Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This proposition may be illustrated by considering a situation in which an investor creates a portfolio consisting of share I and the market portfolio M. If the proportion invested in I is defined as W i ( in effect W i measures the excess demand for asset I when positive and excess supply of asset I when negative ; when W i is zero then the capital market is in equilibrium as there is neither excess demand nor excess supply of asset I ) and the proportion invested in M as ( ) , an infinite number of portfolios may be created where the weights for I may vary between +1and -1 .
2 ‘ Why ca n't we move away entirely and to a new system which after proper and full consultation would set prices and regimes periodically ? ’
3 Metal hardened by deformation can be returned to its initial soft condition by ‘ annealing ’ , that is to say by heating it until total or partial recrystallization occurs , in which case most of the excess dislocations vanish .
4 It can therefore pay foreigners to stage them when polite and prolonged discussion has failed to yield results .
5 The kidneys , liver , heart , tail , tripe , and heels were packed into hampers and sent to the Lancashire manufacturing towns like Bury , Wigan , and Oldham where the factory workers prized them as cheap and nourishing food .
6 This has the effect of marginalizing non-standard vernaculars — appearing to present them as abnormal or pathological language states — when the majority of human beings throughout history must have used varieties that were , to a greater or lesser extent , non-standard .
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