Example sentences of "[adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If more education raises the productivity not merely of an individual worker but of all other workers with whom this worker co-operates , there is a production externality that the individual does not take into account in choosing how much education to purchase . |
| 32 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 33 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 34 | They start with the filling in of a pre-printed summons form which is obtained from the Sheriff Clerk . |
| 35 | The ploughing in of a quick-growing crop as ‘ green manure ’ ( mustard , rye , tares are suitable ) is sometimes used to increase fertility and improve soil structure . |
| 36 | One development that will be of interest to all those offering SCOTVEC qualifications is the phasing in of a standardised unit specification for National Certificate Modules , Higher National Units , and Workplace Assessed Units . |
| 37 | The phasing in of a standardised unit specification will have implications both for centres delivering SCOTVEC units , and for those involved in writing their own units . |
| 38 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 39 | The clue to that , I suspect , lies in Heseltine 's increasing adoption not only of a Churchillian warning stance but of an almost Churchillian speaking style as well . |
| 40 | This is what they teach fighters in Britain and that 's why most British fighters are only of a certain calibre . |
| 41 | If the horse wo n't walk into the trailer , it 's best to let him eat some of his food standing on the ramp ( only of a two-horse trailer and obviously not that of a truck ) . |
| 42 | It is about gaining an understanding , not only of a specific project , but about the way your company works . |
| 43 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 44 | In short , if there can be any meaningful talk of " reduction " here at all , it is perhaps only of a possible reduction of properties to ( non-mental and logically independent ) relations , not vice versa . |
| 45 | If it is alleged that the tribunal has reached a wrong decision then there can be a question of law but only of a limited character . |
| 46 | This latter idea could lay claim to a basis in ideas of collegiality — but only of a limited nature . |
| 47 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 48 | In these circumstances , it is the preservation not only of a great house that is assured , but also of the surrounding area of countryside . |
| 49 | The ‘ shelter ’ was a ridiculously inadequate affair , consisting only of a tubular metal frame with a narrow roof , thus allowing one to be squashed by the crowd packed into its small area , and soaked by the rain that swept in through its open sides . |
| 50 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 51 | These involve awareness not only of a narrative point of time , but of circumstances which , in relation to that point , are past , future , or hypothetical . |
| 52 | However commonsense has prevailed and in Re Transatlantic Life Assurance Slade J. felt able to hold that ‘ the wording … is wide enough in its terms to empower the court to order the deletion of some only of a registered shareholder 's shares . ’ |
| 53 | The petty bourgeoisie of shopkeepers and self-employed tradesmen needed to keep accounts even if only of a primitive kind , but the growing fraction of permanent journeymen among the artisans grew into a more literate as well as more skilled elite section of the labouring classes . |
| 54 | Women have difficulty obtaining paid employment , not only of a high level of skill and wages , but of any sort at all . |
| 55 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 56 | But attempts to encourage family planning encounter obstacles not only of an economic nature but also of a religious , cultural , and possibly also political nature . |
| 57 | Thus ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) can be construed as " passive experience " , while ( 10 ) admits only of an obligational-type interpretation : ( 8 ) I had a horse run away with me . |
| 58 | The words also speak of the joy and fun of friendship , of looking into a pool of knowledge , of drinking and lastly of a tender farewell . |
| 59 | He thought of his own parents , blissfully happy together until seven years ago when his father had died suddenly of an unsuspected heart condition , just before their silver wedding anniversary . |
| 60 | The second part of the questionnaire consisted entirely of a Likert-type scale designed to investigate attitudes towards school self-evaluation as a general topic . |