Example sentences of "[adv] universal [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in spite of a much less universal use of music than formerly , the monastic musical tradition remains a vital one . |
| 2 | Although income was more equally distributed among older people in Britain than in the other six nations , this emphasises the more universal impact of age discrimination in this country as well as its greater penalty . |
| 3 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 4 | Some form of property taxes are an almost universal source of income for local government , but in many parts of the world they are accompanied by other forms of taxation . |
| 5 | Battle , Murder , and Death , Venuses and Psyches , the bloody and voluptuous , are the things in which they seem to delight : and these are portrayed in a cold , hard , and often tawdry style , with an almost universal deficiency of chiaroscuro ; the whole artificial , labored and theatrical . |
| 6 | By the 1980s , in the wake of the stagflation and slow growth in even the rich economies of the Western Europe , came an equally almost universal loss of faith in the capacity of any individual state to intervene decisively and effectively . |
| 7 | This provoked an almost universal howl of outrage in Britain . |
| 8 | Hence the creation in the Austrian provinces and Bohemia , beginning with the Allgemeine Schulordnung of 1774 ( though this was the work of an official , J. I. Felbiger , not of Joseph himself ) of the first truly universal system of education in European history . |