Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal forms of glaciated mountains are accepted by all as due to ice erosion and no one would seriously suggest that such features as corries , glacial troughs and overdeepened basins are still being formed . |
| 2 | THE PRIVATE PASSIONS OF PUBLIC FIGURES are a constant source of fascination to readers of the tabloid press and to students of literary biography alike . |
| 3 | It is the greyed inconsequence of peripheral events . |
| 4 | Large-scale maps can incorporate data obtained by dense sampling of small areas , whereas small-scale maps of offshore areas reflect the much lower sampling density possible is such areas . |
| 5 | Classroom talk , despite the apparent conversational liveliness of many classrooms , could be shown on closer examination to be somewhat impoverished and unchallenging , with a general tendency to discourage children from asking their own questions and thinking things out for themselves , and a lack of informative feedback . |
| 6 | They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences . |
| 7 | In the circumstances of the rapid impoverishment of most people and the simultaneous existence of political freedoms , the revival of communist and socialist movements and parties as a legal opposition to the existing regime was inevitable . |
| 8 | An array of medieval and Renaissance furniture , English paintings and portraits , English silver , French wallpaper , the extraordinarily rich assemblage of sixteenth-century paintings , both ‘ official ’ art of the Salons and the Impressionists . |
| 9 | Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street . |
| 10 | It is therefore still important to examine the role of Ac-ASA in any in vitro experiment desiend to test the mechanism of action of 5-ASA and to bear in mind the differential absorption of these drugs when an intact cell system is used . |
| 11 | The major research instrument used will be a detailed interview survey of approximately fifty matched pairs of small firms making similar products , drawn from five peripheral regions and matched with the non-assisted area — East Anglia . |
| 12 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 13 | Aunt Molly is dressed in an overstuffed pouch of white feathers , with yellow leggings , plastic claws tied around each high-heeled slipper , and a red coxcomb wobbling on her head . |
| 14 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Policy choices will always be made within a relatively narrow spectrum of possible options . |
| 16 | Modern interpretation of elite theories seek to show either that key policy offices are held by people from a narrow spectrum of social origins , or that a limited number of people , characterized by close links with one another , dominate decision-making roles . |
| 17 | The foregoing remarks apply directly to some of the inflationary accounts of voluntary obligations and of consent , and have to be adapted to meet the challenge presented by others . |
| 18 | In this chapter I shall consider in more detail what is involved in this task , how context acts upon grammar so that the specific meanings of particular expressions are realized and communicative outcomes brought about . |
| 19 | Under this leadership over the past decade the company has grown from being an essentially UK woodworm and pest control company , to an international enterprise with a broad base of environmental services in every major world economy . |
| 20 | The pyramid system means that the operating unit is at the sharp end of action and is supported by a very broad base of other services which in turn are supported by others all the way down to the base of the pyramid . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the dollar was the principal reserve asset , and was likely to remain so for as long as the rest of the world accepted dollars and the monetary authorities of individual countries did not exert their option of exchanging dollars for gold . |
| 22 | We can overcome this by employing the simultaneous absorption of two photons or by using a molecular compound containing the element of interest , although both these methods have certain drawbacks . |
| 23 | ‘ Being a solicitor in local government with broad experience of all areas of council work is an excellent training for a future manager in any sector , but more particularly a much needed resource in local government in the future . |
| 24 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 25 | For many years , with a total income of two pounds and ten shillings , my mother had to provide all . |
| 26 | Basic provision of shelter , heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants . |
| 27 | Dr O'Reilly has exceptional marketing experience and talents which when brought to bear on the solid foundations of these businesses should help create a new level of profitability . ’ |
| 28 | When the political institutions of colonial dependencies are described as interacting with their environments , the ‘ environment ’ tends to be described in terms of culture rather than class . |
| 29 | It implies , of course , that as long as they have the right kind of causal relations , other machines , apart from brains , can possess mentality ; and it also implies that the study of artificial intelligence and computational modelling is the royal road to understanding mentality . |
| 30 | This is a charming small town , or perhaps overgrown village , with just the right kind of simple hotels to tempt you to stop off here . |