Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you are going to play games in the dark , ’ he said , ‘ please be careful of the back stairs on the first floor . |
| 2 | The interior of the building has been most aesthetically restored to incorporate as many as possible of the working parts of the mill in the dining area . |
| 3 | In part it is simply descriptive of the employment foundations of the economy , and is sometimes related to theories of economic development which argue that national economies evolve through a series of stages dominated in turn by agricuIture , manufacturing and services . |
| 4 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 5 | Taylor , who had proved the most obdurate of the faction leaders at all stages of the ceasefire negotiations , was reported to feel angry and cheated over the Lomé agreement . |
| 6 | Sepilok is typical of the dipterocarp forests of the region and the trees have high levels of quantitative defences , whereas Kuala Lompat , which is unusually rich in leguminous species by comparison with dipterocarps , has trees with less reliance on them . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it is fair to say that he was far more conscious of the reductionist tendencies in logical positivism than were others who passed through this particular school of thought . |
| 8 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 9 | This bottlenecking is characteristic of the life cycles of all many-celled animals and most plants . |
| 10 | The characteristic swelling of the lymph glands between the lower jaw often take several days to develop and these signs usually confirm a strangles case . |
| 11 | Other people may go on to develop further symptoms of their HIV infection including persistent swelling of the lymph glands in the neck , armpits and groin , continuous tiredness , unexplained weight loss , continuous dry cough not related to smoking , diarrhoea , thrush , unexplained bleeding , shortness of breath , cold sores , night sweats and fevers . |
| 12 | Secondary bacterial infection of the ulcers is common and there is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes in the groin , which can be very tender . |
| 13 | We will usually aim to ensure that any document containing financial and other information issued by the firm as agent to a small group of potential investors , which the firm will generally need to approve as an authorised person under the Financial Services Act , does not fall foul of the prospectus provisions of the companies Act 1985 . |
| 14 | Between 1980/81 and 1985/86 almost two-thirds of local authorities fell short of the target increases of 2 per cent a year , and the most recent expenditure plans indicate that between 1988/89 and 1990/91 real expenditure on the personal social services will fall by 0.7 per cent . |
| 15 | The representative volume element is a sample that ( a ) is structurally entirely typical of the whole mixture on average , and ( b ) contains a sufficient number of inclusions for the apparent overall moduli to be effectively independent of the surface values of traction and displacement so long as these values are " macroscopically uniform " . |
| 16 | It is notable that this feature , which occurs in direct discourse , is also characteristic of the language of the narrator , so that descriptive passages are mimetic of the thought patterns of the characters . |
| 17 | Finally , by far the most important of the planning tools for any concerned with repair , maintenance and alterations of buildings are Listed Buildings . |
| 18 | On Portrush , for example : ‘ Full of the twin evils of lager louts and litter , the latter caused in most cases by the former ’ . |
| 19 | Hopes that the republic could survive Yugoslavia 's demise intact have been blunted by territorial battles reminiscent of the opening rounds of the civil war in neighbouring Croatia . |
| 20 | Beeston 's snaking walls and superb position are reminiscent of the crusader castles in distant lands from which Beeston 's builder drew his inspiration . |
| 21 | Reminiscent of the peak days of Studio 54 , the Serpentine Gallery was mobbed by a large audience struggling to gain admission to the opening night of Robert Gober 's exhibition ( to 25 April ) . |
| 22 | Such wide-reaching results are remarkably reminiscent of the drug pictures of many of the homoeopathic remedies , which are visualized as being the keys which can unlock various metabolic blocks . |
| 23 | And why were evangelical Christians and Bruce Springsteen fans burning disco records in ceremonies reminiscent of the book bonfires of Nazi Germany ? |
| 24 | He was intensely critical of the capping proposals in the Bill . |
| 25 | However , he is critical of the staffing levels in the prison 's acute psychiatric unit , the lack of racial minorities amoung the inmates and the effects of stress on staff . |
| 26 | In the early part of the period these were essentially landowners , religious functionaries and bureaucrats , but as the city 's function gradually changed to accommodate the new political and economic realities , a new ‘ modern entrepreneurial ’ elite emerged which took advantage of the new circumstances and in particular of the boom conditions of the late 1930s . |
| 27 | I 'd like to book one or other of the Conference Rooms for the following dates , for meetings of the Computer Management Group . |
| 28 | Senior managers , on the other hand , mindful of the resource implications of the assessment responsibility which has been placed on their departments , may be looking for systems which will contain within manageable resource limits the potentially very high assessment workload for their staff . |
| 29 | Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , erm I think the clear answer to that is that districts , erm and county , erm were very aware of the greenbelt constraints on greenbelt sites |
| 30 | Of course , like everyone else I 'm aware of the slimming adverts on television or in magazines , and the vast amount of advice ( a lot of it conflicting ) about how we should eat . |