Example sentences of "characteristic [prep] [adj] [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One characteristic of modern industry is that it is capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive and hence does not provide much employment . |
| 2 | A less exciting but equally innovative characteristic of princely officials was that they now existed in sufficient numbers to be used to check up on one another . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of financial reports is that they are produced by management , they report on management but they are addressed to owners and others external to the reporting organization . |
| 4 | Indeed one characteristic of British democracy is that the country is normally ruled by the party that lies second or third in the opinion polls ( if we take averages over all months since polls began , giving each month equal weight ) . |
| 5 | Another characteristic of social policies is that , while some involve broad responses to popular needs and wishes , many are specific measures to assist quite small disadvantaged groups in the population . |
| 6 | The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it . |
| 7 | They are of the underrated because the universal characteristic of high skill is that , to an observer , the performance does not appear to be very difficult . |