Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the combined effect of all these forces , together with the political isolation of the most vulnerable in society , which is leading to a disenfranchisement of one part of the population from full citizenship . |
| 2 | The rival Mendelian genetic discoveries were rather more problematic and complicated , although if certain assumptions were made then racial crossing inevitably led to the weakening of the inherited characteristics of the allegedly higher type . |
| 3 | We then go on to discuss the size and structure of the money market and the individual characteristics of the most important constituent markets . |
| 4 | In these circumstances they are more able to realise their true ideological potential , which seems to mean taking on the characteristics of the most rapacious forms of capitalist entrepreneurship . |
| 5 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 6 | This was all very much in line with the current thinking of the more policy-minded Indirect Rulers : Margery Perham , and even Lugard , supported the formation of regional councils along these lines . |
| 7 | Thinking of the almost natural way in which particularly young middle-class girls , but by no means only they , repressed all behaviour and thoughts concerning sex , one could say , that in many respects the preceding middle-class generations had to restrain their sexual — and possibly other — urges and inclinations , because these controls functioned quite blindly , beyond the conscious control of the individuals concerned … . |
| 8 | Common sense said otherwise , but the unheeding kindness of the very poor took little account of that , Sally-Anne had found . |
| 9 | An episode of the highly successful TV comedy The Likely Lads was based entirely on the two working-class Geordie protagonists not being told the result of a recorded game . |
| 10 | One tactic of the Report is to transcend this paradox by recourse to particular appropriations of the deceptively simple terms " experience " and " life " . |
| 11 | It is vital to emphasize Tel Quel 's perception of the implicitly political nature of avant-garde writing : Ricardou shared the group 's belief in the ‘ critical function ’ of oppositional works . |
| 12 | The sense conveyed here of transition , of one age giving way to another , of an approaching end , a decadence , an Untergang — veering violently in its emotional response between nonchalance and terrible fear — is in some ways more disturbing than the resolutely futuristic or science fiction settings of the very talented Stefano Benni , who has been compared , not without reason , to Vonnegut ( Tani 1986 : 134–8 ) , or the sub-human dystopia created by the Sienese poet Attilio Lolini in his only novel to date , Morte sospesa ( Suspended death 1987 ) , in which a man stumbles through the aftermath of what Loloni describes as ‘ an ordinary apocalypse ’ , trying to confess to a horrible and long-forgotten crime of which no one will believe him guilty . |
| 13 | The directors must act in accordance with what they believe to be an appropriate balancing of the sometimes conflicting interests , but the court can not intervene merely because it disagrees with the way in which the directors have weighted those interests . |
| 14 | Good as the concert was , it was rather too middle of the road for a tour titled ‘ The The vs The World ’ and , sadly for fans of the more paranoid earlier work , Johnson 's attempts to darken the proceedings ended up looking silly . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the rules of the Conventions were treated as formulations of the generally accepted principles of the law of war , and binding as such ( Roberts and Guelff , 1982 , p. 156 ) . |
| 16 | In fact , the losses of the comparatively few German battalions engaged in this small corner of the Verdun front that day alone exceeded 2,400 , little less than the total British casualties on D-Day in 1944 . |
| 17 | This defeat of the most successful application of Communist party popular front tactics appeared to demonstrate that opposition forces within Latin America ( backed up by the United States ) were too powerful for such a strategy to be ultimately successful . |
| 18 | So , in this study , the more able children added on steps in addition at 3 to 5 times the speed of the less able children . |
| 19 | The volatile situation in South Africa 's tribal homelands [ see pp. 37305-06 ] persisted with the announcement on April 5 of the overthrow of the President of the nominally independent Venda homeland , Frank Ravhele by the deputy chief of the homeland 's Defence Force , Col. Gabriel Ramushwana . |
| 20 | He was also the first Protestant to become President of the overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 21 | Not only was there nearly a Black President of the most powerful nation on earth but one committed to an entirely new world order . |
| 22 | Quite apart from his business acumen ( by the end of his commercial life he was the head of the largest clothing manufacturers — which his father had acquired earlier , originally named Freedmans — in the British dominions , as well as chairman or president of the most important trade bodies related to that industry ) he held very senior positions in such organisations as the Baron de Hirsch Institute , the Montreal Reform Club , the Montefiore Club , the Montreal Insurance Co , the Jewish Public Library , the Hebrew Educational Institute , the Canadian Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Sufferers in Europe , the Executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress , the Canadian Colonisation Committee , the Zion Athletic Club , the Zionist Organisation of Canada , and many , many more . |
| 23 | A portrait of one Sir William Bennett , president of the once all-powerful Hambledon Cricket Club in 1786 leads round the room to an artist 's impressions of the new Durham county ground which will open in the 1990s . |
| 24 | Their long soft bodies are covered on the upper side with waving tentacles of the most delicate colours , banded , striped and patterned in many shades . |
| 25 | Scrupulous and fair-minded , he was the first academic researcher to provide a rounded appreciation of the critically important contribution of itinerant preachers and non-conformist bodies to the evangelisation and enliteration of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 26 | Since the majority of heads of schools and teachers inherit the school and the class or specialist rooms in which they work with their pupils , they are seldom in the happy position of being able to contribute to the initial planning of buildings , and consequently their interest may well be centred on adaptations or changes that they can realistically effect , although an appreciation of the more fundamental issues of design and planning may concern them too . |
| 27 | As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’ |
| 28 | The composition of the three figures is reminiscent of Greek vases of the later 5th century BC . |
| 29 | The second was Owen 's declaration that there was another way , easy and immediate ; a message which , in the collapse of the generally uncritical expectations attending the successful struggle to secure the passage of the Bill must have been all the more persuasive . |
| 30 | THREE YEARS ago , racing 's insiders were ready to announce , in some cases with the glee of the envious , the imminent collapse of the once omnipotent Robert Sangster racing empire . |