Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , most of them are by Americans , for it is in the American academy that the pressure for change , for constantly new forms of newness , is greatest . |
| 2 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 3 | Theoretical models are constructed to analyse the relationship between the desire for seasonally varying levels of expenditure and the associated pattern in consumer debt and savings . |
| 4 | For another , FSP theory often forms the basis for highly relevant discussions of translation problems and strategies ( see , for example , Hatim , 1984 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ; Hatim and Mason , 1990 ) , and basic familiarity with this approach tends to be taken for granted by those exploring its relevance to translation studies . |
| 5 | Radicals wanted to see progress towards humankind as the central theme , but conservatives like Owen , worried about the status of the human soul , preferred more complex patterns of development that allowed for entirely new levels of organization to be introduced from time to time . |
| 6 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 7 | This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity . |
| 8 | They concluded that there were a number of rather different sorts of town and city in Britain with dramatically varying levels of high-status jobs , social-welfare and educational provision . |
| 9 | It delineated permitted forms of sexuality , such as those directed towards economically necessary levels of reproduction , and it regulated sexualities which exceeded these limits . |
| 10 | The Mendeleev Table appeared at first sight to conclude the study of the atomic theory by setting a limit to the existence of fundamentally different kinds of matter . |
| 11 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 12 | Reverting now to spatio-temporal relations , the assumption of their irreducibility to monadic predicates is linked with the assumption that they depict an objective order , and if such relations are taken to depict an objective order , then it is clear that we shall have to assume the possibility of a plurality of biographically distinct points of view , occupied by different percipients , before we can make any significant inferences about the ontological distinguishability of their terms . |
| 13 | Whatever display and interaction techniques are used , it seems clear that a system which aims to satisfy the widely differing needs of widely differing types of user must already incorporate some degree of adaptivity . |
| 14 | There were all these different characters pursuing activities of vastly varying degrees of dodginess . |
| 15 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 16 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 17 | They can encourage the development of entirely new forms of warehousing and distribution reliant on road transport , resulting in further environmental impact . |
| 18 | And indeed in some cases of conversation , the maintenance of rapport , the sharing of affective territory , the achievement of mutually acceptable states of mind is not the means towards an effective communicative transaction but the very object of the interaction itself . |
| 19 | This was the result of the expectations of inadequate and wavering returns , because of gently deteriorating terms of trade between primary products and manufactures , and fear of investing in politically volatile , or potentially volatile , Third World countries . |
| 20 | Its use in other groups of patients is likely to remain controversial , particularly with the introduction of less invasive methods of cholecystectomy , such as minicholecystectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 21 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |
| 22 | It is important to remember , however , that the village has declined in significance as a social centre for even the ‘ locals ’ among the population , thanks to the growth of largely privatized forms of leisure , such as television . |
| 23 | However , the Yates decision should not be regarded as authority for the proposition that a collection of individually non-confidential items of information can not be the subject of confidentiality where the confidentiality lies in the fact that they are collected together . |
| 24 | I hope you will agree that cycling is beneficial to the environment and that trends towards more sustainable forms of transport should be encouraged . |
| 25 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 26 | The documents and articles look towards more democratic forms of communication and outline a new vision for the 21st century . |
| 27 | In local government in particular we have seen substantial moves towards more decentralised forms of service provision in terms of area offices , or neighbourhood forums . |
| 28 | From this point onwards , Piaget 's account progresses towards more complex forms of symbolism through which the adult 's conceptual apparatus and capacity for cognitive representation are fully developed . |
| 29 | Europe , emerging in the late eleventh century , after an era of wars and invasions during the " Dark Ages " , to a period of relative peace , began to look towards more settled forms of government . |
| 30 | Although often associated with structuralism , semiotic analysts is involved in the details of representation and signification , while structuralism proper eschewed this concern with a drive towards more abstract models of cognition and culture . |