Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |
| 2 | For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
| 4 | The Marxist claim that a socialist revolution will inaugurate a classless society , an end to all forms of domination and the withering away of the state is just another myth of popular control , propagated by an emerging counter-elite , the leadership of the new industrial working class . |
| 5 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 6 | The people , exploited economically , socially and politically by capitalism would rise up and seize the state for themselves ( socialism ) and then replace it ( after the withering away of the state ) by a system of communism . |
| 7 | He prophesied that the triumph of communism would lead to the withering away of the state . |
| 8 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
| 9 | ‘ The question is , should we , for the good of the diocese , for the good indeed of the Church , keep knowledge of that problem out of the hands of the police or , at least , the press ? ’ |
| 10 | So how does it feel , Sir Edmund , to be the hunted instead of the hunter ? ’ |
| 11 | This transition is a consequence of the growing together of the Computing and Library departments , together with the storage of more information on CD ROM and other media . |
| 12 | After all , the facilities are basically the same regardless of the price and the additional features may be of no real use at all . |
| 13 | However , the principles are the same regardless of the extent that MINSE is applied , and only the purpose of the investigation will determine the depth of analysis needed and the amount of resources that are worth employing . |
| 14 | This allows the construction of a riskless hedge in which the pay-offs are the same regardless of the outcome . |
| 15 | It 'll make a change for him to cook in the open instead of the kitchen . ’ |
| 16 | At least some animal viruses are released by a budding outwards of the cell membrane ( reversing the process of endocytosis ) to produce a free virus surrounded by a piece of membrane taken from the infected cell ( G in Figure 2 ) . |
| 17 | The great obstacle , however , to a withering away of the state pension is the fact that , although in economic reality current pensions are paid from current contributions and other taxes , the state pension scheme has been institutionalised as a structure of vested rights or expectations stretching forward over half a century . |
| 18 | In the month of May 1958 , on the eve of a disastrous tearing-apart of the nation and faced by the utter prostration of the system which was supposedly in charge , de Gaulle , now well-known but with no resource except his legitimacy , had to take destiny in his hands . |