Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A medicine trolley squeaked rodently in the hall outside , where other out-patients sat in clumps of tubular steel chairs neatly arranged according to their various diseases . |
| 2 | The unwary climber is dive-bombed by irate parent birds as speckled chicks freeze to stillness behind clumps of raffia-like moor grass . |
| 3 | This might happen for some clumps of primordial germ cells are known to form intercellular bridges so that they exist as a syncytium ( fused cells , sharing several nuclei ) . |
| 4 | There were small clumps of purple china roses in the continental style , heavy and sharp enough to be used as weapons ; wreaths of laurel , and hellebore flowers in white plastic with glittered stamens . |
| 5 | The large clumps of tufted hair grass Deschampsia caespitosa or soft brome grass Bromius mollis around the edges of woods or in rough meadows are veritable insect palaces . |
| 6 | We camped on the edge of the moorland among magnificent red-tasselled hagenia trees and clumps of yellow flowering St John 's wort ; above us the mountain was covered with giant heath ten feet and more in height . |
| 7 | Government financial support is , therefore , primarily tailored to providing incentives to the private sector by reducing the costs and risks of inner city investment . |
| 8 | It is also relevant that the ability of families to deal with risks of early childhood morbidity is in good measure a matter of social and economic conditions ( see e.g. Wray , 1971 ) . |
| 9 | And the other condition we have n't mentioned is er th th th the risks of coronary artery disease and strokes which actually do , are the main cause of death o , in Scottish women ! |
| 10 | For smokers who are exposed to such substances as asbestos , their risks of developing lung cancer tend to multiply together and become very large . |
| 11 | Most of us have been warned about the health risks of high blood pressure ( hypertension ) but few people are aware that in several European countries the opposite condition of low blood pressure ( hypotension ) is regarded as a medical problem . |
| 12 | There must also be detailed assessments of the reliability of equipment and the risks of particular accident sequences using ‘ event tree ’ analysis . |
| 13 | The risks of competitive bidding need to be included in the analysis when it is well-known that genuine bids are difficult to detect , so that large multinationals can make ‘ loss-leader ’ bids to exclude local firms , as in the case of refuse collection in the United States , and ‘ performance contractors ’ for US school districts can leak ‘ their ’ students the examination questions to improve the firm 's success rate ( R. Goodwin 1982 ) . |
| 14 | They are the only two post-war premiers to have had no time for the black arts of political news management and personal public relations . |
| 15 | What are the characteristics of addictive family disease ? |
| 16 | So the key issue here is really the fundamental one involved in the dispute between Keynes and the classical economists : is it adequate to regard certain superficial characteristics of existing wage contracts as given when analysing the consequences of alternative monetary and fiscal regimes ? |
| 17 | Many repealers and regulationists shared a common culture and held similar positions on class and social behaviour — one of the characteristics of mid-Victorian consensus politics . |
| 18 | One of the most salient characteristics of present-day Belfast vernacular is the rule for raising /a/ to [ ae , Ε ] before the three velar consonants /k , g , ng/ ( these consonants are themselves normally fronted to some degree ) . |
| 19 | All of which lends circumstantial weight to the idea that oncogenes may be activated by stripping them of their methyl groups — and also explains the common observation that tumour cells may sometimes express inappropriately characteristics of other tissue cells . |
| 20 | These features of family life — which it should be re-emphasized are indicators of , rather than the reasons for , problems — include the age and maturity of the parents , burdens carried by a family , consistency and change in the lives of children , dynamics and support within the family , and the experiences and characteristics of individual family members . |
| 21 | WIRS could also be used to examine some of the characteristics of private sector establishments using fixed-term contract and agency workers . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there are two recurring characteristics of certain copper mines : the use of firesetting and pebble-stone hammers . |
| 23 | Social and cognitive characteristics of young computer users |
| 24 | Racketeering and syndicate crime have been invaluable to the government in that the persons and organisations involved develop the characteristics of legitimate business men . |
| 25 | The development of mathematical models to represent the uncertainty characteristics of digital map databases ; |
| 26 | Two particular characteristics of regional building style were the tall towers — either for churches or civic buildings — and the development of the rib vault which , in Italy , was unusual . |
| 27 | Perry ( 1982 ) has provided a useful detailed study of the employment characteristics of small manufacturing businesses in Cornwall , classified according to whether they are new starts or movers , and exogenous or indigenous firms . |
| 28 | Characteristics of human search procedures |
| 29 | The first component , the basic rock particle , can be large like sand and grit or microscopically small like the individual grains of clay , thereby imparting respectively much of the basic behavioural characteristics of different soil types : light and quickly draining , heavy , sticky and liable to waterlogging , or a happy medium in between . |
| 30 | The characteristics of optical fibre change with temperature , sufficiently to change the required magnetic field period . |