Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were in one sense still asleep and unable to know about their sexual organs , using the defence of not knowing against an anxiety aroused by the prospect of copulation . |
| 2 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 3 | This will be done primarily by evaluating the response of both demand and supply to tax changes in the past . |
| 4 | Young points out that this means the victimisation of over 20 per cent of respondents is still unknown and that such a large proportion could easily skew findings from the surveys . |
| 5 | The involuntary nature of Keynesian unemployment arises , as we saw earlier , from the inability of either workers or employers directly to exert the downward pressure on the real wage rate that was required by the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour . |
| 6 | There are amusing archaeological records in the nineteenth century of the inability of even trained artists to record what they saw ; Assyrian figure sculptures , for example , were recorded as having unmistakably classical Greek features by an artist in the employ of the archaeologist Sir Henry Layard . |
| 7 | And the addition of commercially manufactured ‘ scratching-posts ’ to the indoor furniture rarely seems to solve the problem . |
| 8 | Whatever Churchill may have said , most of Labour 's leaders were less ambitious , demanding only the addition of steeply progressive taxation to the existing apparatus of wartime control of industry . |
| 9 | It can be varied by the addition of freshly chopped herbs , mustard powder , lemon juice or garlic , or indeed by using a nut oil or a flavoured vinegar . |
| 10 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 11 | When one Landau level is full , the addition of just one more electron puts the Fermi energy EF , at the bottom of the next level , and the decrease of the Hall voltage should continue with imperceptible disturbance . |
| 12 | This is one of the reasons why the addition of quite small amounts of the wrong impurity can ruin an alloy . |
| 13 | The afternoon started with some bold blows by Fleming , but he was spectacularly caught by Nicholas , leaping high at mid-off , and the last wickets fell for the addition of only 30 runs in four overs . |
| 14 | Commercial taramasalata is often spoiled by the addition of too much bread or too much oil . |
| 15 | As mentioned in Chapter 1 , the addition of too much salt ( or sugar ) to the mixture could be dangerously counter-productive . |
| 16 | The dangers of osmotic loss of water into the gut lumen from the tissue due to the addition of too many individual glucose molecules to the rehydration solution have already been described in Chapter 1 . |
| 17 | the addition of more Eastern European languages |
| 18 | Another said the loss of one tender being moved to Bishop Auckland would be balanced by the addition of more state-of-the-art equipment coming to the town . |
| 19 | Well I was never on it I was exempt and erm the younger people were , they had the opportunity of not erm being on the shifts |
| 20 | His success could thus be explicitly attributed to that capacity for influence which British administrators had always claimed to possess , but had not normally had the opportunity of conclusively demonstrating . |
| 21 | The principal method of investigation is residential fieldwork , using standard anthropological techniques , which affords the opportunity of simultaneously conducting several continuing series of interviews with selected individuals and panels of informants . |
| 22 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |
| 23 | Then our Commanding Officer commanded Y Company , the Regimental Sergeant Major was a platoon Sergeant , and the majority of today 's soldiers were just starting their secondary schools in Hampshire . |
| 24 | Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies . |
| 25 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 26 | The only other observation is that the screen brilliance is n't up to battling with a bright sunlit office , or overhead fluorescent lights , but that could apply to the majority of today 's notebook computers . |
| 27 | Straightforward in principle , although highly complex in technical detail , the majority of today 's desk-top fax machines rarely seek to sell themselves with seductive design ( the usual Japanese route to consumer appeal ) ; they just sit there , looking like little photocopiers or big telephones , doing what they are supposed to do . |
| 28 | Serious effects fail to show themselves in the majority of reasonably pacific , law-abiding citizens , who , as a boy or girl , enjoyed the sense of power and childish delight of identifying with a fictional hero . |
| 29 | It 's clear that the majority of not only motorists but other road users , pedestrians , cyclists , bus passengers do feel that there are serious problems in urban areas , that they do need to be tackled and that one major thing that 's necessary is better enforcement of existing regulations , particularly in two areas : one , drivers that drive badly and cause danger to others and secondly , the inconsiderate parker . |
| 30 | Although the majority of weakly electric fish , in both the African and the South American groups , give their electric discharges in discrete pulses and are called " pulse " species , a minority of species in both groups do it a different way and are called " wave " species . |