Example sentences of "and of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began to recommend the development of new industries , and of temporary work-creation schemes strictly for those capable of finding work in normal times . |
| 2 | The report is particularly critical of the expansion of rice and strawberry crops , which will draw unacceptable amounts of water from the reserve , and of planned marina developments . |
| 3 | The exercise of accountability , and of professional judgement , by their very definitions require much more in-depth knowledge , and the ability to analyse and evaluate information , and to relate both to the care of individuals and to client groups . |
| 4 | The role of the Inspectorate is to promote the highest standards of education and training and of professional practice in training organisations . |
| 5 | Through all these phases , though of course in different ways , we can see the complex asymmetry between the older established institutions of cultural and social reproduction ( Church and State ) and the new institutions and forces both of the market and of professional and cultural independence . |
| 6 | in a stable environment ( ie. the container finn ) the most efficient structure was one in which the influence and authority of senior managers were relatively high and of middle managers low ; |
| 7 | in a dynamic environment ( ie the plastics firm ) the most efficient structure was one in which the influence and authority of senior managers were somewhat less , and of middle managers correspondingly greater . |
| 8 | Correspondingly from a practical training viewpoint there developed a more systematic approach to taxonomies of training and of instructional methods together with their inter-relationships . |
| 9 | Americans can be supremely jealous of English behaviour and of Japanese economic muscle . |
| 10 | The occurrence of high temperature minerals , e.g. pyrophyllite and of hydrothermal ore minerals on fractures is indicated in Fig. 4 . |
| 11 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 12 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |
| 13 | On returning she is guaranteed a job at the same level and of similar content to the one she left , but ‘ the plan is that nearer the time I start to discuss my return with management and personnel ’ . |
| 14 | I defy the conclusions of the Milan conference and of similar packed conventions . |
| 15 | These should be about 23 cm ( 9 in ) deep and of similar width if they are to accommodate aquatic planting baskets properly . |
| 16 | This is wonderful enough ; but in the western part of the southern French Jura , the Cerin Lithographic Stone is of similarly limited extent behind reefs , of similar lithology , of similar fauna and flora and of similar age ( plate 1.14 ) . |
| 17 | The company was a founder member and is still a major supporter of the Portman Group in the UK and of similar organisations which combat alcohol abuse worldwide , such as the Century Council in the USA and DIFA-Forum in Germany . |
| 18 | For these reasons the inevitable defeat of the " United Front " and of Communist affiliation by a predominantly trade-union vote did little to deter the " Unity Campaign " which grew in direct defiance of the Edinburgh decisions . |
| 19 | That the human galaxy might be free from all manner of evil , both of alien and of corrupted human origin , and also of unmentionable source . |
| 20 | Instinctual repression of both sexuality and of violent aggressive impulses are necessary for any human society to be possible at all , the former helping to counteract the destructive aggressive impulses . |
| 21 | ISIS-3 compared the efficacy of streptokinase , tPA , and anistreplase and of subcutaneous heparin versus no heparin among 41,299 patients with evolving myocardial infarction . |
| 22 | Howard not only proposed segregation by sex and of hardened felons from the younger , more tractable ones ; he proposed day rooms , useful work and single cells . |
| 23 | The Tuareg demands included the withdrawal of the army to barracks , the ending of massacres and of arbitrary arrests of civilians , and an independent inquiry into the issue , with international observers . |
| 24 | There are fairy rings of eight-inch-diameter horse-mushrooms and of shaggy parasols ( no good for eating raw , but I pick a bagful for later . ) |
| 25 | The reform of both workforce training and of pre-vocational preparation in schools , in order to raise productivity , are now accepted priorities of government policies . |
| 26 | It was the prevalence of this illusion that held the key to the overwhelming popularity of the League and of collective security in Britain in the mid-1930s . |
| 27 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 28 | The books chosen for study should also encompass a balanced range of presentations of other societies , and of ethnic and social groupings and life-styles within our own society . |
| 29 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 30 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |