Example sentences of "of [noun sg] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if the price of whisky is already so high that no-one is prepared to buy any more if the price goes up again ? |
| 2 | The element of causality in the sacrament of unity is undoubtedly the primary one , from 1 Corinthians 10 onward . |
| 3 | IMHO he suits better at Leeds ( of course ; - ] ) — the Leeds way of play is more in style with our national team than Spurs — but then again Ardiles might need some player up front after Gordon Duris 's outburst … |
| 4 | Here , the aim of assessment is simply to identify whether or not the child 's language is unusual or atypical compared with that of other children of a similar age or in respect of other aspects of development . |
| 5 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) has assigned to local authority social services departments the lead responsibility for the co-ordination and production of community care assessments of individual older people and the process of development of criteria , mechanisms , and models of assessment is underway in most social service departments . |
| 6 | A move away from the preceding year basis of assessment is long overdue and should be welcomed by all . |
| 7 | CD 's original for certain aspects of the character of Podsnap is generally agreed to have been his dogmatic friend , John Forster . |
| 8 | Progressive ‘ improvement ’ of the kind suggested by the arms-race image does go on , even if it goes on spasmodically and interruptedly ; even if its net rate of progress is too slow to be detected within the lifetime of a man , or even within the timespan of recorded history . |
| 9 | Further , the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date . |
| 10 | However , the rate of progress is far too slow and the relevant minister needs to get involved . |
| 11 | There is generally little intermarriage between the Central Asians and other non-Muslim nationalities , and a knowledge of Russian is much less common than it is elsewhere in the other post-Soviet republics . |
| 12 | The key feature of all models of hysteresis is obviously present in the insider-outsider model : it is only during the process of adjustment from a higher to a lower level of employment that there will be significant downward pressure on the rate of increase of money wages and prices . |
| 13 | As ale drinkers are swift to confirm , the flavour of bitter is more delicate and complex than lager and more difficult to reproduce . |
| 14 | £1,000 worth of technical and sales training and technical notes , with an additional £1,200 of support is also included in the deal . |
| 15 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 16 | Although the support worker may be able to engage in other office-based tasks at the same time , this method of support is clearly available only in those bureaux where there is a worker available to fill it . |
| 17 | The importance of support is almost certainly to some extent bound up with self-esteem and the ability of the individual to cope with difficulties as they arise ( Brown et al. , 1986a ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) Given that adverse life events can bring about affective disorders , this is hardly surprising as a general conclusion . |
| 18 | It is clear from the evidence on British kinship that people do acknowledge a wide range of uncles , aunts , nieces , nephews and cousins as forming part of their kin network in some sense , but whether these people place a significant part in structures of support is quite another matter . |
| 19 | Generally speaking the businesses that obtained government-guaranteed loan funds have produced problems : They require greater monitoring and supervising than the banks normally like to devote to small businesses and , as the type of support is very often a last resource , they must be considered more risky than the norm . |
| 20 | In Britain , which suffers most from the CAP , the cost of support is around double the gain to British farmers ( Richard Howarth , The Common Agricultural policy ) . |
| 21 | The management of change is also an important feature . |
| 22 | This kind of change is simply disguised by the use of quasi-scientific measures and statistics of ‘ literacy ’ . |
| 23 | These variable data give us a basis for examining processes of change , since they suggest initially that either the higher or lower variants are innovatory , or — more properly — that the direction of change is either raising or lowering of /Ε/.; |
| 24 | The management of this type of change is distinctly different in a number of ways from the management of change in many other arenas that concern human resource development ( HRD ) practitioners daily . |
| 25 | The trajectory of change is schematically represented in Figure 1 . |
| 26 | Such interaction is threatened when the pace of change is too fast or when the nature of that change is so radical as to transform the nature of the activity . |
| 27 | The detailed design of farm buildings changed only gradually in the past , but the rate and type of change is now very much quicker as a result of the significant alterations in farming methods which have occurred since World Wall II — primarily greatly increased mechanisation . |
| 28 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 29 | That the phenomenon of demographic transition exists is unquestionable though , nowadays , the timescale of change is so condensed that the metamorphosis of a developing country may appear superficially different from that of eighteenth-century Europe . |
| 30 | The massive decline of the state hospital population in the USA , from a peak of half a million in 1955 to 191,000 twenty years later indicates that the scale of change is indeed highly significant , and that , in some form , a transfer of care has occurred . |