Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers . |
| 2 | To the east and back of the house there were lines of swordplants and small clumps of bushes with vivid scarlet and yellow flowers . |
| 3 | During the 1980s Margaret Boushel , Claire Debenham , Lisa Dresner and Anna Gorbach worked in the London borough of Islington within social services for pre-school children . |
| 4 | Even the London Docklands Development Corporation ( arguably the least local of the boards ) has been involved in negotiations with the London Borough of Newham over low-cost housing and has resisted proposals from developers to utilize land allocated for such housing for other purposes . |
| 5 | On his way to Wallsend , will my right hon. Friend visit the north-west of the United Kingdom , and the borough of Macclesfield in particular ? |
| 6 | There are many other forms of cruelty , e.g. the catching and export of monkeys for medical and other experiments when they should be purpose bred in zoos . |
| 7 | Conservative MEP Caroline Jackson ( Wiltshire ) said the European Democratic Group fully supported moves toward a ban on export of waste for final disposal , but felt that it was vital to allow continued exports for further use — recovery or recycling — to OECD countries . |
| 8 | This inspired British legislation to prevent the emigration of skilled workers and ( later ) the export of machinery to other countries . |
| 9 | However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C . |
| 10 | The eye begins eventually to see pockets and spaces within the greys , the whites , the after-images of after-images of vibrant , sumptuous colour : the bands then begin to buckle and warp , blend into each other ; a kind of visual melt-down occurs as the retina tries to encompass this searing tension . |
| 11 | Although the risks of coelocentesis in continuing pregnancies remain to be assessed , the procedure may be safer than early amniocentesis , which involves the removal of a large proportion of amniotic fluid with a potential adverse effect on fetal pulmonary development . |
| 12 | A similar difference in relative risks of death from coronary heart disease ( 3.71 ) and admission to hospital ( 1.46 ) was seen among those who had no teeth . |
| 13 | The existing brick bungalow , to the north of the chapel , which constituted the lunatic wards in the 1916 plan should , they suggested , be adapted for the isolation of cases of puerperal fever ( a general term including ‘ the several affections which may occur as a direct result of childbirth ’ ) . |
| 14 | We have developed a simple , rapid and cheap method for the isolation of DNA from various sources by a further development of the silica binding method of Boom et al. |
| 15 | Schumpeter ( 1934 , 1939 ) explained the bunching of innovations which generated long-waves by the characteristics of entrepreneurs as industrial leaders . |
| 16 | ‘ DIRECTIONAL characteristics of atmospherics at high frequency ’ runs the title of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers just 50 years ago . |
| 17 | Although Ruellan ( 1971 ) distinguished between those researchers who attach great importance to the geomorphological processes of erosion and deposition ( allochthonists ) and those who attribute the major characteristics of soils to pedological processes ( autochthonists ) , Gerrard ( 1981 ) in his treatment of soils and geomorphology argues that soils are the results of the interaction of both sets of processes . |
| 18 | Demographic and social characteristics of adults with cystic fibrosis in the United Kingdom |
| 19 | Our study aimed to describe the social and demographic characteristics of adults with cystic fibrosis in the United Kingdom and the medical care they receive and to provide baseline data from which the impact of changes recently introduced into the National Health Service can be assessed . |
| 20 | The primary outcome of the project will be a descriptive account of the employment characteristics of establishments in British industry , which can be compared with the situation recorded by the 1980 survey , but it is also hoped to consider the findings in the context of current debates about labour market segmentation . |
| 21 | We therefore decided to concentrate our analysis of the characteristics of users of temporary workers on private sector establishments . |
| 22 | It will be amalgamated with information obtained from others to provide a complete statistical picture of the characteristics of people in particular occupations . |
| 23 | It remains , however , to be considered whether it would be possible to simulate the characteristics of nationhood at federal level by establishing there the appropriate mechanisms . |
| 24 | The use of nicknames to identify individuals arose in England in Anglo-Saxon times ( at the latest ) — there are the cases of Harold Bluetooth , Svegn Forkbeard , Eadmund Ironside , all highlighting personal characteristics of men with common names . |
| 25 | Table III shows the characteristics of patients with gastric metaplasia ; although there were relatively fewer cases of metaplasia in patients taking NSAIDs , the differences were not statistically significant . |
| 26 | The previous section outlines some of the key characteristics of UDCs in general , and the MDC and LDDC in particular . |
| 27 | The many successes in the hey-day of malaria eradication programmes are a witness to this , and the most effective method of controlling the vector was undoubtedly the spraying of houses with residual insecticides . |
| 28 | Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all . |
| 29 | Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but |
| 30 | It also has an ensuite bathroom facility , with all sorts of things in little sealed packets for you to take home for your children . |