Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER 20 years of technical development designers who use computer graphics to produce animated films are still stymied by a technological bottleneck . |
| 2 | Instead , virgin forest is plundered , and behind the loggers come thousands of displaced migrant farmers who destroy any chance the land may have had of regenerating itself . |
| 3 | that there are no non-Green Belt or no prospect of non-Green Belt sites which might address that shortfall ; and |
| 4 | ‘ You can call him a realistic kind of Labour Party man who works with capitalism , ’ says William Wolff , once leader of the party . |
| 5 | The Militant Tendency is an organization of Labour Party members whose views are far to the Left of traditional Labour doctrines . |
| 6 | The Dog and Gun is at a junction of narrow country roads which are not closed to traffic , so chaos often results . |
| 7 | Besides the long access drive that climbed into the trees alongside the road there was a break in the wall by a drain culvert , and a flight of narrow stone steps which climbed towards the cottages . |
| 8 | Johnny Marr 's guitar work may have been a stable basis of listenability but it was Morrissey 's release from years of repressed loser attitudes which made The Smiths so special . |
| 9 | The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors . |
| 10 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 11 | Add to this the quantitative regulation of expression of cell adhesion molecules in response , for example , to inflammatory mediators and associated with changes in cellular differentiation , and we find a complex and highly responsive set of cellular adhesion mechanisms whose role in normal tissue formation and disease is only beginning to be understood . |
| 12 | Running through elite theory accounts of political leadership roles there are then two contrasting themes . |
| 13 | Within the broad perspective of rural settlement studies it is most apparent that they are not static entities and their mobility results in their frequent desertion . |
| 14 | These investigations uncovered the topsy-turvy pattern of rural housing trends which the link between the structure of landholding , the financing of poor rates and the construction of rural houses had created . |
| 15 | Although this his been the opposite of what was generally intended , there seems to be little sign of any reappraisal of rural planning controls which might result in a reversal of current trends . |
| 16 | In the United Kingdom , of course , there is also a well-established system of private boarding schools which shelter twice as many children as welfare establishments and absorb much middle-class need ( Lambert et al . , |
| 17 | Having existed in the twilight world of private guitar tuition myself for nine years or more , it was easy to establish some common ground . |
| 18 | The most recent list of private press books I have seen ( for the year 1975 , published by the Private Libraries Association , Pinner , in 1978 ) cited nearly three hundred publications from some 125 presses , at home and abroad . |
| 19 | And this point is independent of the number of private language users there are . |
| 20 | Leslie Hannah has argued that proof of this can be found in the growth of private pension schemes which , even if frequently initiated by employers for ‘ labour control ’ reasons , demonstrate that we have invented retirement because we want it . |
| 21 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 22 | Fighting my way through the milling crowds of private view enthusiasts which announce the opening of this years round of degree shows , my curiosity was aroused by the number of women consistently achieving standards of excellence . |
| 23 | But on the question of private tuition fees they are moving with remarkable alacrity . |
| 24 | At the start of each school day there is a twenty minute tutorial time , during which personal , social and moral values are discussed within the tutor group . ’ |
| 25 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 26 | When pupils reach the upper limit of each age group their attainment would be measured by teachers against a series of nationally prescribed criteria . |
| 27 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 28 | Completion rates — this is a measure of the ‘ quantity ’ of degrees obtained , and is based on the percentage of each student cohort which completes the course of study on which they have set |
| 29 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 30 | Since Anthony is above all concerned with highlighting the issues involved , rather than providing solutions , he then suggests the kind of specific accounting information which might satisfy the above four needs , and puts the arguments pro and con for each . |