Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're each worth a hundred pounds . |
| 2 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 3 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 4 | And to hide the microphone under a table or behind a curtain , while guaranteeing the naturalness of the content , does little for the acoustic quality — and of course raises an issue that President Nixon memorably pioneered . |
| 5 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 6 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 7 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 8 | Nigel was determined to have none of that during the next Parliament . |
| 9 | Proof of republican involvement in NICRA prior to 5 October 1968 actually says very little about the civil rights movement . |
| 10 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 11 | In the production or processing of discourse with a low degree of reciprocity ( for example , a manual , a road sign , a circular letter ) we can say very little about the individual identity of the person or persons in communication with us ; their name , gender , age , personality , appearance , and so on . |
| 12 | The typical end-user of GIS output will probably care or know little about the cartographic and uncertainty characteristics of the map data being used , while the GIS itself has no procedures for handling the varying accuracy and reliability of the digital map data being processed . |
| 13 | The Labour Party has done precious little about the political education of its members ’ . |
| 14 | However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused . |
| 15 | Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops . |
| 16 | We know too little about the internal social relations of some of the earliest collective and collaborative forms to speak with any certainty of that stage . |
| 17 | Last year the workshop session that followed Mr Barker 's presentation revealed that most publishers appeared to know very little about the financial realities of retailing . |
| 18 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 19 | The difficulty here is that central planning may know very little about the actual way of working of the different departments , so a theoretically superior plan may be impracticable . |
| 20 | Leeson , by nature taciturn , had told her very little about the original photograph and nothing at all about the research he and the Bristol archivist had done on it . |
| 21 | Police still know precious little about the dead man , least of all why anyone should want to kill him . |
| 22 | First , the approach says very little about the precise actors involved in the growth of government . |
| 23 | If you do that through the cheapest method which is the stand alone system it wo n't pull that off . |
| 24 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 25 | A smaller , more senior group of 150–200 top executives paid £1,750 each for a two-day seminar in Germany last year . |
| 26 | The shares were sold at $6.75 each for a total investment of $3.4m ; investors advised by Crabbe Huson own 2m shares , about 6.6% . |
| 27 | In 1989 passengers undertaking the full journey from London to Venice paid a one-way fare of £745 each for a double cabin with all meals included but drinks extra . |
| 28 | The quest of holists and of individualists , each for a particular type of explanation , marks the social sciences in two ways , one aggressive , one repressive . |
| 29 | The G17 ( Gastrin I Human ; Sigma , Poole , Dorset , UK ) made up in 0.15M saline containing 1% albumin was infused continuously by an infusion pump ( Vickers Medical , Basingstoke , Hants , UK ) at doses of 0 , 11 , 33 , 100 , and 300 pmol/kg/h , each for a 30 minute period . |
| 30 | The rights issue is being offered to investors on the basis of two new shares at 12p each for every five held . |