Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adv] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On Nov. 5 Chiluba launched a major reorganization of both the civil service and parastatal organizations . |
| 5 | This technique of thinking of how the notes relate to chords is an extremely important improvising and compositional skill , and you 'll find that perseverance produces results that are well worth the effort . |
| 6 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 7 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 8 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 9 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 10 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 11 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 12 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |
| 13 | Their legs would need to be proportionately stronger , more like a reptile 's or a mammal 's , in which case they would need to have the metabolism of either a reptile or a mammal . |
| 14 | While approaching the Firth of Forth the ship took on a lot of water during bad weather . |
| 15 | I felt there was public benefit from offering this type of information by radio and I have asked Media Action to let us have the enquirers ' addresses so that we can get a geographical appreciation of where the calls came from ( one or two came from Fife ) |
| 16 | Crucial to an understanding of the human mosaic , therefore , is appreciation of how the opportunities have been identified and acted upon , and how the barriers posed by the constraints have been tackled . |
| 17 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 18 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 19 | Although this work concerns itself primarily with the organization of knowledge and the production of indexes , catalogues and databases , it is imperative that the indexer should have an appreciation of how the index is to be used . |
| 20 | Thus his/her appreciation of perhaps a landscape , but the dismissal of , say , a Pollock or Mondrian . |
| 21 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 22 | Annexation and the incorporation of both the indigenous and refugee Palestinians created a fundamental instability in the new kingdom . |
| 23 | From January 1948 the line formed part of the Western Region of British Railways until the closure of practically the whole line in December 1960 . |
| 24 | For most general practitioners a huge increase in workload and a decrease in job satisfaction will result from the closure of almost a quarter of London 's hospital beds . |
| 25 | However , looking at these changes with the INSET concepts of a later date , it is interesting to note that the four major texts upon the history of curriculum change ( Bernard , 1962 ; Boyd , 1961 ; Gordon and Lawton , 1978 ; Dent , 1982 ) , whilst extensively detailing the changes which were the subject of public intention , make no mention of either the machinery whereby the new ideology was introduced to teachers nor of the effects upon teacher practice in the schools . |
| 26 | Deprived nowadays of their railway and most of the buses , the village school closed and the loss of even the village postman , the villagers are determined the feast will survive . |
| 27 | The loss of just a handful of Democratic seats could create an effective Republican majority on specific issues , and could even put that chamber under Republican control . |
| 28 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 30 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |