Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introductory remarks found at the beginning of a book , usually by someone who is not the author of the book . |
| 2 | Many women report the total surprise caused by the swiftness of random attack leaves them paralysed and unable to fight back . |
| 3 | The winter Consolidated Fund Act authorizes the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the total sun required by the winter supplementaries for the current year and for the vote on account for the following year . |
| 4 | The whole apparatus is part of the inner ear , and the total system works in the same fluid which also surrounds the cochlear ( that is the part of the inner ear with 20,000–25,000 minute hairs which respond to sound waves ) . |
| 5 | A priori this latter feature might be thought somewhat undesirable as it implies that the higher the rate of growth of wealth the lower the share of the total portfolio held within the UK . |
| 6 | The total hours spent on the carriage so far are 226 hours 30 minutes . |
| 7 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 8 | The total cost allocated to the various headings under each contract will be entered in a cost ledger as a permanent record each month . |
| 9 | The mean Developmental Sentence Score ( DSS ) is derived by adding the total sentences score for a sample of 50 utterances and dividing the total by 50 . |
| 10 | It is worth noting that all members of the Campaign against Toxic Waste were unpaid volunteers but nevertheless the total expenditure incurred on the successful prosecution of it was in excess of £350,000 . |
| 11 | There were five dams built , none of which had to undergo frequent repairs , and the total expenditure incurred by the project up to the end of 1987 was $1.4 billion , not $14 billion as the article asserts . |
| 12 | If the bureau observes the requirement that the total budget be equal to the total benefit derived from the good , the new equilibrium output is Oq b ' ( where area P 1 15 = area 567 ) . |
| 13 | As with the Accident section of the policy cover is provided for medical expenses necessarily incurred in connection with the sickness up to 15% of the total benefit paid during the period of a claim . |
| 14 | Is it only the additional or marginal cost to the employer providing the service for the employee , or is it a proportionate part of the total costs incurred by the employer in providing the facility to be used both by the public and by the employee ? |
| 15 | Such a programme could , says the report , save 10% of the total energy consumed in the UK , or £4.5 billion a year . |
| 16 | ‘ even If we lose 10,000 brain cells a day from the time we are born , we have started with so many that the total number lost by the age of 60 would be less than 3 Per cent . ’ |
| 17 | Although the total numbers used in the USA are vastly higher , Rollin ( 1981 : 91 ) gives a figure of around 100 million for 1980 but this had reportedly declined by about 10 per cent by 1988 , the percentage breakdowns are remarkably similar . |
| 18 | Mr Tweedie said that , at present , it was all too easy for users to be left unaware of the total assets employed in a business , and its overall funding . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Generally it is the total trade associated with a CU which should be investigated . |
| 21 | The total revenue expected from the sale of the forests , comprising some 550,000 hectares ( just under half the country 's total forested area ) of mostly pine trees , was expected to be between NZ$2,500 million and NZ$4,500 million . |
| 22 | The chapter ends with an approximate calculation of the overall cost of the project , and this is compared with a calculation of the total sum saved through the operation of the project . |
| 23 | The number of night visits made in each quarter was estimated by dividing the total sum paid by the fee payable for each visit in the preceding quarter . |
| 24 | 2.38 There is no authority on the appropriate principles to be adopted in apportioning the amount recovered , but the practice in widows ' claims is to award the greater part of the total sum awarded to the widow on the assumption that she will maintain the children as long as they are dependent and to award comparatively small sums to the children themselves . |
| 25 | As an order depriving the owner of his rights in property must ( in accordance with a number of decisions ) be treated as part of the total punishment imposed on an offender , an order depriving only one of them of his rights in an object of significant value . |
| 26 | The valiant efforts of at Kilburn brought the total amount raised by the store to over £850. dressed as a clown to sell door knockers and held a collection . |
| 27 | This figure is known as the ‘ unit cost ’ , and is arrived at simply by dividing the total amount spent on a service ( e.g. nursery schools ) by the number of children using it ( expressed as ‘ full-time equivalents ’ , so that two part-time children would count as one full-time equivalent ) . |
| 28 | Much of the debate properly focuses upon the total amount allocated for the NHS , rather than the RAWP procedure which is used to share most of this money out . |
| 29 | The difference between the total amount paid for the business and the book value of its net assets will represent goodwill , which is an asset for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 30 | The bank then transfers the appropriate amounts to the creditors ' banks , and deducts the total amount paid from the trader 's account . |