Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Optimistic courtiers suggest that only the marriage of the Queen 's youngest son , Prince Edward , to a suitable bride could redeem the popularity of the Monarchy . |
| 3 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 4 | The crux of the matter is that while one can accept the proposition that judicial labels often express a conclusion already reached , rather than dictate the result which should be arrived at , to infer that therefore the type of labels that we use are irrelevant is a non sequitur . |
| 5 | Lawyers say that quite a lot of Jason 's £35,000 will go in George 's fees . |
| 6 | When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’ |
| 7 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 8 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 9 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 10 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 11 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 12 | As with the arrangements for exhibitions , it is recommended that firstly the agreement of the responsibly body is sought , followed up by a discussion with the headmaster and janitor/caretaker about the specific needs for the meeting . |
| 13 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 14 | Then his corpulent body collapsed and gradually the noise of his drunken snoring drowned out the quiet sobbing of the Annamese girl . |
| 15 | Therefore the amount taken needs to be related to the type of job a person has and also the type of training he undertakes . |
| 16 | These numbers are also relevant for attempts to solve Fermat 's Conjecture ( se Section 3.5 ) and indeed the FC would be solved if only the uniqueness of factorisation theorem valid for numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib extended to them . |
| 17 | A muddy substratum is recommended and therefore a mixture of clay and peat is satisfactory . |
| 18 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 19 | Hence the difficulty in establishing what ‘ the public ’ really wants and consequently the impossibility of knowing how far in excess of that the overall level of public-service activity really is . |
| 20 | For example an R & ID department can specify " the resources it needs and even the direction of its work . |
| 21 | But maybe he thinks Hollywood is less the big break he needs and more a kind of career prat fall . |
| 22 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
| 23 | you see and they 're asking for people who could ref who could , you know , give references to cos like put all these , all , down on these different things that you want like you know , say you want but then a lot of people just put down small business and management , something like that . |
| 24 | But if the moment of performance is considered as potentially an act of composition , a different perspective can emerge . |
| 25 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 26 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 27 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 28 | He admits that it may be possible to use reason to a limited extent , but he insists that ultimately the existence of God defies all proof and has to be based on faith which transcends reason .. |
| 29 | In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed . |
| 30 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |