Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence part of the challenge is to find ways to getting through to the uninitiated so that a much larger proportion of adults have some insight into what mathematics is about . |
| 2 | The first is that , if the Rokkaku is a real handful and pitches over from the vertical even when a steady pull is made on the flying line , then extend the upper section of the single line bridle connector by slipping the Lark 's Head knot down You will then have lowered the towing point relative to the sail . |
| 3 | He returned to the offensive only when a Polish general in Hungarian service , Józef Bem , took most of Transylvania out of the hands of the local Austrian commanders . |
| 4 | Is this nothing more than the perennial appearance of uneven development , one of the principal diagnostic phenomena of capitalism , only this time at the intra-urban rather than a regional or national scale ? |
| 5 | Some sources have a subtle rather than a very strong and obvious bias . |
| 6 | They estimate its thickness at between 100 and 400 m , and suggest that all the observations are consistent with its having a low rather than a high velocity . |
| 7 | Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour . |
| 8 | However , the much higher phylogenetic conservation of this region within the Oct-1 proteins ( 88% sequence identity between Xenopus ( 42 ) chicken ( 43 ) and human ( 19 ) Oct-1 ) suggests this region plays a specific rather than a general function . |
| 9 | The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light-hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval . |
| 10 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 11 | It is essentially a technical rather than a moral problem . |
| 12 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 13 | Importantly , quality costing is a collaborative rather than a competitive process in which the participants in the transaction share a common analytical framework , exchange information and recognize their mutual inter-dependence with the overall company strategy . |
| 14 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , in a speech to the House of Commons on Feb. 22 , said that reforms in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were likely to transform NATO into a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 16 | Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] . |
| 17 | It was a devotional rather than a theological work . |
| 18 | But in either case there was a tendency for such borrowings , whether they were syllabuses , textbooks or examinations to become fossilised and consequently to represent a historical rather than a current picture of British educational practice . |
| 19 | The clubs were interested in what was termed ‘ wholesome recreation ’ and in keeping boys and girls ‘ off the streets ’ , and they expressed their concern through a social rather than a religious ethos , placing far less emphasis on Church and Bible , preferring instead to emphasize the ‘ making of men ’ ( albeit Christian men ) . |
| 20 | These are often infrastructural assets which have no determinable useful life , are not readily disposable , have no readily determinable market value , and which provide a social rather than a commercial service . |
| 21 | Grierson ( 1961 ) has suggested that seventh century coins have a social rather than a commercial significance . |
| 22 | However , most sociologists would argue that systems of racial stratification have a social rather than a biological basis . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 27 | From a scientific rather than a psychiatric standpoint , the most interesting aspect of these bizarre tastes is the opportunity they afford for witnessing the extreme chemical insults which the body can accept and overcome . |
| 28 | They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem . |
| 29 | Detailed consideration of all aspects of multicultural mathematics can help ensure ideas are introduced from a theoretical rather than a random basis . |
| 30 | 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 . |