Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here he uses a telling quotation : ‘ Evolution is the root of atheism , of communism , nazism , behaviorism , racism , economic imperialism , militarism , libertinism , anarchism and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice . ’
2 If the frequency difference between half-power points on the resonance curve is then it can be shown that , for small loss , the loss factor The vibrating reed method may therefore be used to plot the loss-factor/ temperature " spectrum " ( although for precise work the change of resonant frequency with temperature needs to be compensated for by , for example , time-temperature superposition .
3 The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components .
4 ROUGH TRADE Your Rights Explained Chris Roan is Head of Technical Services for Cambridgeshire County Council 's Trading Standards Department .
5 With the necessary minimum of technical instruction on camera and sound work the group then set to work to produce their own video film .
6 Brundle looks askance when he is asked if he has ever read the books of technical instruction in race-driving written by Pierro Taruffi and Alain Prost , among others .
7 These firms make particular use of technical knowledge about equipment , procedures , designs , or production processes ; and marketplace knowledge — detailed familiarity with a customer 's problem or proposed use for a product .
8 Systems will be set up and maintained whereby progress reports in terms of technical achievement against plan and cost expenditure against budget within the same timespan are collated and integrated for regular submission to the Project Committee and IEATP 's Monitoring Officer .
9 Environmental concentration of legionellae might have been underestimated because of technical obstacles to detection .
10 Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist .
11 It seems that the average level of technical success in Japan is high , which would correspond to general perception , with individualism , where present , seen as an undesirable influence detracting from realization of company policy .
12 The famed Cucumber Bookshop in Rockville , Maryland which has hundreds of technical titles in stock has launched an international mail-order company , the only one to specialise in Unix and C including C++ and the object-oriented .
13 Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households .
14 Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] .
15 We then move on , in Chapter 4 , to examine in detail the various arguments put forward about the likely effects of technical change on workers ' experience of their jobs .
16 In 1985 there were large seminars or workshops on the impact of microprocessors on employment , on telecommunications , the process-equipment industries , the food processing industry , the management of technical change in Japan , the prospective developments in medicial technologies , a large number on changing skill requirements , co-operation in pre-competitive R&D , the future of the UK steel industry , and on the potential impact of technical change on the employability of the less able .
17 The section on debt contained provisions on support for indebted ACP countries , mainly in the form of technical support for debt management and ( through structural adjustment support ) for tackling the imbalances which were the root causes of indebtedness .
18 The third ‘ sacred myth ’ of literacy is that transferring a set of technical skills to illiterates will of itself create the necessary conditions for economic growth and prosperity .
19 For the purposes of technical research of course ; - ) .
20 ‘ We work for some 2000 customers and a magazine such as this will contribute to the awareness of technical issues in industry . ’
21 While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control .
22 Europen — which is making a gradual transition from the academic roots of its EUUG days to a more commercially led organisation , has a long-established record of technical conferences through Europe , while UniForum 's last US show and conference attracted 35,000 attendees .
23 The largest amount of technical co-operation for Asia comes from Japan ( $115m in 1991 ) and , just as Britain and France give priority in aid to the Commonwealth and former French overseas territories for historical , political and economic reasons , Japan has placed priority on Asia .
24 There were several partial carcases in the nest consisting of articulated legs of mammals and wings and limbs of birds .
25 In contrast , a significantly higher extent of cytoplasmic expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 was noted in patients without active hepatitis B virus replication than in those with .
26 Semiquantitative analysis revealed that the degrees of cytoplasmic expression of pre-S1 as well as pre-S2 were significantly higher in patients without active hepatitis B virus replication than in those with ( Table III ) .
27 Moreover , a significantly higher degree of cytoplasmic expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 was noted in patients without active hepatitis B virus replication than in those with ( Table V ) .
28 " This is the century which sees the erosion of half-free forms of labour , the decline of living-in , the final extinction of labour services and the advance of free , mobile , wage labour . "
29 Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded .
30 BELOW : The two pairs of surviving stones at Aston Mill .
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