Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , I do not believe that it would necessarily be the most cost-effective use of resources in terms of environmental output to spend such a substantial sum on that project . |
| 2 | Though this work was done to explain the strength of very tiny crystals it is worthy of the attention of engineers who are perhaps somewhat frightened of cracks but take a rather light-hearted view of steps in machinery and structures . |
| 3 | His mother writes that ‘ it was just a comfortable flat with no frills ’ , but Hanns Ebensten says that ‘ it was one of the most prestigious block of flats in Johannesburg at that time ’ . |
| 4 | The procedure was explained by one of the most celebrated sculptors of icons in India , Acharya Sri Hanumanthacharya , whose idol-adorned gardens and studio are situated near Bangalore at the township of Devanahalli . |
| 5 | The deletion of the negative by Kirkup matched well the new more assertively public attitude of homosexuals in the 1960s and 1970s ; his means , the depiction of a homosexual relationship between a Roman centurion and the crucified body of Christ , depicted in the most physical sensual terms , was nothing if not polemical . |
| 6 | They are driven by an altogether broader set of changes in the conditions under which information is circulated and exchanged as a commodity . |
| 7 | The Reptile House contains one of the most interesting collections of snakes in the country , including both venomous and constrictive types . |
| 8 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 9 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 10 | The work has now made possible some extremely interesting analyses of changes in time use over the last twenty-five years . |
| 11 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 12 | In their view party leaders and presidents can effectively shape a much broader span of decisions in an open way which advances the representative quality of government . |
| 13 | Just as a battle begins in a state of equilibrium between tile two sides , which gradually alters one way or the other , until it is clear that the balance has tilted so far that the issue can no longer be in doubt — so this gathering of rabbits in the dark , beginning with hesitant approaches , silences , pauses , movements , crouchings side-by-side and all manner of tentative appraisals , slowly moved , like a hemisphere of the world into summer , to a warmer , brighter region of mutual liking and approval , until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear . |
| 14 | The Government were the first to undertake the far too long postponed replanning of services in London . |
| 15 | D. Michie , professor of machine intelligence at Edinburgh University , has discovered a somewhat similar state of affairs in a hybrid mouse , and R. A. Fisher suggested the term affinity to describe the phenomenon . |
| 16 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 17 | This is because social arrangements are to some extent arbitrary ways of organising human life — there is an apparently endless range of variations in social rules , ideas and conventions . |
| 18 | This work intensified in the course of the war , as a result of which the guild formed a close working relationship with the Women 's Labour League , laying the foundation for greatly increased involvement of women in local Labour parties ( Cole 1948 b p 141 ) . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers ' share of the much smaller total of numbers in full-time work fell by over 3 percentage points : from 26.7 to 23.3 per cent . |
| 20 | On the other , the national ‘ demographic time bomb ’ of much smaller numbers of school-leavers in the 1990s is likely to have its most severe impact on those places which experience rapid-migration of younger families during the 1950s and 1960s , namely the older New Towns and the more traditional commuting zones and most notably those in the Home Counties/ Outer Metropolitan Area of South East England . |
| 21 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 22 | There are perhaps more collectors of antiques in this country than anywhere else in the world . |
| 23 | However , there were many more non-manual workers close to or above their average than was ( and still is ) the case for manual workers : low pay among non-manual workers tend to figure in low-level clerical , sales and nursing groups but to be spread across a much wider range of jobs in the manual sector of the labour market . |
| 24 | This is part of a much wider pattern of contradictions in white attitudes . |
| 25 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 26 | This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible . |
| 27 | B. C. Limb called at the Foreign Office , having obtained a visa while in the United States , and gave an extremely misleading account of developments in Korea . |
| 28 | Biotechnology has an extremely wide range of applications in agriculture , among which are crop improvement , biological control of pests and the enhancement of nitrogen fixation , all of which influence environmental quality . |
| 29 | With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world . |
| 30 | As well as being one of the finest and most comprehensive sets of autochromes in existence , these charming images also offers a dimension which few other travel photographs of the period can offer . |