Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the total [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICC is the income consumption curve , and it is clear that the total provision of the good will increase as the local authority receives the grant . |
| 2 | From documents that I have been sent by the senior chief inspector it is clear that the total number of inspectors will be used as follows : 11 will conduct high-profile surveys and focus inspections , six will inspect schools at risk and another 26 will undertake inspections to supplement database evidence . |
| 3 | The difference between this and the total hardness then gives the magnesium content . |
| 4 | Unemployment reached a peak of just under three million in January 1933 and the total number of unemployed did not fall below one million until the outbreak of war . |
| 5 | Outside these harbours it is doubtful if the total winter population exceeds 200 birds , but up to 70 winter at Newhaven and between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 6 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 7 | A laser ( without injected signal ) necessarily operates at a frequency such that the total mistuning ( 8 plus any phase shift due to the medium ) is equal to zero ( modulo 2n ) . |
| 8 | By then he was already active as an architect and his subsequent practice , mainly in the midlands but also on occasion further afield , developed immediately ; but his career was cut short by his early death at the age of forty-eight and the total number of his executed works was not large . |
| 9 | From the information available it seems likely that the total winter population of the county now rarely exceeds 4,000 birds . |
| 10 | Boulding ( 1968 ) has identified the crisis of science as arising from the fact that communication among disciplines and subdisciplines is increasingly difficult so that the greater the fragmentation into subgroups the more likely that the total growth of knowledge may be inhibited . |
| 11 | Yet in 1992 the SSC 's magnet bill was as large as the total government research and development budget for the newer technology of high-temperature superconductors . |
| 12 | By the end of 1986 building society shares and deposits were almost as large as the total sterling deposits of the retail banks and if we confine our attention to deposits of the personal sector alone , then personal sector building society deposits outnumber personal sector ‘ bank ’ deposits by almost 2 : 1 , and have been increasing much more rapidly . |
| 13 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 14 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | In this form the mixture exhibits a property known as synergism whereby the performance is better than the total effect of each working alone . |
| 17 | ‘ We concluded the two most significant North Sea deals of 1992 and the total value of our disposals accounted for nearly half of all North Sea transactions in the last year . ’ |
| 18 | In Cologne , acquisitions by museums are nearly non-existent because the total budget for all [ ten ] museums is only DM500,000 ( £178,500 ; $310,700 ) . |
| 19 | For complexes of heavy transition elements , however , spin-orbit coupling may lead to a relaxation of this rule , which only holds as long as the total spin quantum number S has physical meaning , and so spin-forbidden bands may be found to have reasonable intensity . |
| 20 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 21 | The world still spends more than $1,000 billion per year on arms — more than the total income of one half of the world 's population . |
| 22 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 23 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 24 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 25 | If overall losses are estimated at 1000 kg per ha per year , then the 20–25 million ha under shifting cultivation or permanent conversion from forest to other uses , generate more than the total nitrogen delivered by rivers to the oceans . |
| 26 | After joining the lining widths , trim the sides so that the total width is 10 cm ( 4 in ) less than the total width of valance . |
| 27 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 28 | By the end of Elizabeth 's reign its population had risen to 11,500 , and though this was 2,500 less than the total number of inhabitants 200 years earlier , York had climbed back from sixth to third position amongst England 's provincial cities . |
| 29 | This means that in a situation where saving exceeds investment , so that aggregate demand is less than the total value of production , firms will reduce output and lay off workers . |
| 30 | Clearly , such resources will always be less than the total need for management development , so hard decisions about selective investment will continue to be required . |