Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a chance of winning one of these fabulous pairs of boots all you have to do is find the following eight words in the word square : LINE 7 , GORETEX , GT RIFT , RAIDER , PANDA , RANGER , ROVER and LADY GT . |
| 2 | It may be , for example , that youngsters will pick up from this programme some hint of the rich variety of occupations all of which are often hidden under the umbrella heading of science . |
| 3 | There is also a formal element of crime detection , although in the normal course of events all they encounter is shoplifting and parking offences . |
| 4 | ‘ In the normal course of events these things take months . |
| 5 | ‘ In the normal course of events these things take time under French law , and they 're likely to take even longer in this case because he refuses to make any move whatever until you are actually there — in France . ’ |
| 6 | In the normal course of events this would have been ‘ tidied up ’ — wiped out as part of the scheme and conveniently buried . |
| 7 | Recent attempts to subdivide the largely homogeneous psammites of the Grampian Group into shallow- and deep-water facies are supported in part by the regional distributions of elements such as cobalt and vanadium . |
| 8 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 9 | Writing in 1972 , McGregor suggested that : ‘ the last two decades have witnessed the cumulative removal of restraints both of custom and law upon behaviour , and upon their public portrayal in print or in the visual arts ’ . |
| 10 | I know you appear in programmes about race relations from time to time , but you 're not one of the usual old gang of faces that everyone 's sick of . |
| 11 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 12 | These sheets lined different areas of the tomb and separated different groups of offerings such as ceramic vessels , bronze implements , llama limbs and shell beads . |
| 13 | The involvement of influential people , including many heterosexuals , in all areas of public life ; the high visibility of figures such as Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman ; the size and nature of the demonstrations and direct actions made it great television material . |
| 14 | Moreover , there are difficulties in knowing how to relate different sorts of probabilities such as those which concern the degree of credit to be given to a judgement and those which are of a statistical nature . |
| 15 | Because company law fails to differentiate in any consistent fashion between these different sorts of companies all are treated as regulated by the traditional legal framework which we have been examining . |
| 16 | This undermines any attempt at individualised quality care since the workforce can not assimilate the individual needs , likes and dislikes of a different group of patients each time they come on duty . |
| 17 | The increasingly high profile of problems such as the greenhouse effect , the hole in the ozone layer , agricultural pollution and the state of Britain 's waterways has pushed the environment to the top of the political agenda , and the government is keen to be seen responding . |
| 18 | This model demonstrated how parental expectations , teachers ' expectations and the needs of the labour market for different kinds of workers all reinforced one another . |
| 19 | Scotland had papers like the The Scotsman and Glasgow Herald that were too Scottish to be ‘ national ’ yet were of a quality that depressed the Scottish sales of papers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph . |
| 20 | As a result , the report claims , dangerously high levels of pollutants such as dioxins , heavy metals , acids and sulphur are being released into the air above major cities . |
| 21 | Tell-tale themes — which emerge in repeated use of phrases such as , in the case of a motivated talent for management , ‘ I took care of … organised … got people together ’ — can be added up to reveal the interviewee 's motivational pattern . |
| 22 | Complimentary use of bicycles all season . |
| 23 | One is reminded , in fact , of a retrospectively assembled collection of writings such as Reinhard Strohm 's Essays on Handel and Italian opera . |
| 24 | Once you have an outline of your media relations programme worked out , and preferably written down , you will be ready to start thinking about the detailed use of tools such as media lists , press releases , competitions , press receptions , workshops , visits and special events . |
| 25 | From this viewpoint , we are reminded that the complexity and clear definition of designs such as those of Woodchester , Barton and Stonesfield , would have been hard to maintain without the use of some kind of illustration . |
| 26 | Because of a steep flight of steps this is not easily negotiated by bicycle . |
| 27 | An extensive theoretical treatment of issues such as those covered in section 4.3 is Sos ( 1986 ) , but see in addition the debate between Tan , Finsinger and Vogelsang , and others in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for February 1985 . |
| 28 | First , there has been criticism of the role of the ‘ market ’ in the theoretical position of writers such as Clarke . |
| 29 | Section 6.5 closed with a description of the simulation of a large , complex system , namely , the world viewed as an integrated and interrelated set of elements such as population , resources , land , capital and pollution . |
| 30 | The researchers at Southampton use variants of the Modified Chemical Vapour deposition technique that was developed mainly in-house to produce a number of different types of fibres such as polarising , helical core and twin core , along with a range of single and multimode silica fibres for telecommunications , sensing and medical applications . |