Example sentences of "[adv] universal [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in spite of a much less universal use of music than formerly , the monastic musical tradition remains a vital one . |
| 2 | In local government this is not so much a problem because of the wholesale reorganisation of local government in 1974 which followed a more or less universal pattern in terms of new structures and new functions . |
| 3 | Without a strategy which forces the researcher to make contrasts , there will be a tendency to slide into a more universal conception of social representation , as more and more diffuse phenomena become labelled as ‘ social representations ’ . |
| 4 | Although income was more equally distributed among older people in Britain than in the other six nations , this emphasises the more universal impact of age discrimination in this country as well as its greater penalty . |
| 5 | Everywhere one notices attempts to introduce greater purity , greater justice , greater perfection and a more universal explanation of things . |
| 6 | This figure rose to 93% of women with children under 9 , showing a more universal agreement on the subject of childcare than on any other issue . |
| 7 | It must be emphasised that the preceding information does not constitute some new revolutionary theory , but echoes a once universal understanding of the true workings of nature embraced by the knowledgeable in every high civilisation of the past , and perhaps intuitively felt by most sensitive individuals who have not been bludgeoned by the dull instruments of Western reductionism . |
| 8 | In the Eikon Basilike ‘ the primitive , apostolical and anciently universal government of the Church by Bishops ’ is praised . |
| 9 | BREASTFEEDING — Suckling ; a still nearly universal way of feeding infants and young children in most developing countries , first exclusively by lactation ( full breastfeeding that often lasts about three to six months ) , then introducing supplementary food ( partial breastfeeding that may last for several years until weaning ) . |
| 10 | In the light of the nearly universal trend towards earlier age at menarche and the rising age at marriage , there is in many countries a resulting larger gap in time between sexual and social maturity and between fecundable age and the ages at which childbearing becomes socially desirable . |
| 11 | Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) speak of a ‘ nearly universal decline of cartels ’ . |
| 12 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 13 | There seems to be an almost universal delight in trying out all the fonts on one page ! |
| 14 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 15 | In reality it has only become an almost universal standard in the course of history . |
| 16 | The idea that the horrors of civilization represent a decline from a golden age of natural virtue in which ancestral man lived in an unspoiled Paradise , is an almost universal characteristic of myths of origin , the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden being a very typical example . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there has been one almost universal factor behind the emergence of the extreme right . |
| 18 | Our thesis that the mucosal adaptive changes are related to static faecal residue contact is very much supported by the intermediate pathological scores for the body mucosal biopsy specimens and the almost universal lacl of noticeable change in the proximal limb specimens . |
| 19 | The scope for graft latent in many Asian societies was aggravated in Indo-China by the dependence of French police officers , in their almost universal ignorance of the native languages , upon the inquiries and operations of a class of Indian , Chinese , Eurasian , and other non-native informers whose venality became a byword . |
| 20 | His regime had enjoyed almost universal support in the poor , largely agrarian north , his home area , but was widely unpopular in the more heavily populated south where the repressive methods of his 18-year rule had been most keenly felt . |
| 21 | Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners . |
| 22 | Lastly , the opponents of drainage schemes have long complained about the secrecy with which the Ministry of Agriculture and the water authorities have shrouded their calculations , together with their almost universal resistance to public inquiries , which are now a normal part of the process of consultation preceding road and reservoir schemes . |
| 23 | An example from the 1920s is the almost universal influence of Chaplin and jazz in the avant-garde . |
| 24 | Some form of property taxes are an almost universal source of income for local government , but in many parts of the world they are accompanied by other forms of taxation . |
| 25 | But the advent of almost universal programming in high-level languages alters the requirements of a computer 's instruction set . |
| 26 | Battle , Murder , and Death , Venuses and Psyches , the bloody and voluptuous , are the things in which they seem to delight : and these are portrayed in a cold , hard , and often tawdry style , with an almost universal deficiency of chiaroscuro ; the whole artificial , labored and theatrical . |
| 27 | But against the almost universal acceptance within the established political networks that nuclear energy was ‘ safe and sound ’ , there was a sense of powerlessness which inevitably drove people to the barricades . |
| 28 | By the 1980s , in the wake of the stagflation and slow growth in even the rich economies of the Western Europe , came an equally almost universal loss of faith in the capacity of any individual state to intervene decisively and effectively . |
| 29 | Many East Germans say that , though they themselves do not want to leave , there is almost universal resentment at the official lies and the unbending attitudes of the authorities , who , by cancelling visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia this week , made it even more difficult to escape what one person called ‘ our cage ’ . |
| 30 | ( Why , for instance , the widespread horror of miscegenation and the almost universal belief among whites that ‘ half-breeds ’ inherited precisely the worst features of their parents ' races ? ) |