Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in my abdomen was a sac of warm caring , a bladder of emotional nutrition , distended with the urge to burst and engender another 's heart . |
| 2 | He was the Napoleon of Central Europe , though without Napoleon 's greed and vindictiveness . |
| 3 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 4 | The introduction comments : ‘ We have witnessed a great change in manners : the substitution of words without blows for blows with or without words ; an approximation in the manners of different classes ; a decline in the spirit of lawlessness . ’ |
| 5 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 6 | In its ‘ strong ’ form , this emergent cosmology of biographical medicine places the patient and his biography at the centre of ‘ the medical gaze ’ and relegates hospital medicine to a purely technical role ; in its weaker form , the two cosmologies are different , but equal . |
| 7 | Most important of all , he can have no rights at all against his home state — such matters are ‘ domestic ’ and normally entirely outside the purview of international law , a singularly important limitation in the area of human rights where the master criminal is the victim 's own government . |
| 8 | The second sentence is perfectly unexceptionable apart from the fact that it appears to be in flat contradiction of the first : involuntary unemployment is a ‘ theoretical construct ’ — surely theoretical constructs fall within the purview of economic theory ! — which was developed to explain the very real and painful phenomenon of large-scale unemployment . |
| 9 | Improved sanitation , infection and vector control , betterment of nutrition , vaccinations , and maternal and child health programmes have been under the purview of local health authorities in the ministries of health . |
| 10 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 11 | The earliest essays in English service-music were on similar lines to early Lutheran ones : truncation of the Mass , and drastic simplification of plainsong as in the Cranmerian Booke of Common praier noted ( 1550 ) of John Marbeck ( c. 1510–85 ) . |
| 12 | Although we used +3 SD above the mean of negative controls as cut off level for positivity in comparison to the +2 SD used by Saxon et al this alone can not explain the differences . |
| 13 | Statistical methods — Sample sizes of 15 to 20 in each group were targeted to detect a reduction in median number of transfusions from two to one per infant and an increase in the mean of median arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios on day 1 from 0.3 to 0.5 with a power of 80% and a significance level of 5% . |
| 14 | A visual mean of basal UOS pressure was determined from each edited minute of tracing if there were more than 14 seconds remaining after editing . |
| 15 | They would film to fit their rather general level of understanding , a pooled regression to the mean of intellectual safeness . |
| 16 | Bloom is physically unimpressive , is incapable of Stephen 's fierce intellectual of aesthetic leaps . |
| 17 | A useful group of iris with clumps of grassy foliage . |
| 18 | After fertilisation though , the flowers develop extraordinary clumps of discus-shaped bodies — microscopic examination shows that these bodies are a true hybrid of animal protein sandwiched between a thin envelope of tomato fruit . |
| 19 | The path that left the glade was steep and narrow and spread across with ivy and clumps of mauve and white violets . |
| 20 | She followed its descent to the water 's edge , then looked across to where a high rock wall was studded with clumps of ferny growth that had found soil in crevices . |
| 21 | Grasses gradually increase and after 10 years the appearance is mainly one of grassland with scattered clumps of tall herbs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Its great clumps of rough , hairy stems can grow up to 6ft tall . |
| 24 | The unwary climber is dive-bombed by irate parent birds as speckled chicks freeze to stillness behind clumps of raffia-like moor grass . |
| 25 | Venturing into the city 's underground reservoirs the Doctor finds clumps of Deadly Nightshade growing , and also a party of human survivors from the first expedition . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Back at Stuart Street I found Fenella and Lisabeth and Miranda and Doogie busy decorating the staircase with brightly coloured tinsel streamers which had clumps of real holly tied into them every eighteen inches or so . |
| 28 | We walked down the woodland ride , past clumps of early purple orchids , past a wild service tree , and past ditches in which grew the tall pendulous sedge , its attractive female flowers swaying in the breeze . |
| 29 | Most species require very soft and slightly acid water conditions with clumps of fine-leaved plants in which to scatter their strongly adhesive eggs . |
| 30 | At one point they stopped to smoke a chillim in a glade where the conifers were thinner and dense clumps of feathery-leafed bamboo had spread across the open spaces . |