Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Are there bits of technical advice that you can give to people intending to apply to university ? |
| 5 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 6 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ace 's eyes were full of mocking laughter as they took in the discomfited expression on the journalist 's face . |
| 10 | From then on the mood is as fine a crescendo of obsessive behaviour as you 're likely to get this side of hell . |
| 11 | " 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Young though they were , her pupils knew she could not provide the amount of professional work that he had to offer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may appear harsh to criticize the Library Association for not pursuing possible cases of professional misconduct and it may seem even harsher to pillory members of the Association for putting personal interests first and professional interests second , but censorship , and being party to censorship . |
| 17 | It may even appear unfair to elevate such a document as the Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct when it declares |
| 18 | The surgeon also abused the patient , and it was a misuse of professional privilege that he did so . |
| 19 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 20 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 21 | Christopher was a slight child , with rather too thin arms and legs , and little flat wrists which always gave Carolyn a stab of apprehensive fear when she noticed them . |
| 22 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 23 | Such an effect is dependent on wage bargaining procedures taking account of the implications of monetary union and it remains to be seen whether this will continue to be the case in the longer term . |
| 24 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 25 | On the particular issue of regional migration as it affects Greater York , I would suspect and we can probably put some information in to confirm this that the linkages between Greater York area and other county areas within er Yorkshire and Humberside , vary . |
| 26 | I suggest to those who talk of regional banding that they look at the protection that the banding system will offer to people living in London and the south-east . |
| 27 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 28 | Some of the culverts have been smashed by the passage of heavy-wheeled vehicles such as tractors and Land-rovers over the years , so that in places beyond Nun House Outrake after heavy rains the Ocky is a lagoon of peaty mud and you need the agility of a ballerina and the balance of a goat to skirt round it . |
| 29 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |
| 30 | Box ( 1987 ) argues that crimes committed by corporations , businesses and professions are likely to increase in times of economic recession although he admits that the evidence is less strong than for ‘ conventional ’ crimes ( see Chapter Four ) . |