Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 2 | Furthermore , intervention programmes aiming to reduce the level of expressed emotion among relatives high on this index , or alternatively to reduce their level of face-to-face contact , have shown that relapse rates can be reduced in this way ( e.g. Leff et al. , 1982 ; 1985 ; Falloon et al. , 1982 ; and see chapter 9 ) . |
| 3 | The Workshop aimed to draw on the experience of participants in exploring the benefits to be obtained from a deliberate encouragement of professional interaction between colleagues within and across , secondary schools . |
| 4 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 5 | Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand . |
| 6 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 7 | Meeting a group of complete strangers from backgrounds very different to my own , in such an alien environment , was disconcerting . |
| 8 | The house sits snugly , 275 feet above sea level , with a view southwards out over a wide expanse of undulating country to hills beyond . |
| 9 | But there are anyway other anecdotes which for what they are worth trace the origin of political professionalism to dates earlier than Kleon : a Byzantine lexicon called the Suda , for instance , makes Pericles the first to take a written speech into court , while for Aristotle ( Cic . |
| 10 | The use of political symbols on coins naturally becomes particularly strident at times of crisis , especially during periods of civil war . |
| 11 | The town represents overwhelmingly the focus of political power in Zambia today . |
| 12 | He knew that he was the shortest in the class by about three inches and that Mr Gillis was considerate enough to bark out the height of each boy after measurement so that everyone in the class knew the awful truth . |
| 13 | An initial objective inventory of landform and land use , and then a qualitative assessment of the value of each type of landscape so identified . |
| 14 | The 2-gram ( bigram ) statistics are the observed frequencies of each pair of symbols etc . |
| 15 | The unit of registration was the township , and the instructions called for certification of the owner of each piece of land there , not for a statement of the property of each inhabitant . |
| 16 | The comparison of cost and net realisable value needs to be made in respect of each item of stock separately . |
| 17 | The ideal screening system , such as might be used in antenatal clinics should utilize one of each sort of test so that a combination of sensitivity with selectivity can be obtained . |
| 18 | The great advantages of using a computer lie in its ability to select the records of specific kinds of people very much more quickly than is possible with a manual record system , and to extract and present information required in a wide variety of formats These two applications of a computer not only save a vast amount of time . |
| 19 | The inclusion in the new paintings galleries of eight rooms without skylights exclusively for drawings and pastels has been hailed as a major innovation . |
| 20 | Tyminski had accused Mazowiecki of being a party to the " treasonous " sale of state-owned enterprises to foreigners allegedly for less than their true value [ see p. 37840 ] . |
| 21 | I have discussed active transport at some length , because it is one of the processes on which the maintenance of spatial differentiation in organisms ultimately depends . |
| 22 | The commercial depression in Colombo and other towns may well have decreased the demand for beef , making the shipment of stolen cattle to butchers less profitable . |
| 23 | The question of possible mis-dealings by Rubio also raised sensitive issues at the level of the European Communities ( EC ) , as the EC prepared to give to the central bank governors by the end of 1993 increased powers in determining monetary policy . |
| 24 | You need to see the situation clearly , evaluate the pros and cons of possible courses of action accurately , and to behave firmly and astutely . |
| 25 | Moore et al showed that a history of otitis media in children was associated with abnormalities of binaural processing of sounds even when their thresholds for pure tones were normal . |
| 26 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 27 | The valley of the upper Lugg is a tree-clad grove in the rounded mountains of that part of Wales still known to its inhabitants as Radnorshire . |
| 28 | The photons which approached the crystal were in a state which was a superposition of that state of polarisation together with the state of polarisation parallel to the optical axis . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid no matter how good your advocacy performance is , you 're never going to get an ovation like that , and we wo n't expect you to do it in front of that size of audience either . |
| 30 | Think for a moment of that simultaneity of action very often met with between singers , chorus , dancers and orchestra … |