Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more esoteric or higher understanding of the reality of one universal , wholistic creative principle ( monism ) is embraced only by those who are able to transcend the confines of theistic involvement as it is in any country or civilization . ’ |
| 2 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 3 | At the end of last year , Ian Fulton of Technical Services and his friend Sean Elvin took a lorry containing 14 tons of aid to Croatia . |
| 4 | On a different level the academy established at Woolwich in 1741 , the great engineering school set up at Mézières in 1748 , the combined artillery and engineer school created in Russia in 1756 , and a number of similar establishments , provided the armies of Europe with a greater fund of technical knowledge than they had hitherto possessed . |
| 5 | The pilot , who survived , gave no indication of technical problems as he came in to land . |
| 6 | Are there bits of technical advice that you can give to people intending to apply to university ? |
| 7 | I was a little concerned though when the makers of ‘ MiniMag ’ asked what experience she 'd had of articulated vehicles and she replied , ‘ I 've spent my life driving Daddy 's horse-boxes . ’ |
| 8 | Well there 's a whole range of kind of wacky ideas that we 'll be working on . |
| 9 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
| 10 | This paper stressed the need to make plans for children based on a realistic assessment of whether or not rehabilitation with the natural family is possible and to consider the purpose of parental contact and its effects on the child . |
| 11 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 12 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 13 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 14 | After working in his father 's wire rope works at Halifax , Holroyd Smith struck off on his own , no doubt evoking a sigh of parental relief as he could not stop inventing and improving everything around him , from furnaces to ladies ' corsets . |
| 15 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 16 | Right the rationale is that the degree of parental investment and its effect on the offspring vary with the offspring 's age , and as says , one of the fundamental erm , principles of this is that the , by and large the younger the offspring the more valuable any unit of parental is to it , and the more efficacious it is , and the most obvious example of that would be food . |
| 17 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 18 | As Provincial Editor I handled correspondents ’ news reports from more than a score of outlying communities and our Times-Herald ‘ reporter ’ for the Briercrest area was a Mrs Edna Jacques . |
| 19 | Ace 's eyes were full of mocking laughter as they took in the discomfited expression on the journalist 's face . |
| 20 | From then on the mood is as fine a crescendo of obsessive behaviour as you 're likely to get this side of hell . |
| 21 | There were outdoor tennis courts , which were a quarter the cost of indoor ones and you did n't get the smoke , and also two boules alleys , or pitches , or whatever they 're called . |
| 22 | He goes on to explain that this change was fundamental to the development of Combined Operations as he was then able to order the ships and craft , and requisition bases among the other resources controlled by the Minister of Defence ( Winston Churchill ) . |
| 23 | " No one in the Labour Party " , wrote Cripps , " wants to encourage the forming of any sort of combined Opposition if it can be avoided — that is to say , if the Labour Party can show itself strong enough to give the lead to the anti-National Government forces and to be a real and effective Opposition to that Government " . |
| 24 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 25 | There are some areas of medical activity whose beneficiaries are almost invariably of advanced years and whose practitioners could thereby be claimed to favour older citizens . |
| 26 | Durkheim had little difficulty in employing this material to demonstrate how beliefs in the mystical powers of animals and other ‘ totemic ’ forces reflected the structure of Aboriginal hordes and their component divisions . |
| 27 | Young though they were , her pupils knew she could not provide the amount of professional work that he had to offer . |
| 28 | But the practical components of the curriculum , whether in the medieval university or in courses of professional education as they developed after the Second World War , have been subsidiary elements in a much wider programme of studies ; and they have an internal connection with the general programme of theoretical studies . |
| 29 | Next year I 'll report to the general assembly erm , if all things are equal , that the Board will by then have set up a scheme to allow care workers to go out from our erm residential establishments into the community to extend the kind of professional service that we 're able to give in our establishments to people who live in the community . |
| 30 | The 210 children have taken up the panto 's challenge and sought the advice of professional builders so they can construct Wendy 's house in brick in their school yard . |