Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 2 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 3 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 4 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 5 | It would not , in my opinion , be open to an investor to retain the purchased shares and , under section 5 , to claim back the purchase money less the financial value of the retained shares . |
| 6 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 7 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 8 | Within the fragments only a limited amount of variance in the ordering of the tales is possible ; rather more diverse is the order in which the fragments can be and are found to be arranged . |
| 9 | As a result only a thin stratum of wealthy native merchants developed . |
| 10 | Correct parrying requires of the defender only a simple movement of the wrist . |
| 11 | the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ . |
| 12 | A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it . |
| 13 | Technical disturbances arising from the interaction between communism and the novel form are consequently in Nizan 's eyes merely the logical outcome of the communist writer 's refusal to acquiesce to what are perceived as the oppressive structures of bourgeois politics , ethics and culture . |
| 14 | It was hoped that the concession by Paris Club members would halve Egypt 's US$20,200 million government-to-government debt by means of an immediate forgiveness of 15 per cent , followed by a further 15 per cent cut once an 18-month programme of IMF-supported economic reform had been carried out , and a further 20 per cent written off in July 1994 . |
| 15 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |
| 16 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 17 | The occasion became one of national self-assertion and two months later the whole edifice of Eastern European solidarity was undermined when Hungary allowed East German citizens to exit to Austria via its territory . |
| 18 | The relative stability in the months following the purported declaration of independence back in May last year was very welcome and we must do all that we can to re-establish it , but sheer names on pieces of paper will not do so . |
| 19 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 20 | With this second choice for eqn ( 9.8 ) is replaced by solutions Now the light cone of a source within the horizon tilts so that it points outward . |
| 21 | The British are in effect now the nuclear laboratory of the world . |
| 22 | If this pattern is maintained in the future then the increased number of those aged 85+ will have important implications for the workload of family doctors . |
| 23 | As we began to develop a feasible research design we had in mind initially the broad aim of developing a clearer picture of the referral and investigative work of the team . |
| 24 | Gorbachev again the reluctant guest of honour : Rupert Cornwell , our Moscow correspondent , who accompanied Mikhail Gorbachev on his momentous trip to Peking in May , considers the possible parallels with East Berlin |
| 25 | They agreed to assist and aid financially the socioeconomic development of French overseas territories , to align social legislation on holidays and equal pay with that of France ( something which would raise production costs in all five countries ) , to allow France to retain its system of export subsidies and import taxes until it could acquire financial equilibrium . |
| 26 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 27 | In the consolidated p&l account , the gain is nil — the difference between the proceeds of £2.1m less the fair value of the assets of £1.8m plus the goodwill of £0.3m , previously written off to the merger reserve . |
| 28 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
| 29 | The dividend in consumption is defined as " the cost of 1972 pre-entry consumption less the minimum cost of purchasing an equally desirable bundle at post-entry prices . " |
| 30 | Clearly , as with the existing ‘ subjective ’ and ‘ departmental ’ analyses so the clinical analysis of expenditure may be provided in greater or lesser degrees of details . |