Example sentences of "[subord] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Song of Roland does not have much local colour in it , except of a perfunctory ‘ high are the mountains and dark the valleys ’ kind , so there is no particular call to read the poem before visiting the scene , in hopes of recognizing the poet 's descriptions . |
| 2 | Walter Legge once said that Karajan was not interested in politics , except of the musical variety , of which he was to become a consummate master . |
| 3 | Someone once said that you were n't much interested in politics except of the musical variety , of which you are a consummate master ; but you have been friendly with a number of leading politicians , including two British Prime Ministers . |
| 4 | Clearly , although of a good colour and nose , I lack balance and finish and am short of follow-through . |
| 5 | Different issues , although of a similar order , surround the demand for laboratory subjects captured from the wild . |
| 6 | Similar considerations , although of a different kind , apply to railway employees . |
| 7 | Both cases were clearly bedevilled by the combination of conspiracy and related substantive charges , although of the two only Novac had reached the Court of Appeal when the Practice Direction was issued . |
| 8 | But characterisations of discovery such as that of Lord Keith of Kinkel in Home Office v. Harman [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 280 , 308B , as ‘ a very serious invasion of the privacy and confidentiality of a litigant 's affairs , ’ although of the clearest application to discovery given in private civil litigation , appear to us altogether less obviously apt in relation to an order such as that made by this court in the appellant 's appeal . |
| 9 | Obviously the balance lift will do twice the work , in the same time , and , beyond this , the power required to operate the lift , although of the same intensity , would be only usable during a small portion of the rise instead of during the whole . |
| 10 | The first system is used when the husband is armigerous and the wife , although of an armigerous family , is not herself an heraldic heiress . |
| 11 | The problem is more of income distribution than of a failing in the technical working of the credit market itself . |
| 12 | In Derrida 's writing the science of semiology is replaced by grammatology which , as he says , takes the form of a question rather than of a new science . |
| 13 | In Germany interest groups like to present their views as the product of exhaustive research rather than of a distinctive philosophy . |
| 14 | He was representative of the German bench of bishops as a whole , who were more prepared to be the servants of the emperor than of a distant pope . |
| 15 | It may also express other varieties of emphasis — for instance , contrast — but this is in no way required of it any more nor less than of a prenominal adjective . |
| 16 | That is why we think it better the change in the community should be of an evolutionary rather than of a revolutionary kind . |
| 17 | The volumes , bound in green leather and tooled in gold , were identical in size and fitted the bookshelves so precisely that the effect was more of an artist 's trompe-l'oeil than of a working library . |
| 18 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the Sussex yeoman had become less of a symbol of traditional English independence than of a recalcitrant inbred backwardness , perverse in his outlook . |
| 19 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 20 | Dame Sirith 159 ) than of a courtly suitor . |
| 21 | Lewis Verne-Smith sat shaking his head , less as a gesture of denial than of a generalized despair at the state of the world . |
| 22 | Yet when people think of lighting they mostly think of lights or lamps — the actual fittings — rather than of a flexible medium , just like heat , which can be manipulated by the flick of a switch or a turn of a dimmer . |
| 23 | With much of the labour flow into industry permanent , rather than of the temporary migrant pattern common in the prewar years , the population structure of many rural areas is distorted , with most agricultural work carried out by the elderly , women and children . |
| 24 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 25 | As was seen earlier , overtime plays a much greater role in pushing up the average gross weekly earnings of the male manual than of the male non-manual worker . |
| 26 | The British position had been to press for intergovernmental co-operation on foreign , security and judicial matters ( outside the European Community as such ) and to emphasise the deepening of the democracy of the national parliaments of the Member States rather than of the European Parliament itself . |
| 27 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 28 | His approach to teaching was irrevocably pragmatic , reminiscent rather of that tradition of apprenticeship , which had dominated art until the 19th century , rather than of the semi-academicised inculcation of self-expression , which had prevailed ever since . |
| 29 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 30 | I was hoping to miss that one , because you might be trying to persuade me that I should erm , partake rather more of healthier food , than of the unhealthy food that I do eat . |