Example sentences of "[adv] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 2 | In contemporary societies these are necessarily of a cultural or social nature ; nationality and territory being crude and highly approximate signifiers of shared ancestry . |
| 3 | Indeed , if we were able to give a more definite connotation to the concepts of ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ , it would even be possible to maintain the libido is invariably and necessarily of a masculine nature , whether it occurs in men or in women . |
| 4 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 5 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 6 | For Anselm , the voice of a local church , especially of a local monastic community , sufficed in most matters . |
| 7 | Secondary entry is important enough for parents , especially of a particular social class , to encourage their children to repeat again and again , sometimes under assumed names , until they achieve their goals . |
| 8 | The results of other studies in children confirm the existence of H pylori negative antral gastritis in 30% of children , especially of a younger age group . |
| 9 | This sacrifice was made in order to bring out their relevance for government intervention , especially of a fiscal form , and the public choice perspective . |
| 10 | Domestication or controlled breeding of hitherto wild animals for their products has been commercially successful : witness such ventures as fur ranches for silver fox , mink , and chinchilla An unusual and profitable business in Thailand is exporting 2000 skins annually of a hybrid crocodile ( Crocoytus porosus X C. palustris ) . |
| 11 | Let us suppose that a person well acquainted with the woollen trade sets himself to inquire what would be the normal supply price of a certain number of millions of yards annually of a particular kind of cloth . |
| 12 | The Tarsus consists primitively of a single segment , a feature which is present in the Protura , Diplura and in some larvae . |
| 13 | Lydia , herself an inveterate explorer , was now aware that her three years in Java had been quite enough of an inner workout , and she returned to Europe to comb the Mediterranean for a solitary place to centre herself . |
| 14 | However , the essential feature of structured techniques is the breaking down of a complex problem into smaller manageable units in a systematic ( disciplined ) way . |
| 15 | All training in kung fu begins with the laying down of a solid foundation . |
| 16 | Regional nerves have been strained by a plan to cut off water from Syria and Iraq for a month , and by the Syrian shooting down of a Turkish civilian plane in October . |
| 17 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 18 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 19 | F/O Nicholls-Palmer 's shoot down of a Ju-88 in August 1943 is recreated atmospherically by M A Kinnear and is the subject of a very low print run ( 100 only ) entitled Brief Encounter from Artistic Flight . |
| 20 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 21 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 22 | The Government gave the go-ahead despite last week 's shooting down of an Italian relief plane . |
| 23 | Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia . |
| 24 | A symbol perhaps of a manufactured city … but the Milton Keynesians , if you can call them that , say life here could n't be better . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps of a broken heart . |
| 26 | There will be occasions , though , when you will need to produce the best-looking pictures that you possibly can — perhaps of an important family event . |
| 27 | However , a group of assessors under the President of Ukraine and President Kravchuk himself are obviously of a different opinion ; they are credited with the authorship of the agreement . |
| 28 | ‘ Them upstairs ’ were obviously of an inferior race , and their habits were disgusting , Rose said . |
| 29 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 30 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |