Example sentences of "the [noun] of [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the provision of free or almost free housing leaves the farm worker no better off when comparisons are made with workers elsewhere , for the latter often receive benefits — cheap meals , pension funds , medical facilities , etc. — unavailable to farm workers . |
| 2 | The question at issue is not so much prison reform — although our prison buildings are now shamefully antiquated , obsolete and , for the most part , entirely unsuitable for use as penal establishments — as the provision of up-to-date and more enlightened methods of dealing with the problem of treating the offender , and in particular the juvenile offender . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that if you have a desire to test your horticultural skills in growing pears then a warm south wall is the ideal for the support of spur-pruned and carefully trained trees . |
| 4 | This is a major issue for an information provider , such as a library , because it draws attention to the obligation to supply support for users of a new and different kind , and to develop ways to reduce the dependence of historians of the future upon the support of more and more highly skilled staff . |
| 5 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 6 | Once these conditions were altered , children clearly contrasted the meanings of more and less even when their lexical knowledge was still imperfect . |
| 7 | On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . |
| 8 | Frank Peter Zimmermann is a fine artist , a most gifted player , who delivers admirable accounts of these three different Violin Concertos. he also has the advantage of committed and clearly well-rehearsed support from a very good orchestra under a talented conductor who follows him like a cat . |
| 9 | ( A political party finds a surplus as large as this very gratifying , because the votes made available for transfer will , if voters are loyal , go a long way to ensuring the election of one or even two of its less popular candidates . ) |
| 10 | Well , after much deliberation and a family pow-wow or two we decided we 'd give it a go one Sunday afternoon , between the hours of 2 and 6pm . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it is fairly obvious that " strong " stemming — the removal of longer and more " meaningful " suffixes such as " ization " " ism " and ability " often can not be done without drastically altering the sense of a search ( consider " organ " " organic " " organism " and " organization " ) . |
| 12 | Baldwin would go to the Ministry of Labour and there meet both the unions and the owners . |
| 13 | It encourages the purchase of strong and well known products and brands , and emphasises those products and services which confer status and make life as secure and predictable as possible . |
| 14 | Where the purchase of processed or partially processed inputs is outside the direct control of firms there is greater uncertainty about their quality and delivery schedules . |
| 15 | Mr Gorbachev 's words — and the wave of shrewd and generally conciliatory diplomatic actions that followed — sent a tremor through the American diplomatic establishment . |
| 16 | The first wave of British magic realists were open to world literature , flushed by the utopianism of 1968 and also , possibly , by the influence of long-playing hallucinogenic drugs . |
| 17 | In a milder way , the doctrine of ministerial responsibility also inhibits the mass of able and highly trained and experienced civil servants from contributing fully in their own professional associations and academic conferences , in case their opinions or comments on their own work or methods might catch a headline or embarrass a minister . |
| 18 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 19 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 20 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 21 | The main role of the National Savings movement is to collect the savings of small or relatively unsophisticated savers in order to finance borrowing by the public sector . |
| 22 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 23 | These differences may be significant given the potency of large and relatively prolonged aggregations for producing epidemics in experiments . |
| 24 | This suggests that the police are most likely to interpret an event as rape where it shares some of the characteristics of familiar and conspicuously criminal activity . |
| 25 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 26 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 27 | Held : A person who negligently starts a fire is liable for injuries suffered by a fireman while attempting to put out the fire , regardless of whether the particular injuries suffered by the fireman were reasonably foreseeable or whether the injuries were suffered as the result of exceptional or merely ordinary risks undertaken by the fireman . |
| 28 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 29 | Buddy Holly comes somewhere between the subjects of those and more parasitic biographies . |
| 30 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |