Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Issues concerning denial and/or the differential interpretations of events and their implications were evident throughout the study . |
| 2 | In many cases the scope of a project has to be scaled down because of the restricted data available and/or the restricted resources of the research worker . |
| 3 | THIS REGIMENT BELIEVES IN ORDER , DISCIPLINE & THE STRICTEST CODES OF CONDUCT , SO YOU WO N'T BE HERE LONG ’ , |
| 4 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 5 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 6 | The next thing to check is whether there is a build-up within the radiator of air or the gaseous by-products of corrosion in the system . |
| 7 | Next , check whether there is a build-up within the radiator air or the gaseous by-products of corrosion . |
| 8 | Hemmed in by a board school , a gasworks , a depot for Bass ale , and the neighbouring St Pancras Station , King 's Cross Goods Station was proclaimed by its retired outdoor Goods Manager to be in appearance ‘ prosaic enough — you ca n't go into ecstasies over the beauty of its situation or the classic lines of its architecture ’ . |
| 9 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Given this situation , which persisted into 1922 and beyond , what hope was there for Gosplan to construct a carefully planned economy and society under any kind of political conditions , whether those of War Communism , NEP , or the Five-Year plans of the future ? |
| 11 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , no one can read through the hundreds of advertisements in the provincial press for private schools , or the numerous handbooks on the care and education of children , or the occasional prospectuses of academies that have survived , without realizing that the emphasis on education had changed . |
| 13 | Nowhere were teachers invited to note that ‘ good ’ implies questions and judgements of value , and that the whole issue of good practice might raise controversial yet essential questions about the claims made for particular approaches , the arguments and evidence for and against them , the educational values they represented , or the practical problems of implementing them . |
| 14 | focusing on difficulties in parenting , family relationships or the practical tasks of daily living |
| 15 | This will still leave the nitrogen fixing roots of beans or the deep roots of chicory to be chopped up as the ground is cultivated . |
| 16 | The phenomenon of light scattering by small particles is familiar to us all ; the blue colour of the sky or the varied colours of a sunset , the poor penetration of car headlights in a fog is caused by water droplets scattering the light , and the obvious presence of dust in a sunbeam or the Tyndall effect in an irradiated colloidal solution are further examples of this effect . |
| 17 | Experience the rugged wildness of Newtondale or the varied habitats of Dalby . |
| 18 | For some groups , there are also common secondary impairments caused either by the original impairment , or the long-term effects of medical treatment or rehabilitation . |
| 19 | You can back one party or another to win the election , or bet on men arriving from outer space , without having to make any contribution to the costs of the election campaign or the necessary expenses of the men from outer space . |
| 20 | Since we see no reason to treat the other modals or the other uses of could , would or will any differently as regards this aspect of their meaning , we propose therefore that both the modals and the infinitive which follows them express potentialities . |
| 21 | ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris . |
| 22 | It is difficult , therefore , to justify the role of the Commissioner on the grounds of the extent of , or the serious consequences of , abuse of union power . |
| 23 | When , as king , Richard twice regranted the stewardships held by Hastings in the duchy , neither grant included Ollerton or the associated manors of Plumtree and Risley . |
| 24 | When , as king , Richard twice regranted the stewardships held by Hastings in the duchy , neither grant included Ollerton or the associated manors of Plumtree and Risley . |
| 25 | It was also the anticipation of being hit that was worrying ; would it be a punch in the guts , or the scarred knuckles of a Spaniard 's fist in the eye ? |
| 26 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 27 | The future state can be defined as the vision for the organization or the strategic objectives of the change . |
| 28 | This latter is a piece of independent evidence , which is distinct from the actions , such as masturbation or thumb-sucking or the hysterical symptoms of neurotics , which are to be explained by reference to the concept of sexual instincts . |
| 29 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 30 | There is , admittedly , a long tradition both in linguistics and in literary studies of analysing the works of individual writers , particularly literary writers , but relatively little work has been done on such areas of text studies as the conventions of non-literary writing within a community or the preferred patterns of organization in different types of discourse . |