Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 2 | This represents perhaps an indication of the forced nature of the experience — forced by the combination of the sensation of immobility of REM sleep in association with the rich visual experience offered by the overactive hindbrain . |
| 3 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 4 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 5 | On the other hand , once estimated , the known user total still represents only a proportion of the total user population and , thus , a multiplier factor is needed , that is to say , a ratio of unknown to known heroin use , in order to determine the size of the total heroin user population ( Hartnoll et al. |
| 6 | Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover . |
| 7 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 8 | Thus this paper supplies only a part of the substantiation which the foregoing analysis requires . |
| 9 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other . |
| 11 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 12 | In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast . |
| 13 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 14 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 15 | The reporting system covers only a proportion of the chemicals emitted and also exempts many types of plants , including public utilities . |
| 16 | The positive levels effect of the exchange rate , on the other hand , probably illustrates more a coincidence with the trend of eurodollar issuance , as does the level of the euro/domestic differential . |
| 17 | These days it has also a dependency in the mountains beyond , a winter-sports and high-summer Annexe , called Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin , at 5 , 500 feet . |
| 18 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 19 | There 's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum , as if she has n't a brain between the ears ! |
| 20 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 21 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 22 | She 's has n't a soul in the world barring her sister who came down and identified the bodies . ’ |
| 23 | The neck has been bound to include the fret ends , which is another nice touch as it looks tidier and actually adds quite a lot to the overall feel of the fingerboard . |
| 24 | Onslow 's has quite a scoop with the keys of Ernest Hemming , lamp-trimmer — each stamped Titanic and estimated at £4,000 ; it also has a doll found floating around the wreck and which was mistaken for the body of a child , at £1,500/3,000 . |
| 25 | Eight years later , the group still has neither a title to the 32 hectares , nor a formal guarantee of its right to occupy : its tenure rests on a letter from the National Agrarian Institute which simply acknowledges its presence . |
| 26 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |
| 27 | As far as my own case is concerned , the scapegoating theory , delineated above , describes only a portion of the truth about emptiness . |
| 28 | Grand 's choice of guitars betrays not an ounce of the usual blues axe snobbery … |
| 29 | A self-help support group which meets once a month in the evenings ( usually the first Friday in the month ) to talk informally , or to listen to a speaker . |
| 30 | What happens is that the drug kills off a lot of the resident Candida , the yeast cells burst open , and some of the cell contents are absorbed into the bloodstream , producing an exaggerated version of the usual symptoms . |