Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] a [adj] feature [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where domination strategies are a pervasive feature of the culture of teaching in a school , pupils can be remorseless in their expectations that teachers conform to the ‘ normal ’ pattern and can exercise powerful sanctions of disobedience and disruption against those who allow reason or consideration of personal concern to show through , against those who seem to show manifest signs of weakness or softness , that is . |
| 2 | Rituals are a central feature of police work . |
| 3 | Plants in pots and vases are a great feature of the garden in summer . |
| 4 | McLaren 's suggested explanation for this particular catastrophe arose from our recent knowledge ( from Mars , Venus , Mercury and the back of the moon ) that meteorites and meteoritic impacts are a general feature of the Solar System . |
| 5 | Overnight services for sleeping cars are a long-standing feature of BR 's Anglo-Scottish routes , but this market has also changed . |
| 6 | It must be recognised that knives are a common feature of everyday life and that , in the wrong hands , almost any bladed or sharply pointed article is potentially a lethal weapon . |
| 7 | In a system which gives spots , making a region long and thin results in stripes — striped tails are a common feature of many animals . |
| 8 | The property is impressively maintained and has well proportioned accommodation on 2 floors , with a superb Kitchen/Breakfast Room with light oak units being a particular feature of the property , 3 good sized Bedrooms are provided on the first floor , whilst , outside is car parking space and Carport with attractive walled and private Garden beyond . |
| 9 | Terry 's run ended just a month before the end of 1960–61 , Palace 's first promotion season for 40 years , and his splendid and regular performances were a key feature in that success . |
| 10 | Huey ( 1908 ) believed that some kind of internal auditory imagery of words was a legitimate feature of skilled silent reading , and devoted an entire chapter of his book to the functioning of inner speech . |
| 11 | It is thought that high-mass X-ray binaries accrete primarily from a stellar wind escaping from the companion star whereas LMXBs accrete by means of Roche-lobe overflow into a disc ; a viable hypothesis is that QPOs are a generic feature of disc accretion , regardless of the precise nature of the compact object . |
| 12 | The problem , then , is why one should accept Poulantzas ' claim that pertinent effects are a constant feature of capitalist social formations . |
| 13 | The Company 's barges were a much-loved feature on the Liffey as they plied the river with their cargo of goodness on the short run between Brewery and Port . |
| 14 | As in other parts of the Act , co-operation with natural parents is a central feature of this section particularly in relation to residential alternatives and to foster care . |
| 15 | This sporadic use of even the most generally ‘ well used ’ texts is a recurring feature of overall book use . |
| 16 | The perfect polygonal joinery of all the plates is a striking feature of the echinoid test . |
| 17 | The mosaic of calcite plates is a particular feature of the phylum , and serves as one of the characters linking together such dissimilar-looking animals as starfish and sea lilies . |
| 18 | These strip buildings are a common feature of urban sites throughout the empire and are usually identified as the shops and workshops of resident traders and craftsmen . |
| 19 | Such spines are a common feature of lava domes ; in fact they are an almost predictable result of the squeezing of viscous lava into a pile of loose , broken rocks . |
| 20 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
| 21 | The resulting leakage of plasma from veins is a recognised feature of multiple sclerosis and is know to cause shedding of the fatty covering of nerve fibres ( the myelin sheath ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The behaviour of transposons in other plants is a key feature of our research , but this result was completely unexpected , ’ said Dr Martin . |
| 23 | Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time . |
| 24 | The flight from the older inner areas to the suburbs is a long-established feature of population redistribution . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mr. Beloff in reply submits that the dichotomy between authorised persons and exempted persons is a major feature of the whole structure of the Act of 1986 . |
| 27 | These days , way of life arguments are a common feature of public debate about the value of small rural schools . |
| 28 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 29 | The use of alternative names is a characteristic feature of Near Eastern writing . |
| 30 | In this context the development of co-operatives is a notable feature of the reform . |