Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed obesity is a disease of the poor rather than the rich . |
| 2 | But this imitation of well-established exemplars is another mark of the psychotic rather than the genuine mystic . |
| 3 | He says that ‘ when the dictionary , the grammar and the style book seem to rule okay , we find the language of the street , of the bar , of the market-place , of the many rather than the few , striking back and changing our own , educated perceptions of what English really is . ’ |
| 4 | The problem has been one of acceptability , and that may be a reflection of the practical rather than the academic nature of police surgeons ' work . |
| 5 | The claim of the second is a reason against accepting the claim of the first only when the two authorities are incompatible , as are the claims of two governments to be legitimate governments of one country . |
| 6 | the victim of the whole burnt-offering is a male because the male is more complete , more dominant than the female , closer akin to causal activity , for the female is incomplete and in subjection and belongs to the category of the passive rather than the active . |
| 7 | One way of viewing these results is to suggest that what determines use of the passive rather than the active is selection of the acted-upon as the first noun to be mentioned . |
| 8 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 9 | What he and we were curious about in turn was the present and future fate of the Czech rather than the British cinema . |
| 10 | One of the lesser members of the Wildbad group , Konstantin Kavelin , was credited by a contemporary with " primacy in establishing the principle of the landed rather than the landless emancipation of the peasants " , but neither he nor his friend Nikolai Miliutin had secured the adoption of their views as official policy . |
| 11 | ‘ Professional ’ as against ‘ amateur ’ may also have connotations of discipline , of the instrumental rather than the expressive . |
| 12 | Alternatively a pair can be maintained and bred in an 18″ or 24″ tank of their own , or make excellent additions to a Discus aquarium as long as this is of the planted rather than the bare type . |
| 13 | Southampton must pay 25 per cent of the fine now and the other £15,000 will be suspended for a year to give boss Ian Branfoot time to sort out the worst record in top soccer . |
| 14 | The self to whose development the authors relate this process tends to be a highly individualist subjective self , of the psychological rather than the anthropological tradition , with given psychic needs . |
| 15 | Cley 's chambers suited the mentality of the entombed rather than the star-conscious . |
| 16 | Morny was himself a partisan of a Russian rather than a British alliance , but a combination of the Tsar 's refusal to move from his position on the Treaty of 1856 and the Emperor 's fear of offending Britain made the attempt useless from the outset . |
| 17 | Peter is now remembered principally for his scholarship , which was of a compilatory rather than an original nature . |
| 18 | Your own historical writing and thinking will be expected to distinguish between fact and interpretation and between statements of a descriptive rather than an analytical kind . |
| 19 | For example , the choice of a passive rather than an active is influenced both by whether the things referred to are animate or inanimate and by what the basic theme of the speaker 's current discourse currently is ( Harris , 1977 ; 1978 ) . |
| 20 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
| 21 | Most sociologists would therefore conclude that the social status of blacks in the USA is the result of a social rather than a biological mechanism . |
| 22 | That the result is regarded as " Creole " , " Patois " etc. by the speakers is the result of a social rather than a linguistic process , in which two " opposing " codes , " ordinary English " ( i.e. British English , usually LE ) and " Patois " are construed to exist in the repertoire of speakers . |
| 23 | Liberals advocate the promotion of a free rather than a just society , based on the argument that , while we know what freedom is , we have no generally accepted notion of justice . |
| 24 | The official attitude to British Jewry taken by the BUF saw Jews in terms of a national rather than a religious or racial issue . |
| 25 | True proportions are denied in favour of an intuitive rather than a rigorously intellectual style . |