Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consumer electronics exports grew more slowly than in the previous year , but sales of computer disks rose by 31 per cent to S$7,200 million . |
| 2 | Jazz rhythms emerged as easily as did the eastern element and music of genuine integrity was the result . |
| 3 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 4 | Forward control and LWB rear have spring pads set further apart than SWB . |
| 5 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 6 | Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators . |
| 7 | Muslins and calicoes became the fashionable fabrics , and under the determined leadership of Sir Josiah Child profits went up sharply if not always regularly in the 1670s and 1680s , so that the price of shares rose ninefold between 1660 and 1685 . |
| 8 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 9 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 10 | And up and up and up … my pedal rotations became ever slower until a dreadful realisation dawned on me . |
| 11 | As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ? |
| 12 | If real product wages rise more slowly than productivity then the profit share rises . |
| 13 | Ample labour supplies permitted the operation of new machines without the need for product wages to rise as fast as productivity . |
| 14 | By the end of the period , however , the tighter labour market forced product wages to rise as fast as productivity to ensure sufficient scrapping to provide labour to operate newly installed equipment . |
| 15 | Few infant mammals grow as quickly as an elephant seal pup . |
| 16 | The canyon walls came close together as they rode in gathering darkness . |
| 17 | Fortunately , not all curtain walls last as long as Eternit . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , as Table 4.6 shows there were no strong differences , and certainly none showing action sample clients faring significantly better than control samples . |
| 19 | Why , then , are pedigree dogs seen as frequently as mongrels in rescue homes ? |
| 20 | The bustle at London termini to load newspaper trains ended in july when BR terminated the contracts remaining after the previous year 's transfer to road by News International and the Mirror Group . |
| 21 | Water seagulls fly in apparently because erm . |
| 22 | Most public health service doctors work in more than one job and , because pay and conditions are so poor , many doctors and nurses decide to leave El Salvador . |
| 23 | ‘ In the event teachers received slightly more than 7.2 per cent . |
| 24 | PRICE records tumbled as more than £12 million changed hands at an auction of Old Masters by Christie 's yesterday . |
| 25 | Overall then , not only were female GP referrals sectioned less frequently than other female referrals , but when sectioned they were less frequently subject to the lengthier section 3 . |
| 26 | Nor do paper cups break down quickly if buried . |
| 27 | The incentive given to savings and loan associations to invest as riskily as they could , the blind eye turned to supervision of thrifts and banks alike , the abolition of tax credits for investment : all were passed on almost without friction by the smooth wheels of finance . |
| 28 | In the breeding season males peek more often than females . |
| 29 | Bent DNA can be detected due to anomalous migration in polyacrylamide gels since bent DNA fragments migrate more slowly than linear fragments of the same size . |
| 30 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |