Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 2 | In fact , neither Clinical Ecology nor the Journal of Nutritional Medicine is even mentioned in the Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports . |
| 3 | For that reason the word ‘ interests ’ in the Code of Professional Conduct is perhaps an unfortunate guide in the context of censorship . |
| 4 | The flow of metal-contaminated water is now four million gallons a day , of which 3.3 million gallons are treated . |
| 5 | Another type of multi-way tree is often known as a trie ( from the word ‘ retrieval ’ , but pronounced as ‘ try ’ to distinguish it from ‘ tree ’ in speech ) and was first introduced by Fredkin ( Fredkin , 1960 ; Knuth , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | We may say , then , that the achievement of indexical meaning is commonly a matter of making a connection between the linguistic sign and the relevant aspect of schematic knowledge . |
| 7 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 8 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 9 | The vicious circle of repressed feeling is finally broken . |
| 10 | Again , the US , where concern over the concentration of economic power is most strong , provides a good example of this sort of regulatory measure . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the model of economic theory is often taken to embody in an ideal form many of the characteristics of the actual market economy . |
| 12 | Britain 's record of economic growth is very poor . |
| 13 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 14 | This means that among women a relatively large amount of /a/ backing is more likely to be associated with a high level of integration into the network than is the case among men — a relationship analysed by Spearman 's Rank Order Correlation ( L. Milroy , 1987 : 155 ) . |
| 15 | Documenting such violence in police-public relations through the medium of oral history is especially difficult . |
| 16 | This undertone of political symbolism is less overt in the more recent paintings , which effect a happy marriage between Western abstraction and Eastern ornamentation . |
| 17 | This undertone of political symbolism is less overt in the more recent paintings which effect a happy marriage between Western abstraction and Eastern ornamentation . |
| 18 | A degree of political sensitivity is therefore required . |
| 19 | It is possible that this form of political organization is more conducive to non-competitive peaceful behaviour but , as many instances from New Guinea and Amazonia show , it is certainly no guarantee of it . |
| 20 | Although this is by any standards a grotesquely over-simplified account of hundreds of pages , it brings out the attitude which Althusser contests — the idea that Marx 's theory of political economy is just an alternative to the classical one , in that crucial experiments can be devised to adjudicate between them . |
| 21 | Ruben and Rapin ( 1980 ) , in a thorough review of the literature , show that development of auditory perception is crucially dependent on early stimulation . |
| 22 | As in the case of housing , the contradictory nature of rural development is here serving to increase the deprivation of the already disadvantaged . |
| 23 | The continuing scarcity of certain types of rural housing is now having as much effect upon shaping the English village community as the influx of newcomers . |
| 24 | Although the distribution of rural population is no longer synonymous with agricultural employment , most people live in the same locality as their place of employment , and so this chapter considers population and employment as contiguous rather than necessarily related phenomena . |
| 25 | Papa Dee , a 24-year-old ragamuffin rap artist of Ghanaian-Swedish descent is currently enjoying a novelty status on the New York live rap circuit . |
| 26 | " It is very often the case that agreement in the rules of private law is more important than what rules these are , at least within broad limits . |
| 27 | Of course , the financing of such an increase in government spending by the sale of an equivalent quantity of government bonds will tend to raise interest rates and thus choke off some private expenditure , but unless the interest elasticity of private expenditure is very high , or the interest elasticity of the demand for money very low , the net effect of an increase in government spending will be significantly to raise the equilibrium level of aggregate demand at any price level . |
| 28 | If one intends to exclude both direct and consequential economic loss , such as in relation to loss of profit , then it is important not to fall into the trap of drafting the clause to exclude consequential loss only , although exclusion of consequential loss is obviously an important element . |
| 29 | The modern modification of representative democracy is therefore to see the public as being allowed to choose from time to time between two or more broad political programmes , and being able to reject a party that has failed to carry out its promises . |
| 30 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |