Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxiety over global environmental change has perhaps made us more aware of the converse idea : that the activities of microbes largely determine the state of the biosphere , and in particular the evolution of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 2 | Acute illness episodes were also significant , restricting the activities of men over 75 for an average 47 days each year , and of women for an average 61 days each year — compared with 23 days and 29 days respectively for men and women of all ages . |
| 3 | Our case is that , while the nature of the social relations at the workplace is clearly an important differentiating characteristic of the Dukeries field , they are probably a necessary but insufficient factor to account for the response of miners there to the 1926 and 1984 calls to strike . |
| 4 | In other words , instead of preserving a level of insider employment L 1 at a lower real wage rate w 2 , the level of employment among insiders falls to L 2 owing to the inability of insiders directly to influence the real wage rate . |
| 5 | A fact that becomes clear , however , was that the addition of heparin undoubtedly raised the incidence of bleeding ; those on no heparin had no severe bleeding , those who had subcutaneous heparin bled in about 0.5% of cases and those who received full heparin therapy bled in about 1% of cases . |
| 6 | The addition of lecithin progressively shifted cholesterol to the non vesicular phase . |
| 7 | According to Melnick ( 1986:1–2 ) , ‘ The forms of misbehaviour commonly associated with football hooliganism include physical assaults on opposing fans and police , pitch invasions , throwing missiles , verbal abuse , vandalism , drunkenness , theft and possession of an offensive weapon . ’ |
| 8 | Certificates are decisions of the employer 's agent : in the forms of contract usually encountered , the certificates are reviewable by arbitration . |
| 9 | While both tuned and untuned percussion instruments can be used in many of the forms of accompaniment already mentioned , as part of an ensemble or orchestra , those of indefinite pitch such as cymbals , gongs , and drums need special mention because they can be used alone , without using other conventional instruments . |
| 10 | This unstable identification — much more unstable than the forms of identification usually associated with cinema — is reinforced by the much looser rules of engagement implied by television 's interruptable time . |
| 11 | This marks a change since 1969 , when HP and mail order were the forms of credit most often considered but not used . |
| 12 | The majority of builders therefore prepare a second set of accounts known as the cost accounts . |
| 13 | The fact that the majority of families now only have two children may add additional value and intensity to the sibling relationship . |
| 14 | I shall now endeavour to show that the lack of real happiness manifested by the majority of adults today is due to the fact that they are experiencing , not an improving , but a continually deteriorating use of their psycho-physical selves . |
| 15 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 16 | The evidence for destruction of buildings is almost non-existent and the human remains of ‘ the victims ’ in the majority of cases clearly belong to organized burials in small cemeteries , post-dating the occupation of some of the villa buildings . |
| 17 | Whereas the older ‘ career ’ users served their ‘ apprenticeship ’ at a time when the majority of users also injected , this fund of knowledge was not readily available to the new users . |
| 18 | These twin problems of psychological dependence and social pressure were regarded by the majority of users as more difficult to overcome than the physical aspect of their addiction . |
| 19 | Can he confirm that there will be no discrimination against state schools , for which the majority of parents still exercise a preference , or in favour of the segregated education system that the Roman Catholic Church and most Catholic parents want to maintain ? |
| 20 | The majority of mothers just could n't care less . |
| 21 | As yet , very few people were about , the majority of holiday-makers still at breakfast . |
| 22 | Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know . |
| 23 | The majority of teachers also examine the results by looking at : |
| 24 | No vote was taken , but the majority of delegates reportedly expressed a preference for the retention of the present de facto one-party system . |
| 25 | Strange really as the majority of games early in his career were in mid-field as deputy for E.Gray . |
| 26 | The majority of hotels now use the printed registration forms ( Fig. 3.8 ) because of their many advantages : |
| 27 | The majority of hostels now offer family accommodation and all provide excellent , free , self-catering facilities , though breakfast ( £2.30 ) , packed lunch ( £1.95 ) , and evening meal ( from £3.50 ) are widely available and some hostels even run to a wine list . |
| 28 | The majority of sub-contractors either price an extract from the bill of quantities or prepare an estimate from the drawings and specification . |
| 29 | In 1872 the Catholic Archbishop Cardinal Manning announced that the majority of clerics now believed that there was nothing incompatible between evolutionary science and their own theological system . |
| 30 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |