Example sentences of "of [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | But it 's the undertow of precocious sexuality , the child-woman come-on , that 's more worrying . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For the first time she saw through his mask of precocious intelligence and saw how vulnerable he was , how frail in spite of all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Professional interventions , far from being a source of help and support , are often another cause of upset and trouble . |
| 12 | She 's kind of upset about Mahoney . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They have caused a lot of upset in our family . |
| 16 | B , smoking status , alright , now this caused a little bit of upset , and I think we just like to clarify that . |
| 17 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 18 | Against all this the ESP addicts will retort that there is one feat performed by some cats that requires an acceptance of telepathic communication between human owner and lost feline . |
| 19 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 20 | The arrogance of Bolshevik-inspired youth towards the patriarchal rural community also transpires from other criticisms directed against younger visitors . |
| 21 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 22 | The small block of semi-refined sugar , like cement , took a long time to dissolve . |
| 23 | It was paradoxical because although the subject was very deeply asleep , being completely relaxed and more difficult to wake than at any other time during the night , the EEG pattern was that of alert wakefulness . |
| 24 | The 12,000 American troops in Panama remained on the highest state of alert and largely confined to their bases . |
| 25 | Nicaragua said its army had been placed on ‘ a maximum state of alert ’ because of the ‘ brutal aggression ’ by the US . |
| 26 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 27 | ‘ There are different levels of alert depending on the seriousness of the fire , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | There is one particular reason why the Rat must be given the role of alert guardian and subordinate . |
| 29 | When President Nixon put all US forces on a heightened state of alert during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 , it ‘ meant ’ that he was worried and ready to intervene . |
| 30 | The reliance on " intuitive observation " in selection means that a heavy burden falls on the reader 's training in the art of alert reading , and of responding to linguistic and other cues . |