Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its influence in the United States was largely the result of the work of C. S. Peirce , William James , and John Dewey who , by challenging the prevailing conceptions of knowledge , tried to redirect the course of philosophy . |
| 2 | As well as the normal forms of engagement letter the following should also be considered if acting as a lead adviser : |
| 3 | To put these figures in perspective , the Sun 's angular diameter is 32 minutes of arc , a little over half a degree . |
| 4 | At Highbury the trouble stemmed from the Canute-like attempts of Sir Henry Norris to halt the rising tide of transfer fees . |
| 5 | How can one communicate the importance of culture , the painstaking values of scholarship and of science in a society dominated by the superficial values of consumerism ? |
| 6 | At first sight it is difficult to reconcile this finding with those of Sachs ( 1967 ) and Garrod and Trabasso ( 1973 ) that recognition memory for the surface form of sentences disappears within 40–60 syllables of input . |
| 7 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 8 | For example , after a series of late nights and lie-ins ( holidays for example ) , it might be time to get back to our normal hours of work ; alternatively , on retirement , a lifetime of early morning rising can be altered . |
| 9 | Briefing on business matters should include basic details such as normal hours of work as well as information on the structure of the work-force , including the nationalities of which it is comprised and where , if any , skill shortages exist . |
| 10 | Employees visiting clients away from the workplace , particularly outside normal hours of duty |
| 11 | More generally , the ambivalent obverse of the elder 's curse is the evil-eye — one of the most condensed and concentrated forms of witchcraft . |
| 12 | It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available . |
| 13 | It provided for total investments of Epounds 14,500 million , of which Epounds 9,600 million would be allocated to the public sector and the balance to the private sector . |
| 14 | This chapter has suggested that it is common to find exaggerated accounts of Japan 's position as the model of an unusually successful and harmonious capitalist society , in particular that compliance may be involuntary and that social inequalities are not as insignificant as they may appear . |
| 15 | Narrow definitions of money only include items that can be spent directly : items such as cash and current accounts in banks ( since they can be spent directly by using cheques ) . |
| 16 | Narrow definitions of money include items that can be directly spent : cash and money in cheque-book and debit card accounts . |
| 17 | AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE 92 PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE FEATURED IN THE LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN IN 1989 AND 1990 — 39 ARE NOW FREE ! |
| 18 | The classic reds of Bordeaux are best left until at least a decade after the vintage date printed on the label . |
| 19 | He had , after all , defended these lush romances of giants and magicians and genii as ways of reaching truths that were not accessible from any other track . |
| 20 | Between 8 and 12 May 5 Corps had taken the surrender of the six assorted groups of Cossacks , White Russians , Caucasians and Ukrainians referred to in Chapter One . |
| 21 | There were conflicting accounts of Marcos 's reception . |
| 22 | There were conflicting accounts of clashes between Issa and Oromo groups in Djibouti and Ethiopia on July 9-15 ; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ' representative in Djibouti apologized to the government for what he said was an incorrect report from the UNHCR that as many as 250 people had been killed . |
| 23 | In a letter dated Aug. 14 , the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein informed the Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that Iraq had agreed ( i ) " to adopt the 1975 agreement " ( i.e. the Algiers accord , which divided the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq ] ; ( ii ) to withdraw as of Aug. 17 an estimated 100,000-250,000 Iraqi troops from Iranian territory officially totalling 2,600 sq km ; and ( iii ) to begin the immediate repatriation of an estimated 30,000 Iranian prisoners of war . |
| 24 | In late August Iraqi and Iranian officials had held talks in Teheran in an effort to resolve outstanding issues relating to the return of Iranian prisoners of war [ see pp. 37727 ; 37873 ] , officially estimated by Iran to total some 5,000 , and the return of between 50 and 150 Iraqi aircraft flown to Iran during the Gulf War [ see p. 37942 ] . |
| 25 | The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible of 222 acts of terrorism which it then reduced to 193 . |
| 26 | Parental views of schools are influenced by television programmes particularly by the way that stereotypes are reinforced in drama . |
| 27 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 28 | Matched pairs of applications were sent for each post — one with an English name and one with an Asian name . |
| 29 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 30 | Arts-based and classically trained , he was convinced that professional experts of Simon 's calibre did not conform to the new conception of the broad-based administrator . |