Example sentences of "[adj] of [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 2 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 3 | Notes are so often hard to understand , even for the person who wrote them , and yet they should be the most transparently clear of all means of communication . |
| 4 | Any legislation " submitted by individual legislative council members " ( effectively private members ' bills ) would require the endorsement of " more than half of two groups of members , one selected by the functioning organizations and the other by various constituencies and by the election committee " . |
| 5 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 6 | About half of all children of school age were in attendance at elementary schools by 1940 Beyond the elementary stage private schools managed by Koreans or by foreign missionaries were prevalent . |
| 7 | The word fabliau itself is found as a label in roughly half of this group of texts . |
| 8 | The mean coefficient of variation of 12 of these series of repeated measurements was 18% . |
| 9 | Farrar was free of two taboos of our own time : the taboo on affection and the taboo on the discussion of death . |
| 10 | My father , as I say , came of a generation mercifully free of such confusions of our professional values . |
| 11 | Piaroaland is almost free of all forms of physical violence , a place where children , teenagers , and adults alike never express anger through physical means . |
| 12 | News and information programmes should be free of all forms of discrimination and these programmes should be accessible free of charge to all . |
| 13 | I assure you I am quite free of all entanglements of that kind at the moment . |
| 14 | After twelve months five of these patients were free of all symptoms of angina while the other three found that their spasms were less frequent and less severe . |
| 15 | If you do use them , make sure that your lashes are free of all traces of make-up . |
| 16 | The diabetics chosen for this study were free of clinical evidence of vascular disease , which suggests that the platelet abnormalities in this diabetic group were due to the diabetic state ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | I went into my bed and slept free of any kind of consciousness . |
| 18 | Under the influence of researchers in America such as Paul Lazarsfeld ( 1901–70 ) , greater emphasis was put on the need for proof and on the importance of data being as objective as possible , i.e. that it should be free of any influence of the individual researcher who happened to collect it . |
| 19 | Even the pinnacle of his success to date was free of any taint of pandering : compare ‘ Purple Rain' with Michael Jackson 's ‘ Beat It ’ , where Eddie Van Halen was dropped plum in the middle as a calculated bid for MTV exposure and the Middle American AOR heartland . |
| 20 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 21 | It was suggested that the type of work undertaken by the centres should be restricted but that they should be free of those rules of professional etiquette ( e.g. advertising and touting for business ) which would inhibit their work . |
| 22 | There are other dangers , but a garden that is free of thorny shrubs of thorny shrubs , spiky perennials and tempting berries may also be devoid of birds , insects , form and texture ; denying the very stimulus that could woo a young mind into contemplating the magic of its surroundings . |
| 23 | When a governmental official in a Third World country recommends ( under the influence of a bribe ) that his country purchase the more expensive but less adequate of two types of aircraft , then the extra millions of dollars will be found from the taxes sweated out of the country 's impoverished citizens . |
| 24 | For instance , some of those members of the WPGET who went to support their colleagues should have thought twice about attending clubhouse functions in shorts and T-shirts . |
| 25 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 26 | An extra bonus is that you will be able to get rid of some of those oddments of yarn which clutter up the loft . |
| 27 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
| 28 | The advocates of reorganisation and nationalisation in the 1930s and 1940s had claimed there were potentially large gains in efficiency in distribution , and , while their forecasts were probably exaggerated , the new Area Boards were able to reap some of these advantages of larger-scale distribution and more centralised management . |
| 29 | As far as the male is concerned , this might not matter too much were it not for the fact that some of these cases of NSU or ‘ pus cells in the urethra ’ may very well not be manifestations of infection . |
| 30 | In certain societies , formal education may attempt to make explicit and controlled some of these processes of learning , and it is no coincidence that Bourdieu is otherwise known as a writer on the French educational system ( e.g. Bourdieu and Passeron 1977 ; 1979 ) . |