Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agriculture has fewer and fewer workers to give up to industry or the tertiary sector , and short-term migrant or daily labour has steadily declined from a peak in the 1960s . |
| 2 | Money counts more than Monet in the 1990s . |
| 3 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 4 | If he considers that the proposed change has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale , the Change Management Procedures can be bypassed and there is no need for any further action . |
| 5 | ‘ For Tavernier , the cinema counts more than anything . |
| 6 | ‘ Our Socialist fatherland needs each and every one . ’ |
| 7 | He was incorrect to say that we have fewer national holidays than any other European country — the Netherlands has fewer than us . |
| 8 | It is , therefore , important to ensure that the contract contains all that it should … |
| 9 | Work out the contributions according to the normal earnings period ( for example , weekly or monthly ) , even if the first payment covers less than that period . |
| 10 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 11 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 12 | The diesel car offers more and more people the benefits of reliability , longevity and fuel economy and with the aid of a catalyst the diesel car is as environmentally ‘ sound ’ as a fully catalysed petrol car . |
| 13 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 14 | The key to our success is the recognition by users and their families that we avoid notions of coercion and forcible treatment , that psychiatric practice involves more than ensuring compliance with medication . |
| 15 | Efforts to improve the efficiency have included the introduction of disinfectants into the steam but this has proved extremely wasteful and the effect offers little that can not be achieved by cleaning with hot high pressure water jets and the separate spray application of a suitable disinfectant . |
| 16 | But Leviathan contains more than this , for political philosophy is just one part of an ambitious and systematic three-part account of the Elements of Philosophy . |
| 17 | This brief ritual has little or no religious significance . |
| 18 | The industry needs more and more MIPS to be able to programme at higher and higher levels . |
| 19 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 20 | Now Standlake has more or less , through the Council , been designated as a leisure area . |
| 21 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 22 | These results also demonstrate that the protein complex has little or no affinity for the double stranded PPT element ( WT ) as assayed by gel retardation . |
| 23 | Competition of the specific complex formed on SSB by both the double stranded WT and complementary SSA in both cases is the result of the complementary strand binding to the SSB oligonucleotide forming a double stranded oligonucleotide for which the protein has little or no affinity . |
| 24 | Membership of the United Nations has more than quadrupled since 1945 , greatly complicating international negotiations , while a fundamental conflict of interest between developed and less developed states introduced a North-South dimension to global politics . |
| 25 | From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago . |
| 26 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 27 | Total loans for house buying has more than quadrupled from about £9.1 billion to £43 billion , with the number of mortgages increasing by 62 p.c. from 6.5m to about 10m . |
| 28 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
| 29 | Browning 's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury . |
| 30 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |