Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each level in the grouping hierarchy is numbered but " For some levels I will replace these numbers with names that are mnemonic of the correspondence of groups at this level with the rhythmic medium ( e.g. " 'syllables " " or " " tone units " " ) " ( pp. 137 – 8 ) . |
| 32 | Interestingly , while Lee rebelled against the notion of female inferiority , both she and Elderton were convinced of the importance of women 's role as wives and mothers . |
| 33 | Some GPs remain ignorant of the existence of RSI as a bona-fide illness , or even hostile to the very idea . |
| 34 | We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit . |
| 35 | The British were suspicious of the loyalty of headmen , and soon stripped them of their judicial powers . |
| 36 | The former perhaps will repeat a pleasure until exhausted , the latter lose interest as soon as he is fully aware of its nuances , as though suspicious of the tendency of pleasures , like pains , to contract awareness to themselves . |
| 37 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 38 | Teachers who use Breakthrough find that their pupils become conscious of the construction of words , and tend to play with words in a way which is helpful for their spelling . |
| 39 | On the other hand , it is the librarians who are more conscious of the multiplicity of types of information with which the Information Revolution presents us . |
| 40 | And yet , as a parent and a school teacher , I am conscious of the importance of results . |
| 41 | If the gym was n't very full you were really conscious of the number of screws ; they 'd be all round the back , all round the perimeter , and there was apparently a spy hole over the basketball net which they watched through . |
| 42 | These internal connections are explanatory of the behaviour of particles in so far as the world conforms to the model . |
| 43 | In general , a newly proposed theory will be acceptable as worthy of the consideration of scientists if it is more falsifiable than its rival , and especially if it predicts a new kind of phenomenon not touched on by its rival . |
| 44 | Though this work was done to explain the strength of very tiny crystals it is worthy of the attention of engineers who are perhaps somewhat frightened of cracks but take a rather light-hearted view of steps in machinery and structures . |
| 45 | Before you start on the preparation you must be quite sure of the range of studies within which you are to work . |
| 46 | ‘ We ca n't be absolutely sure of the sequence of events but the victim was hit from behind and fell against the door leading into the garage , so the killer must have been in the house . |
| 47 | After that , she was not quite sure of the sequence of events . |
| 48 | The opinion polls have begun to suggest that ordinary Greeks are getting tired of the alternation of placeholders that has made up so much of recent Greek politics . |
| 49 | Computer equipment may be designed in such a way that it is aesthetically pleasing as well as functional , there may be something novel about the design which falls short of the scope of patents . |
| 50 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 51 | However , sophisticated pantographs based on optical measurement of the rotation of the joints can offer much better results although they still fall short of the sort of accuracies that can be obtained by the best systems . |
| 52 | The 10,576 crowd on Saturday , as subdued as the players , was 7,000 short of the number of tickets Portsmouth have sold for tonight . |
| 53 | Individuals are therefore not subjects , and if history is to be a process without a subject there must be no subjects short of the ensemble of practices itself . |
| 54 | Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them . |
| 55 | For advocacy groups to work properly they must feel that they are truly independent of the influence of professionals employed by the authority , since any group will from time to time find itself challenging the advice of a consultant psychiatrist or service manager employed by the authority . |
| 56 | Also the size of the model is independent of the number of words in the dictionary . |
| 57 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 58 | The resultant " static position error " depends on the external torque , but is independent of the number of steps previously executed ; the position error is non-cumulative . |
| 59 | We can not consider the growth of technology or the growth of government as autonomous forces which are somehow independent of the set of values which have either accompanied or prompted their growth . |
| 60 | It was impossible for the government to derive any clear picture of its own administrative apparatus , let alone of the distribution of resources in the Empire . |