Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a relevant feature of the later style of Henry James that he favours manner adverbs , and avoids adjectives . |
| 2 | The same is true where harmonic colour is to be a prominent feature of the music . |
| 3 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 4 | Although the detent torque is less than the motor torque with one or more windings fully excited , it can be a useful feature in applications where the rotor position must be preserved during a power failure . |
| 5 | Such poor quality teaching has been described in similar terms in a range of reports by the HMI on different age sectors within the education service — on primary and middle schools , for instance — and continues to be a consistent feature of their ongoing commentary on the quality of the present teaching force . |
| 6 | Participation by developing nations which are expanding the use of gill-nets in their coastal waters will be a key feature of the workshop , scheduled for October 1990 . |
| 7 | Countryside Management Agreements , described above , will be a key feature in this shift of CAP resources from price support to environmental goals . |
| 8 | Development of facilities will be a key feature of both positions . |
| 9 | Empowerment through widespread use of communication of information has been seen by Clark ( 1979 ) to be a key feature of the ringi-ko decision-making system , where printed documents circulate widely through the enterprise for comment and discussion . |
| 10 | What seems to be a regular feature , however , is that a leading élite , often in the name of the culture of one dominant ethnic group within a state , will peddle its own notion of homogeneity . |
| 11 | Opportunities for peer review among teachers of nurses should be a regular feature of the Department of Nurse Education . |
| 12 | Site visits and museum visits should be a regular feature in the schemes of work for history . |
| 13 | I think it ought to be a regular feature , a regular feature for everywhere regardless , because it was felt that er during the the May play which proved to be wrong |
| 14 | The coffee morning is to be a regular feature and will be held at Harewood House every second Saturday in the month . |
| 15 | Age discrimination seems to be a major feature of the British employment scene . |
| 16 | The Governments plans for dealing with young offenders will be a major feature of Queens speech next week . |
| 17 | A day care centre for people with learning difficulties will be a major feature of the centre , along with support and care counselling for the elderly , infirm and sick . |
| 18 | However , the system of floating exchange rates was thought at the time to be a temporary feature of the international monetary system : it was hoped that a new framework would be found for a return to some kind of adjustable peg in which the burden of adjustment was clearly defined , both for deficit and surplus countries , and in which reserve assets were not based primarily on one currency . |
| 19 | Disgust at cruel sports came to be a distinguishing feature of British life . |
| 20 | The state of the play we read — often a composite version constructed by a modern editor — may be a necessary feature of study , but it should not hide the fact that the playing of Renaissance drama was performed in circumstances where the cultural place of the play was very different to that of the present . |
| 21 | The objectives of the Network do not include distribution of a large volume of third party sell situations , although some involvement in them may be a necessary feature of certain domestic M&A marketplaces . |
| 22 | It seems to be a general feature of evolution that new functions are performed by organs which arise , not de novo , but as modifications of pre-existing organs . |
| 23 | This retrospective way of thinking tended to be a general feature of thought in countries such as India and China . |
| 24 | Discrimination against elderly people , however , appears to be a general feature of cancer treatment . |
| 25 | From this , it may be argued that the presence of fold singularities in regions II and III appears to be a general feature of colliding plane wave problems . |
| 26 | This was found to be a general feature of elastomers because of the presence in most polymers of water soluble impurities . |
| 27 | Flexibility and the location of ligand-binding sites close to the top of adhesion molecules may be a general feature of their organization . |
| 28 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
| 29 | Interestingly , pou[c] is able to stimulate initiation of adenovirus DNA replication in vitro ( C.P.Verrijzer and P.C.van der Vliet , personal communication ) suggesting that this ability may also be a general feature of POU domain proteins . |
| 30 | And it may be that the extent to which the bank has left it to the husband to procure the wife 's consent and to explain the transaction to her will be a critical feature of the case . |