Example sentences of "[adv] of [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next door , an old woman in her seventies read aloud to her ninety-two-year-old mother , as she had read aloud of an evening for decades ; their house had not been renovated , it belonged to another age . |
| 2 | Differentiation , or specialization , involves not only the breaking down of the organization into functions , but also the formation of groups to support the tasks assigned to those functions . |
| 3 | The case for the prosecution is lost regardless of the issue of mens rea . |
| 4 | Both engagements illustrate Franco 's obsession with retaking lost territory , even where this was strategically unnecessary , regardless of the cost in terms of matériel , time and human suffering . |
| 5 | The change to cash planning arose , in part , because estimates in constant prices implied that cash had to be provided , regardless of the rise in prices , in order to maintain the agreed levels of services in real terms . |
| 6 | For an authority is legitimate only if there are sufficient reasons to accept it , i.e. sufficient reasons to follow its directives regardless of the balance of reasons on the merits of such action . |
| 7 | She found that , for the RVF , manual reaction times for " same " trials increased with the number of letters presented but , for the LVF , reaction time was more or less constant regardless of the number of letters presented . |
| 8 | Baumol 's theory of contestable markets states that consumer welfare can be maximised regardless of the number of firms in an industry , as long as it is greater than one . |
| 9 | If your employee has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week , regardless of the number of hours worked , she is eligible for lower rate SMP . |
| 10 | This differs from the Abbey National share allocation , where just one share allocation was permitted per saver , regardless of the number of accounts held . |
| 11 | If the model armed with a Man Catcher hits his opponent roll a D6 : if the score is more than the target 's toughness he is caught and killed automatically , regardless of the number of wounds he has or armour . |
| 12 | Once you have 60% no claim bonus , your bonus will be protected regardless of the number of claims you make , so long as you pay the extra premium . |
| 13 | Once you have 60% no claim bonus , your bonus will be protected regardless of the number of claims you make , so long as you pay the extra premium . |
| 14 | Once you have 60% no claim bonus , your bonus will be protected regardless of the number of claims you make , so long as you pay the extra premium . |
| 15 | Once you have 60% no claim bonus , your bonus will be protected regardless of the number of claims you make , so long as you pay the extra premium . |
| 16 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
| 17 | A rat can learn to cross a barrier between one side of a box and the other in response to a signal which consists merely of the train of impulses to the hippocampus as the unconditioned stimulus . |
| 18 | ‘ The speed humps will be built in a special way which makes them less of an inconvenience to buses , ’ said Mrs Standing . |
| 19 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 20 | Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power . |
| 21 | 3.4 Our signature , given on any delivery note , or other documentation , presented for signature in connection with delivery of the goods , is evidence only of the number of packages received . |
| 22 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 23 | The last fragment , D , consists entirely of a list of names . |
| 24 | At the other extreme , language work may consist mostly of the provision of stimuli to ‘ creative writing ’ . |
| 25 | Many sediments are composed not of one single grain size population , but rather of a combination of sub-populations . |
| 26 | When the issue is not of a split in attitudes ( " I will compete but I will also borrow and lend " ) the head is unlikely to find enthusiasm or coercion an appropriate tool of management . |
| 27 | They are the result of recall and not of the composition of components by the application of syntactic rules . |
| 28 | It was argued that the logical situation permits the establishment of the falsity but not of the truth of theories in the light of available observation statements . |
| 29 | For example , a site may consist largely of a number of postholes , all dating to the Neolithic period . |
| 30 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |