Example sentences of "[conj] of a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , it is not unusual for them to decide to get another dog to keep their first dog company , and this is where the problems can arise — especially if the second dog is younger , or of a more submissive character . |
| 2 | It is unclear though whether cross-cultural differences in outcome are mainly the result of different family structures or of a more complicated cluster of culturally related variables . |
| 3 | The more remote the locality from the main network of political and other communications , the more likelihood there was of unorthodox behaviour , whether of a passive kind , as in the recesses of the gubernii of Smolensk or Kursk , or of a more menacing nature , as with the Tambov and Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 4 | Anderson 's performance errors here are again reflective of a conflict within him , although of a rather different kind . |
| 5 | Although of a somewhat specialized nature , with certain modifications . |
| 6 | There was no intention of converting Purley Depôt to a bus garage , as although of a more regular shape , its only entrance was on a busy part of the main Brighton Road and over the years there had been a number of near misses with other traffic , when trams were entering or leaving and the local press had conducted a campaign against its dangerous location . |
| 7 | However , that day , we were also on our way to battle , although of a less deadly kind and with less deadly consequences . |
| 8 | More interestingly , the report hears that SuperSparc 's clock-rate problems ‘ are more a result of a goof in the design of the cache than of an overly complex superscalar design . ’ |
| 9 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 10 | Again , self-reference , albeit of a slightly different character , is essential to the analyses of valid consent and of promising which are acts changing the normative situation because they are undertaken in the belief that they so change the normative situation . |
| 11 | The danger must be that the assessment of ‘ children in need ’ will , perforce , become another rationing device albeit of a more sophisticated kind than the ones used in the sixties . |
| 12 | For myself , middle-aged and of a generally conservative disposition , I regret these changes , in particular the depreciation of the Anglo-Welsh occasions : not only because there are fewer of them but also because the clubs now tend to field their second XVs . |
| 13 | He was not a happy child , appearing uneasy , cautious and of a rather secretive nature . |
| 14 | An exceptionally aggressive horse may reduce the position of another natural herd leader ; a racehorse that always comes last may slide down the social scale ; whereas a horse low in self-esteem and of a more passive and gentle nature , may , if its confidence is given a considerable boost , decide to dominate other horses formerly higher in the pecking order . |
| 15 | In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately . |
| 16 | The group had met on Oct. 15 and had drawn up a Report on the Commonwealth in the 1990s — a synthesis of an initial Malaysian document and of a more forceful British-drafted version proposing new Commonwealth policies favouring the promotion of democracy and human rights , and stressing the need for an independent judiciary . |
| 17 | The resignations in February 1990 of Mesut Yilmaz , the Foreign Minister [ see p. 37263 ] , and on March 28 of Ekrem Pakdemirli , the Finance Minister , were reportedly regarded as evidence of the growing alienation of the liberal faction within the ANAP and of a more determined hold within the party of a " Holy Alliance " of Islamic fundamentalists and right-wing nationalists [ see also p. 36564 ] . |
| 18 | The 15.3% swing against them in Torbay is indicative both of this and of a more generalised dissatisfaction with the policies of the council . |
| 19 | This time it was louder , closer , and of a more discernible and fervent , regular rhythm . |
| 20 | The food is nouvelle , but not to starvation point , and of a consistently high quality . |
| 21 | Fourth , that such avant-garde formations , developing specific and distanced styles within the metropolis , at once reflect and compose kinds of consciousness and practice which become increasingly relevant to a social order itself developing in the directions of metropolitan and international significance beyond the nation-state and its provinces , and of a correspondingly high cultural mobility ( cf. the relations between the Paris of 1890–1930 and the New York of 1940–70 ) . |
| 22 | It should be recalled , however , that earlier it was noted that the changes were few and of a relatively trivial nature , and in the case studies it was reported that changes following the use of the booklet tended to be shortlived . |
| 23 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 24 | Exclusive to Club 18–30 and of a very high standard , you 'll find the Aquarium hotel difficult to beat for a fantastic holiday in Majorca . |
| 25 | On the contrary , it responded to opportunities both of export abroad and of an increasingly integrated internal market . |
| 26 | The demands of a more and more complex economic life , and of an increasingly vocal and often volatile public opinion within each nation-state , were beginning to make some impression on the structure of traditional diplomacy . |
| 27 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 28 | " Conversations with a Gorilla " is not the title of a children 's fairy-tale but of a supposedly scientific contribution to the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 29 | Indeed the railways created as much beauty as they inadvertently destroyed , but of a totally different kind . |
| 30 | This is not simply a matter of economic growth , although that has become increasingly important and perhaps dominant , but of a more general development of a distinctive culture and way of life which would allow the society to take its ‘ rightful ’ place as an autonomous , self-determining unit among the other nations of the world . |