Example sentences of "[subord] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Walter Legge once said that Karajan was not interested in politics , except of the musical variety , of which he was to become a consummate master .
2 Someone once said that you were n't much interested in politics except of the musical variety , of which you are a consummate master ; but you have been friendly with a number of leading politicians , including two British Prime Ministers .
3 But characterisations of discovery such as that of Lord Keith of Kinkel in Home Office v. Harman [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 280 , 308B , as ‘ a very serious invasion of the privacy and confidentiality of a litigant 's affairs , ’ although of the clearest application to discovery given in private civil litigation , appear to us altogether less obviously apt in relation to an order such as that made by this court in the appellant 's appeal .
4 Obviously the balance lift will do twice the work , in the same time , and , beyond this , the power required to operate the lift , although of the same intensity , would be only usable during a small portion of the rise instead of during the whole .
5 With much of the labour flow into industry permanent , rather than of the temporary migrant pattern common in the prewar years , the population structure of many rural areas is distorted , with most agricultural work carried out by the elderly , women and children .
6 The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe .
7 The British position had been to press for intergovernmental co-operation on foreign , security and judicial matters ( outside the European Community as such ) and to emphasise the deepening of the democracy of the national parliaments of the Member States rather than of the European Parliament itself .
8 This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated .
9 His approach to teaching was irrevocably pragmatic , reminiscent rather of that tradition of apprenticeship , which had dominated art until the 19th century , rather than of the semi-academicised inculcation of self-expression , which had prevailed ever since .
10 While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers .
11 I was hoping to miss that one , because you might be trying to persuade me that I should erm , partake rather more of healthier food , than of the unhealthy food that I do eat .
12 Wilfulness is more obviously part of the mens rea than of the actus reus .
13 Such was the magnificent ineffability of the Resident , who functioned , if we are to judge by this account , in an atmosphere better described as one of brilliant improvization than of the sober pragmatism for which Indirect Rule was supposedly renowned .
14 In certain regiments , however , qualifications beyond the strictly medical were demanded of the surgeons , for in Highland regiments knowledge of the Gaelic language appears to have been more seriously demanded of medical officers than of the combatant officers .
15 This is more profoundly a matter of the deeper cultural instilling of conformist values than of the effective threat of post hoc sanctions by the criminal justice system .
16 Elsewhere , he criticizes Mannheim 's definition of charismatic education in the consideration of the awakening of religious feeling ; since it seems neither to include the whole of the education of so-called ‘ primitive races ’ any more than of the higher races in their religious stage .
17 Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained .
18 Therefore , as I have frequently said in letters to Opposition Members and to my hon. Friends , we regard the support of students as the proper duty of the education system , rather than of the social security system , although there are exceptions that we support under the social security system .
19 At first , the chicks ate more of the aposematic than of the cryptic crumbs .
20 Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica .
21 The switch of allegiance from populism to Marxism , for example , was less the product of intellectual fashion , the ‘ pseudo-scientific ’ attractions of the new creed , or the persuasiveness of Plekhanov 's advocacy , than of the direct experience during the 1880s of activists on the ground .
22 The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders .
23 While sanctification was essentially a work of God 's grace rather than of the human will , it was believed that the process could be assisted by the discipline imposed by the church .
24 They therefore adopted the view that faith was not a work because it was an act of God rather than of the human person .
25 No , cos of the dirty movies .
26 cos of the five percent bid off the spread .
27 And I think it was cos of the wobbly front tooth when you bent it back when you fell over my foot .
28 No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years .
29 They look really nice cos of the red curtain .
30 In those days quite a number of Diamond heights were attempted in large shower clouds and cumulo nimbus , whereas very few are flown today because of the unacceptable risks involved .
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