Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The conference reiterated the importance of technical assistance and of " triangular trade " between eastern Europe and the CIS [ see p. 38730 ] .
2 High standards of technical skill and of ethics , for example , are argued to be necessary because the client can not judge the service he receives .
3 In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance .
4 Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject .
5 First has been research focused upon chronology of landscape change which has ( Butzer , 1974 ; Vita-Finzi , 1969 ) demonstrated how human activity was a pertinent factor influencing the course of alluvial chronology and in Greece Davidson ( 1980a ) has demonstrated that erosion was underway during the Bronze Age but that spatial variations were substantial .
6 Considerable damage was done both by the defenders , who had burned the suburbs before retreating within the walls , and by the Parliamentary troops who wreaked vengeance on the houses of Royalist gentry and upon the hated cathedral .
7 Rigorous control procedures established that it was neither an artefact of nutritional compromise nor of preoperative bowel preparatory protocols .
8 The Unit demonstrates how AEA can respond to problems faced through the everyday use of advanced technologies and by solving problems , grow and develop world markets .
9 This has important implications for current trends in thinking about the role of the family ( and the extended family ) in the occupational system of advanced societies and for certain feminist approaches to the issues of women in the labour market which tend to operate from an essentially middle class paradigm of the individualized career and salary and the consequent marginalization of women in the domestic context .
10 These principles can be applied to energise and bring to life the hard edges of Euclidean geometry and of the drawing board .
11 Mrs Kelsall believed the mothers ' experiences were not usually the result of a lack of professional standards but of basic ignorance among midwives about how deaf people communicate .
12 Yet another complicating factor is that the account given of the generic team 's work with elderly clients is bound to be only a partial exemplification of whatever advantages may be claimed for the generic model , whether of professional practice or of staff development .
13 Among all the books which have survived — and nearly seventy have now been identified — there is not a single volume of the basic works of Patristic theology or of recent scholastic learning , which ( as we have seen ) were conspicuous in the library at Bec , and were to be equally conspicuous at Canterbury after Lanfranc had restored the library .
14 The resulting convention , known as the Hamburg Rules is skewed toward the interests of cargo-shipping nations and against the interests of cargo-carrying nations .
15 The most famous example is the Cathedral at Ani , the capital , now called Erivan ( Yeŕevan ) and under the jurisdiction of the U.S.S.R. This cathedral dates from 1010 and is of cross-in-square design but with longer east and west arms .
16 On the evidence of our multiple regression analysis , partisanship exerted a consistently powerful influence on perceptions of Labour chances and by the end of the campaign it was the only remaining significant influence .
17 He will have the support not only of Labour Members but of all Scottish Members who are genuinely concerned about Scottish education and keen to see it debated properly in the House .
18 In response to economic events and to developments in economic analysis , it has moved , as have other models , to take specific account of financial flows , of monetary developments and of exchange rate changes .
19 The statement agreed that in phase three the new " independent " central bank would be " solely responsible for the conduct of monetary policy and for the defence of the stability of the currency " .
20 but erm , I , I thought it was both yours and Mr contention that through the doctoring of extensible authority and by , because of that doctoring your clients are not alleging that any contracts of insurance or re-insurance simply made on their behalf is unenforceable
21 Two other decrees on March 1 provided the legal framework for the creation of regional authorities and for a " basic law of government " .
22 However , their multiple condensation at the level of the state makes it possible to speak , not just of a set of regional problems but of a general crisis of hegemony .
23 Marxists , too , have been critical of regional policies but for different reasons .
24 He reviews the problems of internal dating , of intraregional correlation , of regional delimitation and of causation against the background of detailed results from a variety of areas proceeding towards a challenging opportunity to examine the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems .
25 Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas .
26 Scheduled to last for two months , the dialogue was intended to present proposals on the direct election of regional parliaments and on the fiscal competencies of the francophone and Flemish executives .
27 On assumption of power labour attempted to implement a programme of progressive reform but in pursuit of this adopted methods that were seen by opponents to be an open challenge to representative democracy .
28 The columns and capitals are a mixture of genuine Visigothic versions of Corinthian capitals and of original antique capitals and columns taken from Roman building in the area ( 258 and 393 ) .
29 To read and write , to borrow books and debate , to study the sciences and learn a foreign tongue — all these were so many steps not of economic advancement but of human dignity .
30 All these cities have continued as centres of wealth , but they also show varying signs of relative decline in terms of economic activity and of population movements .
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