Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be shock — usually the haemorrhage of tears , followed by temporary loss of normal function because of depression ; then , if all goes well , and the wound is ‘ nursed ’ with care and patience , it will finally heal , the severed edges uniting to produce a strong and healthy scar . |
| 2 | Details of new or innovative products and of variances in European working practices , processes and technologies must also be examined . |
| 3 | A commonsense method of finding out about elites in politics might be to look at formal membership of political institutions and of social or economic organisations known to be active in politics . |
| 4 | It is right that we should consider tonight the question how we enhance the democracy , responsibility and accountability of the European institutions and of our own Ministers to the national Parliament . |
| 5 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 6 | The relative importance of due diligence and of warranties and indemnities will , to a large extent , depend on the purchaser'sassessment of the vendor 's current and future financial stature . |
| 7 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 8 | In spite of the sharp rise in the costs of doing business in Singapore in the 1980s , many companies are still choosing it as their regional base because of the ease of doing business there : it has one of the world 's most modern infrastructures , a free enterprise system with no foreign ownership restrictions , no exchange controls , few tariff barriers , a highly motivated and skilled workforce and attractive investment incentives . |
| 9 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 10 | The latter were more concerned with the tangible and apparently more readily eradicable physical conditions which they believed influenced behaviour than with the less tangible effects of infant emotional experience or of inheritance . |
| 11 | my Lord another factual situation which I 'll simply referred to is the er on going debate in European commission or cases relating to up stream fuel , er , where there 's very little trade , erm for technical reasons because of the isolation of the United Kingdom , however the commission has searched jurisdiction over restricted competition in the market because the fuels have a direct impact upon product , erm from production costs , product down stream of which there is trade |
| 12 | The diagnosis above is a very general definition of this family which is a taxonomist 's nightmare defying a unified description because of the variety of generic forms . |
| 13 | Going back further , there are traditions of oral narrative and of theatre to which the organization of television around interruption and lose attention would be quite familiar . |
| 14 | To read and write , to borrow books and debate , to study the sciences and learn a foreign tongue — all these were so many steps not of economic advancement but of human dignity . |
| 15 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 16 | One patient with AA died shortly after the start of total parenteral nutrition because of renal failure and sepsis . |
| 17 | Are children , when they grow up , better able to challenge injustices , misinformation and hollow values because of their experiences at school ? |
| 18 | Yo was left of centre but not militant ; in the dying moments of the Japanese administration he was invited to form a transitional administration and agreed to do so , on the basis of the release of political prisoners and of no interference with the organisation of workers , peasants , students and youths . |
| 19 | IBM Japan said it will not consider measures that would force employees out despite its economic woes because of customary lifelong employment in Japan . |
| 20 | Accounts of some 70 of the refugees being murdered near the shore by an armed gang and of women being raped were later found to be inaccurate . |
| 21 | TMO says the survey is based on information from a study called ‘ Observatoire Permanent des Etablissements , ’ which is conducted every two years among 7,000 enterprises , and from annual surveys of its large and medium-sized accounts and of computer distributors . |
| 22 | Peterson Strobe Tuners in particular have been used for years by professional musicians because of their superior accuracy . |
| 23 | Considerations to be explored at the December conference included the scope of union , for example the degree of further transfer of competence ; the functioning of the institutions , for example the strengthening of the Commission with regard to implementing Community policies ; strengthening democratic control and accountability for member-states , possibly via increased involvement of the European Parliament or of national parliaments ; and the application and definition of the principle of " subsidiarity " . |
| 24 | On Oct. 7 three of the movement 's leaders , including the secretary-general , Abdelfatah Mourou , were briefly detained for issuing a communique accusing the Education Minister , Mohamed Charfi , of having belittled Islamic values and of seeking to reintroduce a policy of secularization . |
| 25 | On the other , supporters of order , of economic conservatism and of keeping the union together at all costs . |
| 26 | And we 've already discovered in the last six months by discreet calls because of something we 've seen a bit funny in er er in er references that have come back or people have been down right honest and said , Sorry er this guy was last time I spoke with him . |
| 27 | Patients developing tolerance to adenosine-mediated protection because of recurrent anginal episodes may be amenable to preconditioning with either a muscarinic or an adrenergic agonist depending on the level in the signalling pathway at which tolerance occurs . |
| 28 | Since Dicey , most constitutional authorities for most of this century have seen liberal-democratic constitutional theory and British political practice as of one . |
| 29 | Even the innocent bystander suspects that such claims contain more of wishful thinking than of substance , but he rarely realises how hard licensed dealers are . |
| 30 | Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised . |