Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is curiously not in January when the climate is at its most bleak and icy that suicides peak .
2 A further example of this is shown in Table 8.1 ; each personnel record holds a number of fields , any one of which may be used as a key .
3 It 's that let's-get-on-with-it expression .
4 This indivisibility problem will tend to be smaller if each futures contract has a small nominal value , and the total value of the arbitrage transaction is very large .
5 It is assumed that each futures contract is priced according to the no-arbitrage condition , that is , F = ( S - D ) × ( l+r ) .
6 The view is taken that futures perspectives are already implicit in the work of schools , but largely unexamined .
7 We were actually presenting it in conjunction with that soft-drinks company , our three best DJs the compères . ’
8 The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time .
9 as if this were not enough , Southend is served by the so-called Misery Line , a blighted stretch of railway that shuttles Essex people irregularly into Fenchurch Street .
10 But Mr Patten , who has been at the Home Office as Minister of State for four years , has clearly harboured doubts about his decision to turn down that Arts job .
11 This implies that the player A's type is slowly revealed to the B t 's , since the least squares projection ( 4 ) converges in probability to z if the Ct 's are static .
12 Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression .
13 The conventional approach to such questions is to use ordinary least squares regression methods , which are often unsatisfactory .
14 He specified the relationship as a simple least squares regression as follows : where
15 Dose-response curves were constructed by weighted least squares regression analysis of the data on a third order polynomial model using a computer program ( Sigmaplot , Jandel Scientific , Corte Madera , Ca , USA ) .
16 Suppose we expect the relation ( 1 ) to be unc and suppose further that we have the following experimental table : unc Then in view of ( 5 ) our equations for solutions may be written unc Before we proceed to the least squares solution , let us see what results would be obtained if we solved these equations three at a time , with e taken to be zero for each set of three .
17 The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method .
18 The ordinary least squares model , with forced zero intercept term , is pop 81 = 5.41 houses or , with Poisson errors : pop 81 = 5.40 houses This result implies that each pixel classified as having people living in it , and there are 86 178 of these , will on average contain 5.4 people .
19 At this karavanserai merchants had bartered Damascus brocades for Chinese spices ; camels and goats for slaves ; thin , brittle pottery for water or weapons .
20 In some courts applications were successful in 96 per cent of cases ; in other courts only 9 per cent were successful .
21 Well we do have erm some discussions seminars where between ten and fifteen students are able to discuss matters relating to the course .
22 In many third world countries human waste is used as fertiliser , and indeed in some oases night soil clearance areas are valued .
23 By some accounts fire had been directed at the camp by Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) forces — an accusation which the OLF denied .
24 Do you want some vegetables Chris ?
25 Cunningham travelled to New Zealand with another Lions replacement , Martin Johnson , who has the advantage of being fully match-fit after touring Canada with England .
26 Pour into glasses , top each one with a whole fresh strawberry and serve with a few amaretti biscuits .
27 For some minutes Harry sat extremely still to leach the sting .
28 He was now working for another futures broker and wanted these both for his own business , and to put into a mailing list he would sell .
29 There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals .
30 In some groups backbenchers may be largely unimportant ; in others they may be able to play a decisive role in promoting policy initiatives .
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