis of individual psychological traits may be important in treating an individual user , these can only help to explain why that given individual ‘ got hooked ’ . |
| 24 | His personal failure was for two reasons : firstly , that the metamorphosis from the Left-wing backbencher with a CND badge and a baggage of similar lost causes could be seen a mile off . |
| 25 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 26 | The accessing of such international databases can be a critical aspect of a company 's data communication activities , and indeed its commercial operations . |
| 27 | The solution of such limited problems might be seen as a triumph of " method " as much as a source of new knowledge . |
| 28 | Purchase of such outstanding dogs must be appreciated by the American Rottweiler enthusiast of today . |
| 29 | 8.5 If at any time fails to deliver the Licensed Software to in such a way that is unable to fulfil any order , the value of such lost orders may be counted towards any minimum order requirement which may have been agreed . |
| 30 | Some details of the mechanisms of dispersal of such imported goods can be obtained by a more detailed examination of their distributions . |