Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , popular culture was the subject , and arguably the condition of existence , of high modernist culture .
2 Arguably the process of centralization which has taken place could be presented as a necessary precursor to the decentralization of power which is desired .
3 I am dubious about their confidence that British industry is already experienced in a wide range of PWR work , and has technical and manufacturing competence at the levels ready to receive successfully the transfer of information specific to PWR components .
4 In order to work successfully the notion of Partnership through Compact must involve all the personnel in the participating organisations including trade unions .
5 The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma .
6 Thus in the light of much which has been surveyed here , it is impossible to view overmanning — the bane of British industry — as mainly if not wholly the consequence of union power .
7 A visiting fossilist from Aberdeenshire drew Johnson 's attention to a species of ash tree , enabling the great man to support his recurring arboreal obsession : ‘ The present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of Nature . ’
8 In this section we want to look firstly at why banks have an interest in expanding the volume of deposits and thereby the stock of money .
9 Sometimes this knowledge is supplemented by some familiarity with theoretical linguistics illustrated by examples from the language in question , or more rarely the knowledge of literature is wholly or partly replaced and supplemented by knowledge of the contemporary history , sociology and economics of a country where the language is spoken .
10 However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer .
11 Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was .
12 The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment .
13 And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing .
14 First of these was our Himalayan hill-walk , albeit seen fro the comfort of Undercroft chairs , in the cheerful company of Bill Mitchell .
15 It appears that these penalties have been based very much on the default surcharge , but thankfully the level of penalty does appear to be significantly lower , though the period of penalty is much longer .
16 Hoover , himself , certainly not a callous man , considered that it would be fatal for the Federal government to take over in the field of relief , which was properly the concern of state and local governments with help from private charity .
17 However , we were not keen for housing benefit to be used in place of housing support for care , which is properly the provision of income support .
18 The latter was properly the business of epistemology and to be excluded from the scientific practice of sociology .
19 It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts .
20 This , of course , illustrates powerfully the lack of choice facing rural dwellers , imposing the need to work within walking distance ( if there is any ) and enforcing car ownership , lift-sharing or migration .
21 Mercifully the issue of censorship in the UK is not at present the matter of life and death that it can be in other countries , yet various instances of censorship in recent years ( even in the library field ) have illustrated how inflammatory the question of censorship can be .
22 From then onward the pace of change accelerated .
23 From late morning onward the combination of sunlight , heat and the reflective properties of its salt surface throws up a host of mirages .
24 A third category — and here presumably the notion of philanthropy is to the fore — consisted of orphans or destitute girls in institutions — of unclassifiable social Origin but genteel upbringing .
25 Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself .
26 The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession .
27 The temporary grassland area has increased ( by 12% ) in this period , presumably the result of cultivation of previous permanent grassland on lower slopes and valley bottoms .
28 Presumably the metabolism of brain cells is disrupted and some cells die .
29 But mostly the ethos of Eagle was too remote from my working-class existence .
30 Importantly , these measures were not always or even mostly the product of consensus .
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