Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 2 | According to the ‘ Central Banking Directory ’ , which is published annually by Central Banking , a journal based in London , the number of central banks has jumped from 151 in 1990 to 166 in late 1992 — a larger increase than in the whole of the 1980s . |
| 3 | Main picture ( clockwise from top left ) Arthur Robb , who has crafted between 60 and 70 lutes , with a mid-Renaissance , seven-course ( 13-stringed ) instrument ; Arthur restored guitars up to 200 years old ; in a tradition dating back five centuries , the rose motif is carved from the soundboard with a single , sharp knife ; strips of yew and sycamore will form the lute ribs . |
| 4 | Pupils excluded indefinitely ( usually for not more than 15 days ) has trebled since 1989 . |
| 5 | The number employed in making things has plunged from 7.1 million in 1979 to 4.6 million . |
| 6 | Chris Berry has received from one of this customers a black cake with white icing , black roses and the inscription ‘ Stuff the bank ’ . |
| 7 | Pegwell Bay , who will be ridden by Carl Llewellyn , has also attracted support and is 6-1 from 7-1 , while in the face of this Desert Orchid has eased from 8-15 to 8-13 . |
| 8 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 9 | LEE KONITZ Over the years , Konitz has developed into one of the most fluent and intelligent of contemporary improvisers , his light yet husky alto sound the perfect vehicle for his incisive lines . |
| 10 | The Alliss match was one of the highlights of an occasion which , since it started in 1985 , has developed into one of the finest events on the golfing calendar . |
| 11 | It has developed in two ways . |
| 12 | Conoca said : ‘ A leak has developed inside one well of the unmanned platform and gas is leaking up to the surface . |
| 13 | Most serious of all , the centre 's backbone — the directors of various state-owned enterprises — has broken in two . |
| 14 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 15 | A wide runner , he loves the striped jacket ( t6 ) but this time has to go from three . |
| 16 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |
| 17 | In answering this question , one has to contend with two muddles in English law , a general muddle about mental disorder and criminal responsibility , and a specific muddle about murder and manslaughter . |
| 18 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 19 | STEVEN has followed the rise of the drug in the North East since it became part of the club scene in 1989 he says its popularity has soared since 1991 . |
| 20 | Since the US Navy pulled out a year ago , Dunoon and Cowal has suffered a £10 million drop in its economy and unemployment has soared to 18 per cent . |
| 21 | Since 1988 the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 22 | Since 1988 , the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 23 | Once the killer has stumbled upon one cryptic individual , it quickly develops a ‘ searching image ’ and then finds others more easily . |
| 24 | Difficult though it is to evaluate , the evidence of the receptivity to the portrayal of Hitler 's image which we have examined has pointed to seven significant bases of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ . |
| 25 | In modern times Sir Isaiah Berlin has distinguished between two ‘ kinds of freedom ’ , freedom from something and freedom to do something . |
| 26 | Although the number of cases of infectious syphilis seen in genitourinary medicine clinics has fallen since 1981 , the rate of fall slowed in 1988 ( fig 1 ( bottom ) ) . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman will be delighted to know that unemployment in the Holloway area has fallen since 1987 . |
| 28 | Table 15–2 shows that lead emission from petrol-engined vehicles has fallen since 1973 even though total consumption of petrol has risen by 20 per cent . |
| 29 | First , like other families , the value of their child benefit has fallen since 1984 . |
| 30 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |