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

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1 The arrogance of Bolshevik-inspired youth towards the patriarchal rural community also transpires from other criticisms directed against younger visitors .
2 In doing this it has also extended the role of hierarchical coordination in the overall process of running the country .
3 Let me illustrate this pattern of hierarchical layering with the case of two divisions of Corporation X , which has 32,000 employees and annual sales of $7 billion .
4 Marianne Farningham , religious journalist , learnt her faith from a papermaker Baptist grandfather , ‘ a preacher of great force ’ , who would sit ‘ in our kitchen , talking with some friend , each smoking a long clay pipe , and with a glass of home-brewed beer on the table ’ , debating ‘ on high themes , of Calvinistic doctrine and the heresies of Arminianism . ’
5 This was not to deny the importance of technical education for the prospective tradesman , but he would be ‘ unsafe ’ unless this was supplemented by a training which allowed him ‘ to adapt himself to new conditions ’ .
6 But it is worth noting also that Scotland has had a relatively strong tradition of technical education for the last century , in contrast to the rather patchy developments south of the border ( Argles 1964 ) .
7 We are co-operating with three European business schools ( ESC Lyons , Henley Management College and ESADE , Barcelona ) to develop the International Management Institute of St Petersburg , and do not consider that the Community is ‘ making a hash ’ of technical assistance to the ex-Soviet Union .
8 For example , shortage of technical assistance in the laboratories and lack of funds for equipment are mentioned at intervals throughout the narrative .
9 This may link with the lower average level of technical qualification among the UK chief executive officers .
10 In 1982 , the British Library commissioned a study of ‘ information demand and supply in British industry ’ and following the completion and publication of this report , BL commissioned a further study of the prospective impact of technical change on the demands for information services .
11 In 1985 there were large seminars or workshops on the impact of microprocessors on employment , on telecommunications , the process-equipment industries , the food processing industry , the management of technical change in Japan , the prospective developments in medicial technologies , a large number on changing skill requirements , co-operation in pre-competitive R&D , the future of the UK steel industry , and on the potential impact of technical change on the employability of the less able .
12 The objective of the research programme is to identify and explain the nature , determinants and economic impact of technical change in the UK and , in particular , the impact on
13 The objective of the research programme is to identify and explain the nature , determinants and economic impact of technical change in the UK and , in particular , the impact on
14 The results of a study commissioned by MAFF , AFRC and SERC on the management of technical change in the food processing industry was also completed .
15 There must be reasonable assurance of technical support for the duration of the project , which is expected to take up to ten years : ideally , written guarantees or other contractual commitments should be provided .
16 If the proposal is for a change to an existing product rather than creating a new one , the starting point might be at stages 6 , 7 or 8 depending on the level of technical risk in the modification .
17 If the proposal is for a change to an existing product rather than creating a new one , the starting point might be at stages 6 , 7 or 8 depending on the level of technical risk in the modification .
18 The Nickles amendment , passed by Congress last November , gave Yugoslavia until May 6th to end the repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo , on pain of losing about $5m worth of technical aid in the fiscal year 1991 .
19 These are stuffed full of technical slang about the plane your flying and the sort of weapons it uses .
20 In order to successfully write assembler language programs for the Z88 you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine .
21 If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine .
22 Mr Blake said : ‘ Patents are the largest single source of technical information in the world today .
23 The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside from the city of Koblenz at the Moselle 's junction with the Rhine , to old city of Trier which has its roots in Roman times .
24 through the enactment of repressive legislation by the state .
25 The information given to the development officers at this stage was the client 's name , main address , temporary address ( if any ) , date of birth , date of referral to the psychiatric service , date of domiciliary visit by the psychiatrist , diagnosis , score on the researcher 's organic brain syndrome scale , and whether consent for inclusion in the project had been obtained from the client , his or her next of kin , and his or her general practitioner ( or hospital doctor if temporarily in hospital ) .
26 She stretches out a hand and strokes my backside , but I stand and move away from the bed , dropping a wad of screwed-up tissue on the worn carpet .
27 The Merchant Shipping ( Oil Pollution ) Act 1971 imposes civil liability upon the owner of a ship carrying a cargo of persistent oil in bulk for escape or discharge of persistent oil from the ship .
28 However , reports continued of instability throughout the country , and of persistent fighting on the Sierra Leone border [ see also below , this page ] .
29 Burnhill , Garner and McPherson ( 1987 , 1988 ) , and Diamond ( 1988 ) have studied the effects of parental education on the educational achievement and destination of Scottish school leavers .
30 John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’
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