Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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% . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They would film to fit their rather general level of understanding , a pooled regression to the mean of intellectual safeness . |
| 12 | Bloom is physically unimpressive , is incapable of Stephen 's fierce intellectual of aesthetic leaps . |
| 13 | Consultation in the creation of policy is essential , but it should not become such an end in itself that decisions become imprisoned in a wheel of endless debate . |
| 14 | Newnham Mill , on the River Rea near the busy road junction , is an eighteenth-century water-powered corn mill which has been restored to full working order , its machinery driven by an undershot wheel of fifteen-foot diameter . |
| 15 | A broad wheel of small diameter , it is of the overshot , pitch-back type and sits below a ‘ launder ’ , or large iron tank , which accepts water from the ‘ flume ’ , connected with the mill-pond , so that water is ducted on to the top of the wheel , causing it to rotate backwards . |
| 16 | A quantum leap on from PE 's brilliant debut , ‘ Nation Of Millions ’ is a perpetual catherine wheel of militant ideas , brain scrambling noises , language loops and old fashioned hooks . |
| 17 | Another BBC report at about the same time reflected official thinking : ‘ The wheel of Aflaqi aggression has been turning with the help of Gulf petrodollars . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So much heartbreak , too much despair , so unnecessary , so many lives broken on the wheel of crude ambition and cover-up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Our merchandise , ’ Flittern said , and with a jerk of long , spidery limbs , he leapt up out of the hole . |
| 20 | He also operated a small fleet of ships , issued the largest and arguably the finest British token coinage , purchased the two-member pocket borough of Great Marlow , for which he was MP from 1790 , and built there Temple House , designed by Samuel Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | Is the dive computer the result of a fiendish plot by manufacturers to relieve the diver of hard earned cash ? |
| 22 | In so far as religious thinking was permeated by the spirit of Humanism , religious music also submitted to become the vehicle of the word while pure polyphony of the utmost technical refinement continued to serve the religion of pure unreasoning faith , ‘ the magic of sound matching the magic of faith ’ . |
| 23 | For the first time in history , people are beginning to adopt the religion of other cultures or are finding inspiration in more than one faith . |
| 24 | The old religion of ancient Egypt had ossified , and the country was ripe for conversion . |
| 25 | So many religions , such as the religion of Ancient Egypt , for instance , whi which made a great fetish of this , has a belief in a judgment after death , followed by eternal retribution er , heaven effectively for the just and er , damnation effectively for the unjust , and some religions like Catholicism stick in an intermediate state pur purgatory , where you can work , work off a sentence , as it were , for a few , for a few thousand years . |
| 26 | To many people , talk of greater denominational unity was nothing more than the application to religion of current political nostrums like collectivism or , worse , ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 27 | This book included memorable and often quoted accounts of Nicholls 's pastoral experiences in Kentish parishes , where congregations without experience of a preaching ministry retained a vague semi-Pelagian religion of conventional works righteousness . |
| 28 | The origins of this lay in a religion of local cults which later developed links with each other . |
| 29 | The Bangor based company are involved in the export of advanced evacuated head pipe solar collectors and their major overseas markets include Germany , Switzerland , Austria , Italy and Japan . |
| 30 | Environmentalists had hoped the Convention would result in enforcing a ban on the export of toxic waste , but the meeting wound up by simply enforcing an obligation of ‘ notification ’ , whereby the importing country has to be informed of the toxic waste being transferred . |