Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 2 | More widely within society , it is argued , competitive individualism challenges collectivism ; the provision of services through the state is abandoned in favour of privatization so expanding again the sphere of potential profit-making . |
| 3 | * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study . |
| 4 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 5 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 6 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 7 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 8 | If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate . |
| 9 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 10 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 11 | However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept . |
| 12 | If the torque/position characteristics for one phase excitation is notably non-sinusoidal then the effect of two-phases-on excitation can be checked quite easily using the graphical summation method . |
| 13 | He attacks oralism as an additional depriving agent since it insists on having no further stimulation other than speech , when it is the language stimulation which is most important not the modality of stimulation . |
| 14 | It 's immediately obvious how the thickness of the deposit varies away from the vent , and it 's also possible to work out fairly rapidly the total volume of ash erupted . |
| 15 | Beth had long ago given up the idea of winning the old man over . |
| 16 | Indeed , according to Beatrice Webb , ‘ So far as I know , no member of the Labour Party , certainly not any Front Bench man , foresaw the possibility of a Labour Government arising out of the election ’ , and most expected either a continuation of the Conservative government or a renewal of Conservative/Liberal coalition . |
| 17 | It is quite remarkable how the denial of death , and the denial of the secret wishes for the death of others , persists even among those who have read Freud and have been analysed . |
| 18 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that this is crucial to the development of the disease state , as application of amiloride by aerosol alleviates the decline in lung function in CF. It is not yet clear how a loss of CFTR function leads to this increase in sodium absorption . |
| 20 | If the glissade is too emphatic then the step of grande élévation , the highlight of a sentence , will lose its impact . |
| 21 | If it is set too high then the end of tape may be physically reached and Offline will believe there is still space available . |
| 22 | If the production quantities are very high then the purchase of a simple drafting system may be justified and an investment could be made in some CAM equipment . |
| 23 | If the state is subjected to a requirement of comprehensive neutrality and if its duties to its citizens are very wide-ranging then the principle of comprehensive neutrality is a principle of neutrality indeed . |
| 24 | Very good very good now a lot of people take a long time to get that . |
| 25 | attractive but it did n't fly very far probably the aim of the game . |
| 26 | but there 's very well confused about the increase er regarded that when your foot , footways forward , cos I think that 's been er , been very essential really the standard of footpaths in charge of the roads and areas these day and er to spend money on that with great , great move . |