Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [num] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Any difference is one of degree rather than kind .
2 Another such verb is leave ; hence example ( 3 ) ( b ) from Chapter 4 , repeated here : ( 40 ) this process leaves the items date-stamped is in fact structurally ambiguous in three ways rather than two , since the final adjective may be a postnominal attributive , a predicate qualifier , or an adverbal ; it remains true , however , that the ambiguity is one of structure rather than a matter of elusive " shades of lexical meaning " .
3 The research by Portes shows that the difference between the squatters and the urban population is one of degree rather than kind , the implication being that they are disadvantaged within the system , rather than being outside it .
4 Our policy is one of indemnity i.e. it provides for the Claimant to be in the same position after the loss as immediately before it .
5 Though the poet , in broad terms , castigates greed and disloyalty , his message is one of optimism rather than foreboding , and his concern is not with general crisis but a particular , personal cause for rejoicing .
6 The distinction between task training and skill training is one of degree rather than kind .
7 In this chapter , I shall argue that Simmel 's assertion that his analysis is one of modernity rather than solely of capitalism should be taken seriously , and that the contradictions in modernity which he analysed are not resolvable through Marxist conceptions of a future society , but are dilemmas which have to be investigated as integral aspects of modern life .
8 Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium .
9 The interests of the prosecution to secure a conviction and the interests of the defence to ensure that the verdict is one of manslaughter rather than murder may on occasion coalesce , so that it often appears — in reading the newspapers that consensus rather than conflict between prosecution and defence is the general order of the day .
10 Again , the problem is one of scale more than anything , and on political decisions and their timing .
11 There are far too many possible chess moves : the search-space is billions of times too large to allow blind stumbling to succeed .
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