Example sentences of "of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 2 | Should the project go ahead , spent fuel would be stored in a series of air-cooled concrete vaults and kept there for fifty years , after which the company would decide whether it was to be reprocessed or buried . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He scored 822 runs at an average of 51.37 this summer . |
| 5 | But it 's the undertow of precocious sexuality , the child-woman come-on , that 's more worrying . |
| 6 | Out of a crop of precocious back division talent to whom Scotland will looking in the not-too-distant future , Gregor Peter John Townsend , who will not be 19 until April 26 , presents an amalgam of skill , pace and learning capacity that mark him as one of specially exciting potential . |
| 7 | If habituation is involved in displacing preferences away from the familiar to individuals that are slightly different , then the learning process may be facilitated by the performance of precocious sexual behaviour which is common enough in humans ( Finkelhor , 1980 ) as it is in other animals . |
| 8 | There is bred in them ( factory women ) a spirit of precocious independence which weakens family ties and is highly unfavourable to the growth of domestic virtues . ’ |
| 9 | John Hayward , for example , was by now a close friend : he was a bibliophile and editor of precocious talent , who in 1926 , at the age of twenty-one , had published an edition of Rochester 's poems . |
| 10 | For the first time she saw through his mask of precocious intelligence and saw how vulnerable he was , how frail in spite of all . |
| 11 | She accepted , and the picture of precocious , and faintly absurd depravity she presented , in her old , handed down dressing-gown , with her feet tucked up under her , her lank auburn hair about her face , and the cigarette cocked flamboyantly between the fingers of her left hand , gave him the keenest pleasure . |
| 12 | In the North Atlantic it has been recorded from off Madeira with a bathymetric range of 1500–1970 . |
| 13 | The spectrum was that of a very distant galaxy with redshift of 2.3 ( spectral lines shifted in wavelengths towards the red by 230% ) . |
| 14 | This would lead us to begin with the logical and data transfer operations of 2.3 and 2.4 . |
| 15 | Any other subdivisions can be accessed and manipulated by the logical operations of 2.3 . |
| 16 | Thus Rutland with a population of 28,000 was supposed to provide a full range of county services of the same standard as Lancashire with a population of 2.3 million . |
| 17 | This , together with the interim dividend of 2.3 pence per share paid on 5 October 1992 , would make a total for the year of 3.3 pence per share [ 1991 8.5 pence ] . |
| 18 | The cost of the intifada to the Israeli economy up to March 1989 , according to the Labour Party , was put at US$750,000,000 , effectively wiping out Israel 's economic growth in 1988 of 2.3 per cent . |
| 19 | The government also forecast GNP growth of 2.5 per cent in 1993 ( up from 1.3 per cent ) , and inflation of 2.3 per cent ( the same as predicted for 1992 ) . |
| 20 | The mean accident estimate was thus used to split the data into the ‘ junctions with the highest accident estimates and the 23 with the lowest ( 3 junctions with the median score of 2.3 were not included in this analysis ) . |
| 21 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
| 22 | The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g . |
| 23 | Scottish Opera , the biggest single beneficiary , receives £4,460,000 , a rise of 2.3 per cent . |
| 24 | Scottish Ballet gets £1.904 million , also an increase of 2.3 per cent . |
| 25 | Norway will be the leading producer with a 3 per cent rise in output to an average of 2.3 million bpd . |
| 26 | Professional interventions , far from being a source of help and support , are often another cause of upset and trouble . |
| 27 | She 's kind of upset about Mahoney . |
| 28 | I purchased a plant in December ‘ 91 which poisoned my aquarium causing the loss of fish , a great deal of upset , financial loss and a lot of hard work . |
| 29 | But it meant that an important part of Belinda 's work was to be on the alert for this kind of upset and do everything she could to minimise its effect . |
| 30 | They have caused a lot of upset in our family . |