Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most convincing indication of a dent in poverty is marketing information showing that the boom in consumer durables in the 1980s was by no means limited to the top 10% of the population . |
| 3 | It was certainly clear , as the 1970s drew to a close , that the nationalities question was by no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to consign it , and even Brezhnev , recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution , warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually ‘ dangerous ’ if the steady convergence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated . |
| 4 | Although overt proclamations of the need to maintain English as a " manly " educational pursuit by no means disappeared during the inter-war period , the pages of the Review reveal few of the defensive and often hysterical avowals of the discipline 's " manliness " that had been characteristic of the earlier period . |
| 5 | But this role is by no means confined to the Twelve . |
| 6 | Discrimination in the job market is by no means confined to the medical profession . |
| 7 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 8 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |
| 9 | Although laissez-faire was by no means discarded in the 1930s and the dead hand of economic orthodoxy , particularly in fiscal matters remained strong , there were signs of change in the stance of government in some areas . |
| 10 | There are very many more species , but I believe enough have been indicated to let you see that the rose is by no means restricted to the Hybrid Tea — there are many other kinds to provide variation and interest . |
| 11 | But plans to build the hospice on a site in Upton , Wirral , were blocked after people living near the proposed development claimed the centre would cause too much disturbance and a colony of protected bats would be driven away . |
| 12 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 13 | On the black walls of the tomb chamber were scraps of graffiti written in the eighteenth dynasty , a thousand years after the pyramid was built . |
| 14 | Having designed a modern airframe , airfoil section and chosen the best of modern and traditional materials , they now produce a range of aircraft based on the basic airframe . |
| 15 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 16 | This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ . |
| 17 | An analysis of data collected over the past 50 years by national forestry ministries shows , however , that there has been a sharp decline in the volume of boreal wood " and hence the capacity to absorb carbon dioxide " since the 1960s , as a result of more intensive logging and increased dieback because of the effects of acid rain , pests and fires . |
| 18 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 19 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 20 | Synthesis of data arising from the recent discoveries of gold in south Devon suggests the presence of two phases of gold mineralisation . |
| 21 | Five of the nine practices had been collecting the types of data required by the regional health authority for several years , and all of the practices had computer systems in operation before the preparation period . |
| 22 | Conservatives have set a target of £20,000 to raise for the General Election campaign . |
| 23 | Foreign exchange reserves reached $1,500,800,000 by end-1989 , an increase of $436,900,000 compared with the previous year . |
| 24 | The figure represents a rise of £848 compared to the 1991 surplus . |
| 25 | The SQQ for the Monday to Thursday period ended 29 october was calculated at 73.51p per kg lw , which represents a fall of 0.79p compared with the corresponding period last week . |
| 26 | ( i ) Petition and a copy ( and an additional copy for the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement unless he is the petitioner ) and a further copy for the petitioner or his solicitor ; ( ii ) affidavit verifying the petition with a copy of the petition exhibited ( see section 9 below ) ; ( iii ) receipt for deposit of £240 paid to the official receiver ( Insolvency Fees ( Amendment ) Order 1990 ) -this sum can be paid to the court who will remit it to the official receiver ; ( iv ) affidavit of service of statutory demand ( if applicable ) ; ( v ) court fee : £45 . |
| 27 | The early history of the album is unknown , although it was in America at one time , as it bears a tantalising price of $35 inscribed in the upper right corner of the first page . |
| 28 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 29 | ‘ At least eight companies in the north-east of Scotland , employing about 1,000 people in total , are very heavily dependant on the type of fish obtained from the Arctic and future viability will be doubtful without these supplies . ’ |
| 30 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |