Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even today , however , the older idea still prevails on a vote by a show of hands , when the common law rule is that each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares held ; a rule which , although it can be altered by the constitution , is normally maintained , if only because the number of a human being 's hands can not be more than two . |
| 32 | ADT Healthquest is a serious and vital campaign designed to make individuals and industry aware of the benefits of active , healthy living . ’ |
| 33 | Concern with the disincentive effects of taxation has , however , been a continual theme during the whole period covered by this study irrespective of the prevalent rates of taxation or the level of public expenditure . |
| 34 | The train eased forward , the driver unaware of the panic . |
| 35 | The harmonic effect is dissonant , but not unpleasantly so , and the absence of chromaticism means that a background feeling of unity typical of the diatonic system is retained : |
| 36 | Elizabeth looked up and saw a brown uniform and a friendly face , framed in the lovely black hair typical of the Maltese . |
| 37 | ‘ He either knew what was happening to the economy at the last election and lied or he was living in a fool 's paradise unaware of the damage he was doing . ’ |
| 38 | In the opening stage of their affair she could not keep her column free of the subject of her lover , even indirectly . |
| 39 | I used to go to work fearful of the dialogue I was putting on the screen . |
| 40 | It is an overstatement typical of the worst type of ‘ leap of faith ’ and can not be allowed to pass . |
| 41 | Reynolds was a great exponent of the idealized portrait typical of the day . |
| 42 | After three weeks ’ hard pounding , both administered and received , the melancholy of the Conservative campaign ‘ A-team ’ suddenly lifted and journalists attending their morning news conference were treated to a double act worthy of The Two Ronnies . |
| 43 | It was considerably less straight than that of Sarazen as it clattered into the trees on the right but nevertheless rebounded on to the fairway short of the bunker from where he managed a four . |
| 44 | The emphasis is added here ; but even more emphatic was the JCS opinion that , in the event of an overt attack by organized Chinese communist forces in Indo-China , the US should not permit itself to become engaged in a general war with communist China although assistance short of the actual employment of US military forces should be provided . |
| 45 | Simon Long adds from Beijing : China seems to be retreating into a diplomatic posture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution , at odds with both Washington and Moscow , and firing frequent broadsides against all-comers for alleged interference in its internal affairs . |
| 46 | Simon Long adds from Beijing : China seems to be retreating into a diplomatic posture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution , at odds with both Washington and Moscow , and firing frequent broadsides against all-comers for alleged interference in its internal affairs . |
| 47 | A young Italian nobleman had already summed up the dismay felt by liberal Catholics in 1906 when he wrote , in a famous letter , ‘ Since the death of Pope Leo the Roman Curia has assumed towards the world of thought a reactionary attitude reminiscent of the days of Pius IX , when the Church was at war with everything and everybody . ’ |
| 48 | It was a scene reminiscent of the ‘ rubber stamp ’ meetings of the old Eastern bloc politburos . |
| 49 | It is a scene reminiscent of the palaeolithic cave paintings and the much later Hodening and Horn dancing which survived until recent times , but today only at Abbotts Bromley , Staffs . |
| 50 | A passage reminiscent of the Buddha 's final word to Ananda . |
| 51 | But I think it is important to keep the full committee abreast of the activities of the sub-committee . |
| 52 | All this will have to be conducted against a timescale mindful of the second Danish referendum on 18 May and a likely post-treaty intergovernmental conference in the summer . |
| 53 | In patients with raised serum aminotransferase concentrations , 91–100% of cases detected as positive on second generation immunoassays are confirmed by recombinant immunoblot assay irrespective of the ratio . |
| 54 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 55 | In other words , a large proportion of the elderly receiving supplementary benefit are elderly women living alone and apart from those belonging to the very top socio-economic group , such women may be in receipt of supplementary benefit irrespective of the socio economic background of themselves or their deceased husbands . |
| 56 | There may arise circumstances in which a doctor may use a form of treatment for his patient 's benefit aware of the fact that it may have the secondary effect of accelerating ( or run the risk of accelerating ) the patient 's death . |
| 57 | Was the RHA aware of the conclusions of the Camden and Islington working party on Friern , that there should be new buildings for the old long-stay population on the Friern site , and that the hospital should be developed as a specialist psychogeriatric and teaching service ? |
| 58 | He may , however , serve a counter-notice in response to a landlord 's notice under s25 of that Act irrespective of the length of his tenancy . |
| 59 | Certain essential services such as health and education should be available from the public sector irrespective of the citizen 's means . |
| 60 | I do get a bit sick of the way they keep sending me scripts to make funny . |