Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 2 | At a regional level it has been demonstrated that , in 1971 , over 30 per cent of the population in North Wales and Sussex was aged over 60 , compared with the national mean of only 19 per cent ( Law and Warnes 1975 ) . |
| 3 | The ‘ imperial animal ’ of the title is exclusively male , whether he be the shaper of human evolution or the intellectual of today . |
| 4 | Inside , the wheel of around 14ft diameter is still in place , as is some of the wooden gearing . |
| 5 | This is part of a scheme organised by the London Borough of Southward Friendship League , whereby various groups of sportsmen and women enjoy the hospitality of the twinned towns and demonstrate their own particular sports and skills . |
| 6 | At the time , Bethnal Green was a relatively compact borough of about 50,000 people concentrated within a very small area ( about 2 square miles ) , with no major roads running through it . |
| 7 | They were also seeking to purge their religion of recently acquired alien elements and to restore it to what they deemed its original purity . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 9 | Copious quantities of Champagne wine were consumed by such a large influx of visitors , enabling the vineyards to flourish and the vignerons to prosper , and leading to the export of both the wine and its reputation throughout the growing markets of Europe . |
| 10 | The three types of systems which are distinguished are isolated systems which have boundaries which are closed to the import and export of both mass and energy ; open systems where there is exchange of both matter and energy between the system and its environment , such as clouds ; and closed systems in which there is no exchange of matter between the system and its environment though there is in general an exchange of energy . |
| 11 | And that 's the simultaneous import and export of essentially similar products . |
| 12 | There is therefore a balance between the risks of not being vaccinated against certain diseases known to be prime causes of mental handicap , and having vaccinations which can themselves be harmful . |
| 13 | Yet the Canadian decision to join the USA in a free-trade area means that weaker partners think the risks of not joining are greater and the benefits , however marginal , worthwhile . |
| 14 | Credit can be given to further sales , but the risks of not being paid are reduced if security is taken . |
| 15 | Infinitely small risks of infinitely nasty mishaps proliferate . |
| 16 | Platelet structure and its relationship to platelet function has been given tremendous impetus , through the application of electromicroscopy to the study of platelet anatomy and the development of techniques for isolation of physiologically active platelets and their preservation for ultrastructural study . |
| 17 | A roomette on The Canadian , when you eventually join it , is slightly under seven foot by three ( which includes a private lav ) with a bed that slides out from the wall ; it thus manages to combine the characteristics of both the womb and the mortuary . |
| 18 | The seymouriamorphs were a major phylum on the evolutionary ladder with a skeleton featuring characteristics of both reptiles and amphibians , and probably were descendants of a missing link of transitional animals . |
| 19 | The structure of their model is that of a network displaying the characteristics of both spreading activation and lateral inhibition . |
| 20 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 21 | Gould , though , having had from Darwin 's eyewitness account of the bird 's behaviour , subsequently agreed that the Galapagos hawk shared characteristics of both the Polyborus and the Buteos . |
| 22 | In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour . |
| 23 | At temperatures above 374° C and pressures above 218 atmospheres , water becomes what is known as a supercritical fluid , with some of the characteristics of both a liquid and gas , and is able to dissolve almost anything . |
| 24 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
| 25 | Modern botanical science knows a lot about dominant and recessive genes ( which characteristics are dominant over others ) but despite all the science , the one thing that you can be sure about is that there is no certainty about which characteristics of either male or female parent will show through in their progeny . |
| 26 | In this discussion it has been hard to draw the line between issues that are essentially ‘ characteristics of policy ’ that affect implementation , and points that are really observations about the characteristics of either the relationships between central policy makers and local implementers , or of the organization of the implementing agencies . |
| 27 | The special characteristics of today 's Jersey are its extreme dairy conformation , the wedge shape accentuated by a characteristic sunken area before the hip bones and a natural tendency to show the lie of the ribs . |
| 28 | Main characteristics of today 's maintenance problems Many of the activities in aircraft maintenance , particularly failure detection , testing , diagnosis and repair , are knowledge-intensive and experience-based tasks . |
| 29 | Against such mono-causal explanations , they insisted that major social changes originate from a diversity of influences , including the exercise of political leadership or military force ( Schumpeter ) , culture ( Weber ) , or the psychological characteristics of differently recruited elites ( Pareto ) . |
| 30 | Non-specific urethritis ( NSU ) , non-gonococcal urethritis ( NGU ) , post-gonococcal urethritis ( PGU ) , and non-specific genital infection ( NSGI ) all refer to genital conditions which have many of the characteristics of sexually transmitted diseases and yet defy accurate categorization in terms of their aetiology . |