Example sentences of "count [prep] [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 2 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 3 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 4 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 5 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 6 | Minor or the trace constituents then are present in concentrations less than one part per million they obviously count for less than point one percent of the total salts They are useful as chemical tracers of particular waters . |
| 7 | To the untrained eye , pretty pictures count for more than interesting spectra ; neither are they without scientific interest . |
| 8 | It may be that , in practice , the norms and practices of the various CNAA subject boards count for more than such general sentiments . |
| 9 | The ideal counted for more than the reality . |
| 10 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 11 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 12 | Academic ability was to count for more than ‘ redness ’ and class background , offering a ‘ new dawn ’ ( ZGQN 1988 ( 1 ) : 2 ) for China 's youth . |
| 13 | In such circumstances the opinions and interests of those most directly affected ought to count for more than the opinions of those of us who are only marginally affected , if at all . |
| 14 | The fact is that , when children really need to be aggressive , their artificial , if realistic-looking weapons seem to count for less than such natural weapons as teeth and fists . |
| 15 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Left hand Pillar Crack , besides having a name redolent of times when tradition counted for more than imagination , is a superb little layback testpiece . |
| 17 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |