Example sentences of "[subord] of the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They therefore adopted the view that faith was not a work because it was an act of God rather than of the human person . |
| 20 | And I think it was cos of the wobbly front tooth when you bent it back when you fell over my foot . |
| 21 | They look really nice cos of the red curtain . |
| 22 | Those very few who do receive enough child support to ‘ float ’ them off income support may nevertheless lose financially because of the consequent loss of passported benefits such as free school meals . |
| 23 | Organisms differ , partly because of the varying impact of the environment in their lifetime ( ‘ nurture ’ ) , and partly because of differences between the genes present in the fertilized eggs from which they developed ( ‘ nature ’ ) . |
| 24 | Because of the fluctuating nature of the condition strict criteria were required for defining the time when the fluid ceased to persist ; when type B tympanograms changed to type A , C1 , or C2 ; and when an observation was stopped . |
| 25 | And this , for example , I mean , whether we believe this or not , this Freud says , or thinks , explains why Wilson could come to Europe as a saviour , the saviour of mankind , but then failed to deliver the goods , because of the passive nature of his identification , you know , Jesus got crucified . |
| 26 | Talks on a fishing agreement with the European Community ( EC ) have been suspended because of the fiery dispute with Spain and because the EC says the quotas are too mean to be worth discussing . |
| 27 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |
| 28 | The possibility of incorporation represents a difficult route because of the close involvement and commitment of the local authority to that service , which is beneficial to it . |
| 29 | Because of the close relationship between anxiety and pain they will be considered together in the remainder of this chapter . |
| 30 | Something else I 've left hanging rather dangerously in the air is another and rather different hint , and because of the close correspondence of their careers , the milestones along their way , Stephen Daedalus is merely another name for James Joyce , so that the portrait itself would be a blow by blow account of its author 's story so far , with the relevant identities politely concealed under pseudonyms . |