Example sentences of "many [prep] [art] characteristics [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his business style he bears many of the characteristics of an immigrant - including an overbearing , sometimes ruthless , desire to succeed . |
| 2 | It epitomises many of the characteristics of good soldiering : attention to detail , speed of response to orders , and a sense of pride , and it forges a link with the traditions of the past . |
| 3 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 4 | It has many of the characteristics of a great ecclesiastical building ; it has vast arches , void spaces , coloured lights , and above all , it has recurrence of ritual . |
| 5 | Non-specific urethritis ( NSU ) , non-gonococcal urethritis ( NGU ) , post-gonococcal urethritis ( PGU ) , and non-specific genital infection ( NSGI ) all refer to genital conditions which have many of the characteristics of sexually transmitted diseases and yet defy accurate categorization in terms of their aetiology . |
| 6 | In 1988 and 1989 , a series of measures with many of the characteristics of a ‘ stabilization ’ package forced more drastic cuts in government spending . |
| 7 | The Commission has many of the characteristics of an international administrative authority and is the organ through which the governments act in all matters to do with the concession . |
| 8 | The Task Force also concluded that such benefits share many of the characteristics of pensions and that the principles of SSAP 24 , Accounting for Pensions Costs , are applicable . |
| 9 | Gambling has many of the characteristics of drug taking — a euphoric high , and a craving in the addict . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the model of economic theory is often taken to embody in an ideal form many of the characteristics of the actual market economy . |
| 11 | Sir Leicester Dedlock retains many of the characteristics of a great eighteenth-century landowner . |
| 12 | McLuhan then goes on to argue that the electric media are restoring many of the characteristics of speech : immediacy , aural and tactile rather than visual qualities , ambiguity , multiple points of view , non-linear montage , and collective experience . |
| 13 | Guerrilla warfare shared many of the characteristics of resistance movements in the Second World War . |
| 14 | injunctions of general application have many of the characteristics of quasi-criminal offences tailor-made by individual judges to meet the facts of a particular case . |
| 15 | The wartime state had many of the characteristics of the ‘ welfare state ’ , which is popularly regarded as having been created after the war . |
| 16 | He points out that many of the characteristics of man which outsiders find distasteful reflect genuine local needs and aspirations . |
| 17 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |
| 18 | The evidence for Cade 's operations suggests that they shared many of the characteristics of the better known Italian merchant bankers of the late middle ages . |
| 19 | Many of the characteristics of the white colonialist sprang to life , from a crazy ambition to achieve what I wanted — success and applause . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , they retain many of the characteristics of their courtly forebears . |
| 21 | They therefore share many of the characteristics of the traditional market . |
| 22 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 23 | We are , in the practicalities , preserving many of the characteristics of the poll tax that have plagued and complicated our lives over the past two or three years . |
| 24 | These have many of the characteristics of bonds . |
| 25 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 26 | Thus while the change in a physical property can be used to locate T g , the transition bears many of the characteristics of a relaxation process and the precise value of T g can depend on the method used and the rate of the measurement . |
| 27 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 28 | It still had many of the characteristics of a lounge — cluttered bookshelves took up one wall of the room . |