Example sentences of "of [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The invisibility of women in the sociology of work is guaranteed by the choice of predominantly masculine jobs in research design . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Apparently forged from a mad mixture of screamingly right-on individuals from West Coast hardcore outfits , Rage Against The Machine are everything millions of moshpit enthusiasts have come to expect from music , only several times better . |
| 7 | The Bush administration responded by prohibiting the use of dead fetal tissues for research of any kind in institutions supported by federal funds . |
| 8 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There were all these different characters pursuing activities of vastly varying degrees of dodginess . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But many other researchers have concluded that legal intervention is of extremely limited value in truancy cases . |
| 13 | The flute is an extremely agile instrument both in scale and arpeggio work , staccato and legato ( but in its low register the staccato is difficult of clear articulation and is safer avoided ) and is capable of extremely rapid repetition by double- or triple-tonguing in the medium and upper registers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They can encourage the development of entirely new forms of warehousing and distribution reliant on road transport , resulting in further environmental impact . |
| 16 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Guinness uniquely among brewers , has demonstrated the ability and flexibility to form a variety of mutually rewarding partnerships with organisation both inside and outside the brewing industry . |
| 19 | This has resulted in improved borehole conditions enabling the recording of greatly superior quality of log information ; a dolomite mud has been particularly successful in keeping the borehole in perfect shape . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The degree of reflation ‘ required ’ will therefore tend to be overestimated by governments in a synchronized upswing , if they rely on past experience derived from periods of less international synchronization of business cycles . |
| 22 | The first , which is , of course , also a point of particular although not exclusive concern to large numbers of less well-off people over pension age , is the further large increase in the special income support limits for those in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The creation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 represented an attempt to co-ordinate the responses of less powerful states to superpower pressure through the establishment of a ‘ third way ’ — an independent posture aligned to neither the capitalist West nor the communist East . |
| 25 | Unfortunately a monochromatic beam is of only limited use for spectroscopy unless it is tunable . |
| 26 | All the chairmen made an effort to reply to inaccurate or unverifiable press criticism , and to stress their Boards ' positive work in maintaining supplies in difficult conditions of great austerity , but experience proved truth to be of only limited effectiveness against prejudice . |
| 27 | She only managed to hail a taxi after fifteen minutes of running , and when she did she was almost afraid that he would not drive her because of her soaked condition , but , after a stream of highly ominous muttering in French , he finally let her in . |
| 28 | In Stuart 's view , one way of perhaps increasing value for money is encouraging our customers to pay for certain areas of research . |
| 29 | Student activity and the resurgence of trade unionism , already discussed , were obvious facets of thus new version of steadfastness . |
| 30 | Combining with other interests of broadly similar aims in affiliation to , or support of , a political party significantly strengthens the political clout of a particular group . |