Example sentences of "[adj] nature [prep] [art] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capital costs are high on account of the specialised nature of the machines required for the production line . |
| 2 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 3 | The different nature of the materials imported to particular parts of England in the sixth and seventh centuries is mirrored by the different patterns of dispersal revealed by plotting fall-off curves ( Huggett forthcoming ) . |
| 4 | The asymmetry arises because of the different nature of the benefits provided and taxes levied . |
| 5 | Competition in the professions was thought not to be in the public interest because of the specialised and personal nature of the services provided , which often affect the health , safety and well-being of the public . |
| 6 | The crucial nature of the questions addressed at this seminar resulted in our receiving the backing of a number of organisations . |
| 7 | The applicants in the main proceedings considered that the extension of the nationality requirement to holders of a beneficial interest accentuated the restrictive nature of the requirements laid down . |
| 8 | Four ‘ change-facilitating factors ’ are picked out by Ramon ; heavy and unchanging reliance on segregated institutions ; the existence of a minority of psychiatrists prepared to act politically ( while not having the desire to act in a party political framework ) ; the autonomous nature of the regions leading to more enthusiastic reform beginning in socialist and communist areas ; and perhaps most importantly for the concerns of this book , |
| 9 | Companies chopped and changed their holdings , for reasons that might have little to do with the specific nature of the businesses involved . |
| 10 | Platform games are a popular genre , but the essentially uncomplicated nature of the puzzles included in most tends to shorten their life span . |
| 11 | Like all sciences , feng shui is an expedient of civilization , a technique for reconciling human nature to the limitations imposed on it by settlement . |
| 12 | Further work is needed at the conceptual level in this area to determine the exact nature of the constraints required . |
| 13 | The centrality of the ‘ family ’ in these conservative perceptions , and the double-edged nature of the disciplines advocated to deal with the problem , were illustrated in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal ( Europe ) of 17 January 1989 . |
| 14 | Thirty councillors from the London Borough of Poplar were sent to prison in 1921 for refusing to levy rate precepts for London County Council , the Metropolitan Police and the Metropolitan Asylums Board , in a protest against the unequal nature of the rates burden as between rich and poor areas of London . |
| 15 | Toby imagined Penny as a girl of infinitely greater experience and sophistication than himself , though , in looking back on her four years at Bedford College and her half year of unemployment thereafter , Penny could only be struck by the slim amount of worldly knowledge gained , the fleeting , unsatisfactory nature of the relationships formed . |
| 16 | Although it is undoubtedly true that Sartre et alia achieved a moral victory in 1947 by highlighting the purely imaginary and hence illusory nature of the accusations made against Nizan , and although Sartre 's own final fictional account of Nizan , narrated emotionally in " Drole d'amitie " , is a powerful antidote to the negative and hostile account in Aragon 's Les Communistes , nonetheless , from the moment of his death in 1940 until the moment of republication of Aden Arabic " in 1960 , Nizan remained an unwanted communist renegade . |
| 17 | Despite the disturbing nature of the weapons confiscated , the French youths wo n't face charges . |
| 18 | Your mind must be more involved with the screen image , the very nature of the games demand response . |
| 19 | No numerical illustrations are given because it is the very nature of the techniques described that they are successful on large problems — too large to illustrate explicitly here . |
| 20 | Thus , the very nature of the demands made upon the state by the capitalist system leads to a form of the state that can not necessarily ensure that capitalist interests are furthered . |
| 21 | Given the extreme nature of the problems experienced by this client group and the long history of failure by services to do more than provide custodial care this is no mean achievement . |
| 22 | Control groups are not relevant , and important variables can seldom be specified in advance owing to the complexity and dynamic nature of the processes involved . |
| 23 | The long-term nature of the programmes imposes evolutionary rather than revolutionary change . |
| 24 | One consequence of the extremely fluid nature of the lavas erupted in Hawaiian eruptions , especially those of the Hawaiian volcanoes themselves , is that they are sometimes so fluid that when ‘ fire fountains ’ are spraying lava upwards , some of the liquid sets solid into teardrop shapes , with bulbous ends and long-drawn-out tails . |
| 25 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 26 | The starting points for the revision of the existing Conventions of 1905 and 1954 were a dissatisfaction with the indirect consular channel , as being inappropriate in current conditions , and a concern that the non-obligatory nature of the channels provided for in the existing text enabled some countries to make use of the system of notification au parquet to which increasing exception was taken . |
| 27 | Whilst a more sophisticated classification system operates in the Netherlands , the precise nature of the services offered often remains unclear ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | What 's the precise nature of the jobs guarantee ? |
| 29 | In their final declaration ministers said that the radical nature of the cuts had been prompted by the " decisive steps towards democracy and freedom in the Soviet Union " and the " constructive Soviet response " to recent US arms control initiatives [ see pp. 38457 ; 38553 ] . |
| 30 | Because of the variable nature of the factors contributing to manoeuvre-induced instrument errors , it is not possible to give positive guidance as to the magnitude — or even sense — of the errors likely to be encountered during a given manoeuvre . |