Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Baudelaire , arguably the godfather of aesthetic modernism , broke with the foundationalist assumptions of realism to celebrate the transitory , the fleeting , the contingent . |
| 2 | These indicators of the native film industry 's weakness encouraged The Federation of British Industries to intensify its campaign to bring attention to the way in which the disappearance of British films from the world 's screens impacted on ‘ the prestige of the country as a whole , and thereby the prestige of British industry also ’ . |
| 3 | From these three major sources it can be seen that rape and sexual assault are very rarely the subject of investigative journalism outside of some judicial context . |
| 4 | Although this is convenient for busy human owners , it is too much for the cat to eat at once , unless it is starving — which is rarely the case with well-loved family pets . |
| 5 | It is very rarely the case in real life that we can predict in detail the form and content of the language which we will encounter , but , given all of the ethnographic information we have specified , the actual occurring utterance is much more likely ( hence , we assume , much more readily processed by the addressee ) than any of the following ‘ utterances ’ which did not occur : |
| 6 | Japanese universities are rarely the home of world-class R&D , though this is changing slowly . |
| 7 | The composition of teams in schools is rarely the result of systematic analysis of functional needs and recruitment by logically derived criteria . |
| 8 | Ovulation is interrupted when weight loss or gain is exaggerated in either direction , and dietary advice is rarely the answer for long-term eating disorders . |
| 9 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 10 | Thus , to grasp properly the significance of popular dancing in the mid-nineteenth century — the waltz , for example — it is necessary to look not only at the waltz culture of the popular classes but also at such factors as : the peasant sources of the waltz ; the use made of those sources in bourgeois culture ; the changing social relations involved in the growth of industrial capitalism , to which the romanticizing of popular culture found in bourgeois waltzing , together with its cultivation of an explicit sensuality , was probably a reaction ; the tendency of the social developments to result in the atomization of established collective social patterns and modes of corporeal expression , leading , among avant-garde composers , to a music more overtly of thought and feeling , as against a music of social gesture ; the way these same composers , by way of reaction to that situation , incorporated spiritualized versions of dance elements in their music . |
| 11 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 12 | Other approaches are marginalized as being ‘ theoretical ’ ( that is , not sufficiently practical ) or perhaps more properly the concern of another discipline . |
| 13 | He has only come to appreciate properly the importance of loving discipline and the need for obedience since he and Maggie have had children themselves . |
| 14 | It could be argued that in agreeing to a single date the project leader is taking decisions more properly the province of higher management . |
| 15 | It could be argued that in agreeing to a single date the project leader is taking decisions more properly the province of higher management . |
| 16 | Regretfully the pattern of past legislation leaves little confidence that satisfactory answers will be found . |
| 17 | All through The Scale Hilton hangs his thinking on the pegs of Scriptural texts interpreted as revealing figuratively the nature of spiritual reality . |
| 18 | Somehow a professional , presumably the beneficiary of full-time coaching and training , contrived to lose to her . |
| 19 | If children have specific questions to answer , then their reading is given a clear purpose , and purposeful reading is presumably the aim of all teaching of reading . |
| 20 | However , a landing was never actually achieved without breaking the cotton , presumably the result of nervous reaction on the part of the pilot , rather than instability . |
| 21 | RIGHT The use of Electronic Distance Measurement ( EDM ) is a very accurate method of undertaking surveys and of establishing the precise location of finds on an excavation . |
| 22 | The town represents overwhelmingly the focus of political power in Zambia today . |
| 23 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 24 | Entertaining such a dream was naive ; yet , compared to Cézanne , who shared the instinct to hide away from civilisation , he was paradoxically the epitome of subtle thought , as his letters increasingly testified . |
| 25 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 26 | The Gild Merchant was a close , self-selecting body with its own hall , effectively the centre of urban government . |
| 27 | Secondly , their process of anchoring changes fundamentally the nature of common sense . |
| 28 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 29 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |
| 30 | The shift to a broader notion of fairness is said to alter fundamentally the basis of procedural intervention : it can no longer be restricted to adjudicative settings , and there can no longer be fixed standards for determining whether there has been a breach of procedural fairness . |