Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became apparent to them that the Masai did not wander haphazardly about , ignorantly destroying grazing and oblivious to the control of cattle disease , but had an indigenous system of pasture management and far more understanding of the nature of cattle disease than settlers , and even the Veterinary Department , supposed . |
| 2 | This project is for a one year study into pay determination processes in the UK in manufacturing industry , and in particular to examine the effect of bargaining structure and how this may have changed in the period 1979-1985 . |
| 3 | Loss of viral replication by interferon can lead to a substantial regression of liver disease and probably prolonged survival . |
| 4 | However , patterns of segregation within towns also depend on the ways in which roads and railways have expanded , and on political decisions regarding the location of council housing and more general planning policies . |
| 5 | Included in the package was a generous quantity of lead strip and also some plant fertiliser . |
| 6 | Whilst concentrating on urban women , the research considers the many links between town and countryside , for towns acted both as stimulants of population growth and as important marriage and employment ‘ markets ’ for their hinterlands . |
| 7 | The largest farms have over 2000 acres of hill land and about 200 acres of arable ground . |
| 8 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 9 | Two of these states can be identified with sleep states which show a continuity of development to maturity in the form of REM sleep and deep slow wave sleep . |
| 10 | This body , because it contains fifty thousand million million tons of sodium chloride and similarly massive quantities of other dissolved salts , is undrinkable by most living creatures , but in scores of other ways is central — vital , indeed — to the existence of all life . |
| 11 | Sir : When it comes to supporting the arts , very little seems to have changed since George Farquhar in his Discourse on Comedy described his audience in 1702 as : a pit full of City gentlemen , a gallery full of cits , a hundred ladies of court education and about 200 footmen of nice morality . |
| 12 | Main picture Squaring the circle Below left Ingrid 's Granny Gorie — ‘ the best seamstress I 've ever had ’ — has been an invaluable source of advice Right and below right Orkney 's stark shorelines , wide skies and drifting clouds are echoed in Ingrid 's landscape pattern |
| 13 | A combination of iron contamination and too little inhibitor caused the explosion below , damaging power lines and tanks . |
| 14 | Biopsy trauma is itself a stimulus to the synthesis of eicosanoids , but tissue fragments used for short incubation periods overcome the problems of tissue viability and both mechanical and chemical stimulation of synthesis of leukotriene are well established methods of generation under standardised conditions . |
| 15 | Then , in March 1978 , the Haycocks Committee issued its second report , known popularly as Haycocks II , on The Training of Adult Education and Part-Time Further Education Teachers . |
| 16 | Many governments , most prominent among which was the former Conservative government of Mrs Margaret Thatcher , accepted the logic of the above argument and were thereby persuaded to swallow the bitter pill of demand deflation and abnormally high unemployment rates in exchange for the boon of a sustained fall in the rate of inflation . |
| 17 | The research should contribute both to psychological knowledge , by identifying the structure and content of teenagers ' knowledge of road use and how this knowledge changes as a function of experience ; to the practical business of accident prevention , by identifying what kinds of interventions are most needed in pre-driving years and when these interventions are most likely to be effective . |
| 18 | When governments attempt to control the money supply , therefore , they must seek to control the size of bank deposits and thereby control the amount of bank lending and hence total expenditure in the economy ( aggregate demand ) . |
| 19 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 20 | Burton argued that : ‘ We are choosing an approach when we choose to speak of world society and not international relations . ’ |
| 21 | In Poitou the inhabitants spoke a northern French dialect ; to the south , from Saintonge onwards , the vernacular was Limousin , a dialect of Provençal or Occitan , the language of troubadour poetry and very different from the French of the north , the Langue d'Œuil , as opposed to the Langue d'Oc of the south . |
| 22 | The only area that I 'm saying is in need for careful consideration is that related to risks associated with the possibilities of food poisoning and very high-risk food handling . |
| 23 | Pretty well the entire post-biblical civilian infrastructure of the unhappy country has been smashed , and we hear rather less about the miracles of computer-game warfare and surgically exact bombs winning wars without killing people . |
| 24 | According to our experience the pancreatic blood flow in caerulein induced pancreatitis is significantly reduced already after two hours of caerulein infusion and then this reduction progresses to reach after five hours of infusion about half of the normal flow . |
| 25 | of voting age and not subject to any legal incapacity to vote . |
| 26 | Moreover , changes in technology , notably the end of steam traction and more sophisticated technical aids for drivers , have called into question the exclusive craft character of drivers ' skills . |
| 27 | That night , it was Kümmel , a fresh packet of Gold Flake and about forty quid ( thirty drinking money , ten in another pocket for emergency taxi home or suchlike ) and dressed in my Who Bears Wins sweatshirt and long brown leather jacket , I was ready to roll . |
| 28 | Now whether we would find in our strate if we were to have a strategic sites policy erm whether there 's an issue there that it might let in as it were too much of that kind of land use and not enough of the manufacturing or proper office kind I think is worth kicking around the table . |
| 29 | All the girls who were any sort of discipline problem and virtually all the older women ended up in the workroom . |
| 30 | Langdon 's career as one of the leading land surveyors and map-makers of his time spanned about thirty years , and flourished as landowners were coming to appreciate the value of maps both as tools of estate management and as decorative objects of prestige . |