Example sentences of "a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final set of arguments emphasises the limited leadership qualities and organisational deficiencies that have been a historic feature of the extreme right in Great Britain . |
| 2 | A pleasant feature of the boardroom is the open terrace , overlooking the concourse , with its terracotta tiled floor . |
| 3 | Through the large plate glass windows ( a pleasant feature of all Wildfowl Trust Centres ) we looked out on to a deep lagoon , dug especially to attract wild birds . |
| 4 | Few of those disgorged from the solitary coach on the day that we were there noticed the gorge , yet it is spectacular in a way that the dais is not ; a volcanic fissure and a geological feature of startling proportions and beauty . |
| 5 | South from Elphin , along the road to Ullapool , are the Knocknan cliffs , another famous Assynt limestone outcrop , and where the Moine Thrust , a geological feature , can be clearly seen . |
| 6 | I do find the habit of ministers of being bloody when things go wrong a trying feature of this job . |
| 7 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 8 | In group 3 the individual observations are too short to see much , but we have constructed an ensemble average power spectrum ( Fig.1 a ) which shows no definite evidence for red noise , but strong evidence for a broad feature . |
| 9 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 10 | Hypothermia is not a usual feature of paracetamol poisoning and in this case was probably due to a combination of other factors . |
| 11 | Firmness will again be a strong feature in their social development . |
| 12 | Great weakness and the desire to lie down is a strong feature as are haemorrhagic complaints ; problems involving some sort of bleeding . |
| 13 | As with most pre-retirement education , individual financial counselling is a strong feature of the retirement holiday weeks . |
| 14 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 15 | A more general factor influencing the future prospects of the eurobond market is convergence between domestic and eurobond markets , which has been a strong feature of recent years . |
| 16 | Now you think that because I am I am forgiven and I preach forgiveness that I would be pretty good as up people , but that 's part of my human failure and I must admit that I 've given plenty of opportunity to practice at home and at work er the opportunity to forgive , but it does n't come easily and certainly it is n't a strong feature of the non-Christian world in which I work and which you will be working soon . |
| 17 | Forgiveness is not a strong feature of life . |
| 18 | The practice of American art historians reviewing or curating exhibitions , not only historical shows , is a normal feature of art life . |
| 19 | Curbs on free speech — the banning of books , revocation of newspaper licences and persecution of writers who criticise the government — is a normal feature of Indonesian political life . |
| 20 | Cell death is a normal feature of limb development and helps sculpt the form of the limb . |
| 21 | The theory of disengagement has led us to believe that it is a normal feature of growing old to withdraw from social life , that isolation and loneliness is a chosen path and not the product of enforced retirement , low income , low status and inadequate social provision . |
| 22 | Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles . |
| 23 | This project seeks to examine the extent to which multiple job holding in farm families is a normal feature of the agricultural sector in Scotland . |
| 24 | Pressure to publish is accepted as a normal feature of research work , but publication of Ph D results before or very soon after completion of the thesis has increased considerably in the period after 1977 . |
| 25 | Pressure to publish is accepted as a normal feature of research work , but publication of Ph D results before or very soon after completion of the thesis has increased considerably in the period after 1977 . |
| 26 | Short-distance mobility was a normal feature of provincial life . |
| 27 | Research to complement the existing work relating to pupil-teacher interaction ( Sinclair & Coulthard , 1975 ; Sinclair and Brazil , 1982 and Willes , 1983 ) , and also in the relatively less well explored areas of pupil-pupil interaction , a specific feature of infant classroom activity . |
| 28 | Those which vary in the use of a specific feature must be brought together to show the range of choice possible . |
| 29 | Headings may be subdivided by the name of a country or other political entity , a region or a geographic feature . |
| 30 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |