Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 2 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 3 | Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming . |
| 4 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |
| 5 | The problem is particularly acute with pictures taken with crossed polars , where often the identification of the minerals depends on the subtle rendition of characteristic interference colours . |
| 6 | Merger accounting , where substantially the whole of the consideration takes the form of equity shares , would be unusual in a building society context . |
| 7 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 8 | Art prices have now spiralled to the point , it was suggested , where even a collector of Charles Saatchi 's great wealth can no longer afford to buy without selling . |
| 9 | Likewise ‘ Give AIDS The Freeze ’ and ‘ Over Our Dead Bodies ’ on the handling of the AIDS epidemic by the medical fraternity and the media could as easily have been made here , where even the issue of access to condoms renders public representatives apoplectic . |
| 10 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 11 | Widgery 's radical politics made limited headway within his medical school , where even the sprinkling of Labour Party careerists within David Robins 's University College might have appeared perilously left-wing . |
| 12 | The stance adopted by the Act does not concede the full force of the argument that ‘ there may be a need for a clear legislative recognition that expression of unashamedly racist sentiments , as such , is an aspect of freedom of speech too costly in terms of long-term social disharmony to be tolerated in a pluralistic society where ultimately the possibility of democracy and civil liberty may depend on wholehearted public commitment to the fostering of social solidarity . ’ |
| 13 | For other plants where either the proportion of leaves to total biomass is not constant ( e.g. maize ) or the leaves are a smaller proportion of the biomass ( e.g. shrubs ) such a relationship may not exist . |
| 14 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 15 | Although predominantly a disease of older men and rare in people under 30 , he said heart disease was by no means unknown in people of Mr Souness 's age . |
| 16 | But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic — in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention . |
| 17 | The educated Indian businessman will consult an astrologer as readily as the illiterate villager ; and no occasion , except perhaps the birth of a child , necessitates the consulting of astrologers quite so urgently as a marriage . |
| 18 | Erm I have to say that that these are largely my personal views of the member of the regional office , rather than obviously the Secretary of State at this stage in the proceedings . |
| 19 | Where verbs of perception and know , as we saw above , evoke a characteristic expressive effect in this context , it is more difficult to see any nuance characterizing make here , other than perhaps a suggestion of result . |
| 20 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 21 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |
| 22 | ISF officials are selecting researchers on the basis of the quality and quantity of their published output ( see Nature 362 , 95 ; 1993 ) , although only a portion of the 35,000 who are eligible are applying for money to keep their laboratories going . |
| 23 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 24 | So , although only a minority of people deciding about credit reckon that its cost is of primary importance , insofar as they do consider the cost of credit they are very much more likely to be swayed by the amount of each instalment and the length of the repayment period than by other cost factors . |
| 25 | Although only a minority of parties were favourable to the Left , it was that minority which was most active at Party conferences and in political propaganda in the country . |
| 26 | Relations with Austen Chamberlain were never quite the same and although only a handful of MPs refused to sign the memorial they included personal friends of Law like Amery and Aitken . |
| 27 | Although only a handful of species in this large genus ( the biggest in the family with perhaps 110 species ) were examined , and only a single sample from each , while other nutrients such as minerals and vitamins were not assessed , the results are rather indicative of a pair of chemomorphological dispersal ‘ syndromes ’ within the genus . |
| 28 | Equations ( 7.14 ) and ( 7.15 ) show that , in such situations , the power factor is given by Consequently , if balance is achieved through adjustment of C 2 and R 4 rather than C 2 and R 2 , the dials of C 2 and R 4 can be made direct reading in power factor and capacitance although only the scale of the former will be linear . |
| 29 | The monarch is , furthermore , more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |