Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , as interpreters of animal behaviour we have our own convenience to consider ; to dissolve species ( and human societies too , as in classical economics ) into uniformly egoistic atoms offers much the best prospect of finding simple laws to apply to them . |
| 2 | The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science . |
| 3 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 4 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 5 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 6 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 7 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 8 | This represents only a small proportion of the structure . |
| 9 | They are bogging down ; and even if some formula is reached which both sides can sign , Joshua represents only a small minority of Africans . |
| 10 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 11 | But this sum — under 4% of the Block — represents only a small fraction of spending from the Block on education in Scotland . |
| 12 | All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs . |
| 13 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 14 | It may be observed that the linear regression line in Fig. 1 represents only the general tendency of the association between women 's age at first marriage and at first birth . |
| 15 | The Royal Bank of Scotland plc [ a Member of IMRO and of SFA ] represents only The royal Bank of Scotland Marketing Group for life assurance , pensions and unit trust business . |
| 16 | The legal profession offers only a limited range of negative criteria , although there exist many eulogies of good practice from which rules of conduct could be extrapolated by a neophyte practitioner ( e.g. Malcolm 1966 ; Megarry 1962 ) . |
| 17 | Accordingly s.6(1) offers only a partial definition of " intention of permanently depriving " . |
| 18 | There is a dictum in Edwards v Ddin [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 942 ( DC ) that s.5 offers only a partial definition of " belonging to another " , but the statement is probably incorrect . |
| 19 | The smoothing recipe described below generally gives satisfactory results and involves only a limited amount of computational effort . |
| 20 | ‘ Thus , although Dillons discounts only a limited range of titles , the knock-on effect of its advertising campaign and aggressive marketing is that it brings people into its shops , and generates the belief that all books are cheaper in Dillons , not just discounted titles . |
| 21 | Our truancy is defined by one fixed star , and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it : we may seize the moment , toss it around while the moments pass , a short dash here , an exploration there , but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact — that we , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , bearing a letter from one king to another , are taking Hamlet to England . |
| 22 | Colonization involves merely a geographical extension of domestic law ; adoption of another State 's code is a short-cut route to the creation of the developing State 's law and does not have as its objective the facilitation of a common market or of inter-State commerce . |
| 23 | And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace . |
| 24 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 25 | We have finally come to realise that the fine texture of a beautiful English rose skin needs only a translucent wash of colour to promote its much-envied natural radiance . |
| 26 | Indeed , the party might well stay in power unless the Liberals win outright since it has much the better chance of putting together a coalition with other parties . |
| 27 | For those who want to make a choice or are for some reason coming new to Ferrier , I would recommend the fifth disc with the unforgettable Chausson and Brahms , the sixth , which has some of her best and most lovable performances of British song , including Purcell 's Mad Bess of Bedlam preciously available only in an EP , allied to some precious Wolf , sung with new-found subtlety of nuance , from a Norwegian Radio recital , and the ninth disc , the Edinburgh recital with Walter , which has much the more telling of her two accounts of Frauenliebe und -leben . |
| 28 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 29 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 30 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |