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 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus this paper supplies only a part of the substantiation which the foregoing analysis requires . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 13 | The reporting system covers only a proportion of the chemicals emitted and also exempts many types of plants , including public utilities . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There 's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum , as if she has n't a brain between the ears ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She 's has n't a soul in the world barring her sister who came down and identified the bodies . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | As far as my own case is concerned , the scapegoating theory , delineated above , describes only a portion of the truth about emptiness . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is also a Senior Liaison Committee , which includes representatives from the three departments , and from the Police and the Justices ' Clerks , which meets twice a year under the chairmanship of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 29 | There are now over 20 members in the judo club which meets twice a week in the Egremont market hall . |
| 30 | It was Pybus who had the brilliant idea of putting the thing out to tender and , despite my warnings , thought that no one could match the school 's price of 158 banana chews , free strawberry milkshakes once a week during the season and a promise from Mike Channon that he would play the Virgin Mary in the school nativity play . |