Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] of [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The simplest method is that of using conflicting or contradicting notes , so that tonal groups are disrupted or the influence of even a single tone nullified .
2 Unlike the desktop publishing market where the capabilities of both the product and the platform are clearly stated , the world of TechDoc is much less defined .
3 These statements betray either an ignorance or a distortion of both the tenor and depth of the publications that have emanated from the anti-nuclear movement in recent years .
4 But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite .
5 ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children .
6 And so it has gone on , although by the end of the 1980s it was evident that the patience of even a government as dedicated to the eventual triumph of nuclear power as Mrs Thatcher 's was showing signs of severe strain .
7 All this variability both within and between people suggests that the story of how the Stress Syndrome comes about can not be as simple as the Hay Fever Theory would have us believe .
8 A glance at any of the solid-liquid phase diagrams above shows that the presence of even a small amount of a second component can lower the freezing point or melting point .
9 Because of the population turnaround in many rural areas , the definition of a rural community in a widespread and confused literature has become an elusive concept ( Lewis , 1979 ) and although most parts of the UK have reached Time C in Figure 5.4a , some areas are characterized by a mixture of repopulation and depopulation in Zone III , and depopulation and repopulation in Zone II , so that the hallmarks of both the population and depopulation quadrants of Figure 5.4b can be found together in a very small area .
10 Humberto Celli , president of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , announced on May 22 that the leaderships of both the AD and the main opposition Social Christian Party ( COPEI ) had agreed the previous day on a joint " platform of understanding " .
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12 He is not required to find out who was at fault , though it is possible that the explanation of why an accident occurred may point to errors or shortcomings on the part of particular individuals .
13 Turning to the full three equations , the instability condition becomes This condition , derived in 1964 by Korobkin and others { 16,25 } is termed the " bad cavity " requirement , since it demands that cavity loss damp the field more strongly than the damping of either the polarisation or the population .
14 Probably more important than the detail of how a left government could appropriate personal saving , is the question of deployment of the funds .
15 A fly ball , I take it , is the baseball equivalent of a skier in cricket , so the problem of how a fielder knows where to go , where to place his hands to catch , it is the same .
16 The amount of fabric fullness required is variable and although a minimum of twice the length of the curtain fixture is satisfactory , two and a quarter to two and a half times fullness is preferable to achieve a well-balanced , attractive pleating arrangement .
17 So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) .
18 Hotspur 's refusal of verse is less a deliberate snub , as with Jaques and Achilles , than a sign of how the illegality of rebellion can destroy family and loving relationships , as the sequel demonstrates all too clearly .
19 For instance , a work of scholarship devoted to an esoteric subject will sell for a significantly higher price than a novel of approximately the same length and format by a popular writer .
20 Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen .
21 After all there is little point in an evaluation revealing educational provision to be unsatisfactory ( by anybody 's standards ) if the question of how the situation may be remedied has not been considered .
22 Raphael planned his frescoes in the Stanze to a programme provided by a humanist at the papal court , and the inclusion of almost every detail in Enguerrand Quarton 's marvellously constructed Coronation of the Virgin is laid down in the documents commissioning it .
23 The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that £2.75bn per year will be needed to achieve this aim , and the question of where the money will come from has not yet been agreed
24 The Azaña coalition reached its apogee in late 1932 with the defeat of Sanjurjo 's rising and the passage of both the Agrarian Reform Act and the Catalan Statute .
25 There was a large picture of the Pope in tarmac-kissing mode and the story of how the paper had entered his birthdate on the British Telecom horoscope service .
26 One of the features of the conflict which has made its resolution so difficult has been the inability of any of the protagonists — internal or external , powerful or weak — to mould events or other players to its will , and the ability of even the weakest players to throw a spanner into the works of both allies and adversaries .
27 Consideration of the diversity of difficulties that face attempted suicide patients , and the range of both the degree of suicidal intent and risk of repetition associated with their behaviour , should have demonstrated why it is most important that the facilities available for management of these patients must be flexible and allow a variety of options .
28 For example , in October 1974 the Labour Government secured the support of 39.2 per cent of those who voted and just over a quarter of the electorate ; in 1979 the Conservatives gained 43.9 per cent of the vote and the support of around a third of the electorate ; and in 1983 , the Conservative landslide of seats ( their parliamentary majority trebled ) was based on just 42.4 per cent of the vote — less than they got when they lost in 1964 , less than they got in 1979 , the fifth-lowest Conservative vote since the war , and the lowest vote-count by a government with a secure majority since 1922 .
29 The wealth of Bishops , the problems of the Biblical texts and of other religions , and the morality of both the Old and the New Testaments ( arbitrary , and socially unprogressive ) were more important factors in the painful losses of faith which Victorians underwent .
30 Another powerful factor behind the early success of the Big Four — and the mushrooming of nearly a thousand individual headhunting firms in the USA alone by the mid-1970s — was the scarcity of managerial talent due , quite simply , to the low birth rate in America during the Depression .
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