Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has exemplified the extremes of this aberration of outdoor endeavour more than Chris Townsend , so it serves him right that he is called to write a book on the subject . |
| 2 | Place the jar in a saucepan of cold water so that the jar is about ¾ covered by water . |
| 3 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 4 | Legislation has not only so multiplied that it is now the characteristic activity of the modern state , but it has been addressed to complicated matters which have increased the complexity and bulk of individual statutes so that they often go unread even by the legislators who pass them . |
| 5 | None knew the force of such reasoning better than the NIO which had been humbled by the general strike or the previous May . |
| 6 | Thus a consciousness of proved quality rather than a habit of self-questioning , as Arnold had no doubt intended , was often the result of a public school education . |
| 7 | If you took my recommendation of three years ago and developed a fingerstyle approach to your playing , you 'll have no problems here ! |
| 8 | If shares are being issued and listing particulars or a prospectus are required , reporting accountants may also be asked to provide a private comfort letter on the statement made by the directors as to the adequacy of working capital even if the transaction does not require formal comfort to be given . |
| 9 | In spite of these inconveniences , and their exploitation by British policy , it was the collapse of Spanish authority rather than a creole revolution which began the processes by which the Empire was destroyed . |
| 10 | A BBC spokesman ‘ totally refuted ’ the allegation of anti-Irish bias yesterday and said the piece was cut because the show over-ran . |
| 11 | Indeed one of this form of revisionism 's characteristic positions is to stress localised events happening as a result of localised pressures rather than as responses to larger national happenings or , especially , to articulated ideological movements . |
| 12 | The securities industry also demonstrates particularly well the dangers of going international as a result of external pressure rather than internally-perceived opportunities . |
| 13 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
| 14 | However , these resemblances are probably ‘ convergences ’ , similarities acquired as the result of similar needs rather than evidence of a direct connection with true primates . |
| 15 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 16 | His fatness seems to have been largely the result of good living rather than ill-health ; he had decided to separate from his wife , yet he was obviously in need of looking after . |
| 17 | The burden of debt has also declined slightly from its peak 1981 levels , but as a result of curtailed imports rather than increased hard currency earnings . |
| 18 | Third , major landscape changes appeared to be more and more confined to a change in either tenure or farming type , and were clearly the result of well-thought-out decisions rather than the often piecemeal changes of the 1960s . |
| 19 | This is partly to ensure that any increase in profitability can be identified as the result of improved efficiency rather than a change in the method of compiling the accounts . |
| 20 | The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules . |
| 21 | As any market matures it tends to split into clearly defined areas , mainly as a result of targeted marketing rather than any particularly identifiable product differences . |
| 22 | Many older people may consider any limitations of activity which they experience to be a result of old age rather than a chronic health problem . |
| 23 | In this view the accordant summits in areas like the ridge and valley province of the USA were interpreted as the inevitable result of dynamic equilibrium rather than as remnants of earlier erosion cycles , and this followed from the assumption ( Hack , 1960 , p. 81 ) that : |
| 24 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's going to be a real test of character to ensure we stay up because relegation is unthinkable for a club of this status just when the league is expanding . ’ |
| 26 | Where several bank accounts are used , provision is made for the pooling of those accounts so that any losses are spread among all the investors . |
| 27 | Five years ago , schools were asked to develop their programme of personal relationships so that the right sort of foundations could be laid at an early age . |
| 28 | Nevertheless he was able to show that , despite all this , the Company had , by a great act of faith , begun and carried through to partial completion a programme of overall improvement rather than just piecemeal adjustments . |
| 29 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 30 | As the Danish scholar Per Nykrog has observed , however , the corpus of fabliaux seems to be constituted of a certain stock of recognized tales rather than being the product of widespread and prolific extemporization as Bédier was inclined to believe . |