Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 2 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 3 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 4 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 5 | In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses . |
| 6 | A provision for the payment of a salary to a partner , effectively as a preferential share of profits . |
| 7 | It is extremely difficult for workers in Community Mental Health Centres to focus their efforts effectively for a dispersed community of people with long-term problems if their work is constantly being interrupted by crises and emergency work . |
| 8 | write coherently about a wide range of issues , ideas , incidents , etc ; organising different kinds of text in ways which help the reader ; |
| 9 | These are not to be understood as a simple cycle of something being externalized as object , recognized as such , and then embodied , but rather as a complex series of strategies which may include splitting and inversion . |
| 10 | Soon after our article ( perhaps as a direct result of it ) , it began to rain — and has barely stopped since . |
| 11 | Final preparation of the bud consists of cutting square the top tip of the bud shield , and lightly bending back the other tongue end just enough for a tiny sliver of pith wood behind the eye to lift . |
| 12 | Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs . |
| 13 | The racist imagination turns the world upside down , but it does so through a conservative appropriation of existing structures and discourses of power . |
| 14 | It was completely contrary to Lord Darlington 's natural tendencies to take such public stances as he came to do and I can say with conviction that his lordship was persuaded to overcome his more retiring side only through a deep sense of moral duty . |
| 15 | In the nineteenth century , divorce was more or less impossible except for the very wealthy , initially only through a private Act of parliament . |
| 16 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 17 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 18 | On the contrary , it is only through a phenomenological clarification of the structure of experiences that the logical properties of such sentences can be made fully transparent . |
| 19 | He writes : ‘ No knowledgeable reading researcher disputes the fact that a higher level of national literacy will come only through a higher level of nationally shared information . ’ |
| 20 | The relevant factors to consider in investment appraisal are likely to be different for each product and can be determined only through a thorough understanding of the company 's and industry 's actual and specific situation . |
| 21 | You find a parallel world that knows great beauty but can speak only through a tiny box of plastic and tin . |
| 22 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 23 | It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die . |
| 24 | As a consequence of these complications the Modular Course has to operate a planning and response structure , through its own committees and crucially through a termly meeting of Heads of Departments contributing to the Course , that is not only sensitive to overall Polytechnic directives but also ensures a sensible collaborative response . |
| 25 | So much for a daring display of primitive combat ! |
| 26 | The University acts as a magnet not only for a wide range of able students from across the UK , but world-wide . |
| 27 | For example , in Brazil , peripheral capitalist development is responsible not only for a lower level of participation of women in agriculture but also a lower level of integration of women in urban development . |
| 28 | One limitation of this as a punishment is that it may not be very severe — it may imply a moderate loss of profit relative to the collusive agreement — and so may support collusion only for a small set of discount rates . |
| 29 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 30 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |