Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [coord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 2 | Various measures connected to the government 's economic reform programme were enacted by parliament in February , but a privatisation bill , under discussion in the Assembly , was delayed because of technical difficulties and because of political and trade union opposition . |
| 3 | These consist very largely of colleges of technology and technical colleges which offer only a minority of advanced courses and where most of their students are in the sixteen to nineteen age group and taking non-advanced courses . |
| 4 | The total length of time over which a product may decline depends on a variety of factors , such as its relevance to basic needs , its adaptability in the light of economic trends and whether it is the focus of short-term fads or of longer-lasting fashions . |
| 5 | The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’ |
| 6 | The exemption will not apply to a mere agreement for the sale of specific assets or where the vendor is disposing of only part of his interest in the business . |
| 7 | The implications are therefore that , where bilingual pupils need extra help , this should be given in the classroom as part of normal lessons and that there may be a need for bilingual teaching support and for books and other written material to be available in the pupils ’ mother tongues until such time as they are competent in English . |
| 8 | Amdahl Corp 's first quarter loss warning has done the Sunnyvale IBMulator no good at all with Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the company 's short-term debt to Prime-3 from Prime-2 in expectation of weak earnings and and reduced cash flow at the company . |
| 9 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 10 | Ask your solicitor beforehand for an idea of possible costs and whether you might qualify for one of the forms of Legal Aid . |
| 11 | The interior of Armstrong was beginning to smell of wet dogs and that just added to my bad mood . |
| 12 | Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors . |
| 13 | Also , Prussia was only one of a series of German states and as such could hardly take advantage of the rapidly developing and highly lucrative Atlantic trade . |
| 14 | It was not simply a matter of counter action , for the chapel with its meetings , services , love-feasts , etc. became in itself a centre of non-work-time activities and as the nineteenth century advanced , a deliberate purveyor of counter attraction . |
| 15 | In a broad-scale study of cloud forests , it was concluded that random colonization had played an important part in determining the species compositions of different ones and that the predominance of widespread species of successional habitats elsewhere reflected a high rate of generalist dispersal . |
| 16 | A decision that is easy for one group may be hard for another — not just because of different circumstances but because of different motivations . |
| 17 | These exercise their antimicrobial powers against a wide variety of different bacteria and when given for , say , a sore throat , will also kill off many of the normal commensal organisms in the intestine ( which is why a lot of people develop diarrhoea when taking antibiotics ) , and will also destroy the normal bacterial flora in the vagina . |
| 18 | Two strands of evidence , that from the reciprocal transplanting of clover into the neighbourhood of different grasses and that from the study of the distribution of cyanogenic properties and the distribution of slugs , allow an easy interpretation in terms of immediate and present selective forces . |
| 19 | As a union we need to build a broad coalition with the providers and the users of public services and if necessary , with the employers . |
| 20 | A special draft letter is available from NDO to approach the administrators of specialised classes and where no money is available at source it may be possible to get recreational classes to sponsor a particular home or handicapped class . |
| 21 | Yes Norman Lamont you 're right erm even the demise was suggested that the square sausage , which seemed possible on the basis of the conversion of metric tables and if you do n't know what the square sausage is , the G M B Scotland delegates will only be too happy er to give you the answer . |
| 22 | Difficulties arise due to the polysemous nature of English words and that documents may have been filed under keywords that are different to those used in the query . |
| 23 | The letter was sent to Mr Solchaga 's top aide by Manuel Conthe , then in charge of foreign transactions and since promoted to head of the Treasury . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that de facto registration inflates the total by about 0.2% because of foreign visitors and that about 2% of the true population are displaced . |
| 25 | They are seen not as the victims of social problems but as those who contribute to their own victimisation by their irresolution or fatalism or apathy . |
| 26 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the problem that some mature students , particularly women with home commitments , have to take their degree courses in the form of part-time courses and that they are therefore not eligible for mandatory grant ? |
| 27 | This too was slow to arrive , but it has bags of extra features and because it 's bundled with the DOS version for a mere £299 , it has to be a bargain . |
| 28 | Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic , precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required . |
| 29 | Traditionally , a low ratio is interpreted as indicating that investors as a whole expect rather low levels of future earnings or that those earnings are subject to a high level of risk . |
| 30 | Its layout reflects the mechanical limitations of early typewriters and as such hardly constitutes an intuitive ordering that would facilitate rapid learning . |