Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level .
2 If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises .
3 If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 ( Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration ) stands over from an earlier day , paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the proceedings on the Bill for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion .
4 ( 4 ) If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 stands over from an earlier day , the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which under this Order are to be brought to a conclusion on that day shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion .
5 It all adds up to a better deal , for your managers , your training budget and for effective corporate management development .
6 She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again .
7 This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response .
8 This leads on to a further point .
9 Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible .
10 One of the rooms , the Osiris chapel , leads through to a further suite of rooms , dedicated to the Osirian cult .
11 Thus with their typically lower pay ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) and lower lifetime earnings compared with men , the average woman ends up with a lower salary or wage on which to base her final salary for the purposes of working out occupational pension entitlements .
12 The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly .
13 A quarterly newsletter is distributed to several hundred members , and a monthly ‘ Spokesworker ’ goes out to a smaller group of committed activists .
14 But as Robins points out in a later paper , a wide variety of anti-social childhood behaviour predicts a wide variety of adult deviant behaviour , rather than , as some have claimed , particular behaviour being predictive of specific offences ( e.g. conduct disorder predicting property but not person offences ) .
15 This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention .
16 If the launch is too fast the pilot simply pulls up into a steeper climb .
17 Nomad moves on to a larger site
18 If the lamp remains on for a longer time it is possible that the incorrect outer ( track ) connection to the rotary potentiometer VR2 has been used .
19 This is not wanted to there has to be a circuit arrangement which does not respond to a short pulse from the batting l.e.d. but acts only if this l.e.d. remains on for a longer period , that is , when the batsman has correctly intercepted the ball .
20 The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level .
21 As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither .
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