Example sentences of "[det] a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a , is this a good feature to include on this day , while you 're thinking about it . |
| 2 | Those critics of the traditional nomination procedure may find this a welcome feature . |
| 3 | Coventry 's Great Fair was part of the festival of Corpus Christi at midsummer , and included a large procession , but it is unlikely that such a pagan feature as the nude ride would have survived the Church 's hostility . |
| 4 | Media presentation has now become such a critical feature of the process of negotiations and public image-making that those who do not give it its due credit are likely to find their credibility in question . |
| 5 | A number of grounds in the Republic have floodlight facilities and could have offered day-night matches which were such a successful feature of the competition in Australiasia . |
| 6 | It is this change ‘ in unison ’ that is such a distinctive feature of molecular drive . |
| 7 | For all elite theorists , explaining the operations of the legal system in liberal democracies is an important problem , since the control of legitimate coercion is such a distinctive feature of state power . |
| 8 | Lévi-Strauss focuses on the ambivalence which we have already seen to be such a distinctive feature of the Critique , pointing in particular to Sartre 's vacillation between two concepts of dialectical reason . |
| 9 | Large-scale deployment of the printed word and the image was such a powerful feature of the culture of antislavery because reformers could exploit technical developments and geographical expansion in printing , tendencies to specialisation in publishing and the establishment of a coherent national distribution network for books and pamphlets . |
| 10 | Because parental involvement is such a key feature , teachers also need to know about parents ' rights and responsibilities under the legislation , in addition to those of the school and LEA . |
| 11 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 12 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 13 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 14 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |
| 15 | Focus on the two-party system , the growing strength of the organized working-class and the gradual decline of the big single-issue movements which had been such a central feature of the mid-Victorian political scene were visible signs of this transformation . |
| 16 | Pat Langley calls such a conjectured feature an ’ intrinsic property ’ . |
| 17 | And he 's such a recognisable feature now that he 's become this odd advertising totem — a symbol of endurance and authenticity in a sometimes crummy world . |
| 18 | Since anti-Semitism was such a prominent feature of the Party 's public image , and that of its leader , whom many must have heard speak in person in the Munich beerhalls , it seems certain that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ ranked highly as a motivational factor at this date for the Movement 's recruits , often coming to the NSDAP from other anti-Semitic organizations and völkisch groups . |
| 19 | In some music ( e.g. the bourrée just mentioned ) modulation is such a prominent feature — it relieves the monotony of excessive repetition — that inevitably the melody must be written with the underlying harmonies in mind . |
| 20 | The open arable fields of the village had been enclosed by the agreement of the twenty-three owners of the strips in 1696 , but 7,740 acres of common pastures and rough moorland wastes remained undivided until the enclosure award of 1816 created the rectangular fields and straight lanes that are now such a prominent feature of the landscape . |
| 21 | As a result of this new alliance with the bishops , we see little of the anti-episcopalian rhetoric which had been such a prominent feature of the Whig platform during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 22 | Precisely how this requisite adjustment is effected is rarely discussed satisfactorily in this literature , particularly when one bears in mind the close connection between changes in money wages and changes in prices which is such a prominent feature of the pricing decision in most advanced market economies . |
| 23 | A typical letter in the correspondence columns of The Daily Mail in 1977 summed up the commonplace fears and aspirations which are arranged around this slogan : This kind of commonsense reasoning , invariably linked to the perceived upsurge in crime and mischief , has become such a day-to-day feature of life in contemporary Britain that one hears complaints phrased in the idiom of ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ amidst the gossip of bus queues , pubs and launderettes . |
| 24 | And it had become such a popular feature of Samana life . |
| 25 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 26 | Secondly , expert determination should be distinguished from the use of expert witnesses in litigation and arbitration , which is such a dominant feature of modern dispute resolution . |
| 27 | Well , remember that all this equality has only been achieved in one small part of the globe , and then mainly at the expense of the rest of the globe ; and that this inequality , once such a national feature , is now such an international feature that it has led to a bitterly destructive war between rich and poor nations ; and remember that that inequality is fed by an ever-hardening racial antagonism which enlightened men regard as the tragedy of our age . ) |
| 28 | They are not on our agenda , at least not until they become such a common feature , shared by so many others , that they qualify as ‘ social phenomena ’ . |
| 29 | Like him , she was an enthusiastic and skilful gardener : from a bare hillside they created the garden which is today such a delightful feature of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa . |
| 30 | Amiss had to restrain his impatience , knowing as he did that a distinguishing feature of Blenkinsop was that he had enjoyed any wine , as long as there was enough of it . |