Example sentences of "of [adj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients over the age of 70 are particularly at risk ( 44% of accidents involved that age group ) . |
| 2 | The first meeting of 1886 was specially convened to pay tribute to the work of the late Mr. Lister Ives , Under Master since Coombes had left in 1862 , and to express sympathy to Mrs. Ives and her daughter . |
| 3 | Restitution questions over property nationalised by the State following the communist putsch of 1948 are also damaging relations between galleries and the public . |
| 4 | The people of Ben Ami were not frightened but they were prepared for an enemy ; and visitors interested in the Arab–Jewish war of 1948 were well advised to present convincing explanations for their questions before they stirred memories too deeply . |
| 5 | The first three kinds of honorific were clearly distinguished by Comrie ( 1976b ) , who pointed out that traditional descriptions have often confused ( i ) and ( ii ) : the distinction is that in ( i ) respect can only be conveyed by referring to the " target " of the respect , whereas in ( ii ) it can be conveyed without necessarily referring to the target . |
| 6 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 7 | Expression of Oct-2 was also studied by Northern analysis in the myeloma cell lines using an Oct-2 POU domain probe ( Figure 5b ) . |
| 8 | The carboxy terminal region of Oct-11 is significantly shorter than either Oct-1 or Oct-2 . |
| 9 | The POU domain of Oct-11 was originally isolated in a screen for novel POU domain genes expressed during spermatogenesis ( 30 ) . |
| 10 | The period of the Attlee governments of 1945–51 was particularly prone to retrospective retouching by the ideologically driven in the mid-1980s , as Paul Addison noted in the Preface to the second of his two outstanding studies of the 1940s : |
| 11 | Lotus marketing manager , Neil Hudspeth , says , ‘ considering there is n't a fully operating Alpha system out there yet , the next generation of 1–2-3 is still a twinkle in the eye . ’ |
| 12 | Er well I realize we 're beg being given illustrations , but I do n't think there 's anybody really dissenting apart from Mr , to the inclusion of eleven is there . |
| 13 | The legislation of 1861 was undoubtedly flawed , but it also set in train changes which affected most levels of Russian government and all levels of Russian society . |
| 14 | Section 6 of the Act of 1980 was substantially amended by section 30 of the Act of 1988 . |
| 15 | the extent to which bureaucracies can indulge in co-optation will obviously vary from country to country , but the reciprocal relationship that develops between administrative agencies and client groups to the mutual benefit of each is very widespread . |
| 16 | In 1975/76 Chichester Harbour held internationally important populations of Brent Goose , Shelduck , Ringed Plover , Grey Plover , Black-tailed Godwit , Dunlin , and Sanderling , that is , the population of each was more than one per cent . |
| 17 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the truce of 1396 was never properly observed . |
| 18 | It would seem that on the basis of recent research in the U.S.A. the answer would be ‘ no ’ as it has been suggested that even a panel of eight is too small to obtain consistent and reliable results . |
| 19 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 20 | Children around the age of eight are especially vulnerable to the influence of television . |
| 21 | Their observations concerning the insatiable appetite for immediate team success from the age of eight are so relevant . |
| 22 | The Ring of Eight was originally founded to dance at Christchurch Folk Festival but as well as dancing at festivals we also travel to craft fairs around the South of England and perform locally for the National Trust and other charities . |
| 23 | It was calculated that in Prussia at the end of the century 1,700,000 men in a total population of 8,700,000 were completely exempt from military service ( 1,170,000 because of privileges possessed by most of the Prussian towns , 530,000 because of their social status or occupation ) . |
| 24 | The other major issue of 1935 was also a non-event for the BUF . |
| 25 | The General Election of 1935 was largely conducted in response to this attitude . |
| 26 | It is nothing of the sort : however often houseguests at Balmoral may find themselves entrapped into games of charades after dinner , they retire to bed secure in the knowledge that a staff of 120 is plenty large enough to provide each couple with their personal footman and maid . |
| 27 | The summer of 1925 was hardly the most propitious moment for the textile unions to make their stand against further wage reductions . |
| 28 | Er fifth of that 's just next month ? |
| 29 | Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd . |
| 30 | And the thought of that is just too much . |