Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ culture of contentment ’ — Galbraith might equally have used the phrase ‘ culture of complacency ’ — is the prevailing majority of electors in the US , UK and other advanced economies . |
| 2 | In this latter condition , gluten ( which is also found in oats , barley , and rye ) produces damage to the lining of the bowel , preventing normal absorption of nutrients from the diet . |
| 3 | On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil . |
| 4 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 5 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 6 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 7 | Marxism 's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor . |
| 8 | Accidental change of gear in a driving career |
| 9 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 10 | From the upstairs window of the grey-stone , substantial house at the top of the road there was billowing into the night slow , steady streams of smoke — not thick , or threatening in themselves , but culminating in a heavy , acrid cloud haloing the house , and sending a hideous smell of ruin down the gentle hill to the centre of the town . |
| 11 | By the same token , the exchange relation expressing the social division of labour and the separation of the socio-production organisation into independent capitalist enterprises is replaced by a technical division of labour within an organised ‘ national economy ’ . |
| 12 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 13 | I do the odd bit of d-i-y round the home , which I do n't find too difficult , being an engineer by trade . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ Experience elsewhere has shown that people with head injuries need a concentrated level of service in the early stages . |
| 15 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 16 | An obvious method is to advertise but be careful that you aim the right kind Of advertising in the right direction , otherwise it is money badly spent . |
| 17 | If you decide to use an active sentence to describe Figure 14 , you might create a frame such as ‘ The N V-ed the N with a N ’ : this is the right kind of frame for an active sentence with three nouns and a verb . |
| 18 | There is usually no great profit on these transactions , despite the high rents achievable on the right kind of homes in the right areas for incoming expatriate employees of firms like his own . |
| 19 | Ralph King must be a very active 70 year old to attempt such an ambitious project , namely to cover the broad field of safety in the process industry in one volume without assistance from other experts . |
| 20 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 21 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 22 | How could a human being experience such total contrast of feelings in a matter of seconds . |
| 23 | The Council for National Academic Awards was to be established to validate degrees in this rich variety of institutions within the public ( that is , the Local Education Authority-controlled ) sector . |
| 24 | The following is a possible course of action for a school . |
| 25 | That there is a broad division of opinion on the subject of sole practice within different sectors of the profession is difficult to dispute from the comments made in response to the consultation . |
| 26 | A rather more subtle case of silence on a point which appears to be dealt with exhaustively in the Convention is to be found in article 7(3) , which prescribes a conflict rule to determine the law governing public-notice requirements ( if any ) needed to perfect the lessor 's title against a trustee in bankruptcy and creditors . |
| 27 | In Pomerania , where in practice serfdom was to last almost a generation longer than in any other corner of Europe , the Prussians were able to prevent even a narrow coincidence of interests between the Polish nobles and peasants by inviting the nobles to leave and by inviting the peasants to become Prussians . |
| 28 | — ( 1 ) In subsection ( 3 ) of section 131 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ( community charge benefits ) in paragraph ( a ) the words ’ and is not there shown as undertaking a full-time course of education on the day ’ shall be deleted ; ( 2 ) In subsection ( 5 ) of that section after ’ concerned ’ there shall be inserted : — ’ up to 100 per cent . |
| 29 | It will be divided from the gravel and undergravel filter by a 3″ tall strip of glass across the tank . |
| 30 | A multinational base of contributors as the relevance of bibliometric indicators to national scientific and engineering policies is perceived . ’ |