Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Frederick Herzberg ( 1968 ) put forward the two-factor approach to motivation after an extensive study of job attitudes among engineers and accountants .
2 The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates .
3 In climatology the system has been adopted as providing a suitable framework and appears as the introductory foundation for Causes of Climate ( Lockwood , 1979a ) , where it is argued that the application of systems theory and mathematics has completely changed the subject of climatology .
4 After some confusion over the numbering scheme , US sources say HP is preparing to debut a low-end with a box that will best the introductory price of Sun Microsystems Inc 's new Sunergy Classic by $10 .
5 Hobbes first describes this , in the introductory part of De Corpore , as a part of ‘ indefinite ’ science , the working out of a theoretical structure in terms of which particular ‘ limited ’ questions are answered .
6 After the introductory chapter on scepticism , the first part contains a chapter on the nature of knowledge and its relation to true justified belief , and another concentrating on one particular theory .
7 Most appropriately , the introductory chapter on distribution and evolution is an up-to-date review by that eminent physical anthropologist G. H. R. von Koenigswald .
8 Oblique-slip margins are considered in detail in various papers in Ballance and Reading ( 1980 ) ; the introductory article by Reading ( 1980 ) is particularly useful as it presents a general review of sedimentation patterns in relation to topography .
9 In a biology text , one might expect that a section about mammals would have subsections about particular mammals , and the organization of those subsections would reflect that of the introductory section about mammals .
10 Helen Cooper notes that the inferrable character of the Nun 's Priest is the same as the inferrable character of Chaucer .
11 … being the inside story of China 's Cultural Revolution
12 A STRANGE silence from the Government — the people who brought you the Spycatcher saga — as a book goes into print , giving the inside story of security activities and assorted hanky-panky in Northern Ireland .
13 " Good " dealers will derive motivation from the frowns of the establishment , the black looks of the wary and the total disinterest of 90% of the population .
14 Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ?
15 Improving village schooling may , however , have done no more than keep the total proportion of Kent 's children receiving schooling constant , for there is also evidence of a deteriorating situation in some of the towns .
16 Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older .
17 The most important concept of Islam is the Shari'a , or the ‘ path ’ , which embraces the total way of life ordained by God .
18 Everyone to Oxfam , Christ the total income of Oxfam , Christian Aid , Save the Children , CAFOD , was the same as what we spent on one product .
19 The total income for TOPS in that year , in contributions from the company and the members , as well as transfers of pension rights from other schemes was £13,426,000 .
20 The total income from tourism would then equal our present income from North Sea Oil — heralded in the past as a saviour and bonanza .
21 With the fees for shooting hill stags currently averaging £200 to £250 , the total income from commercial lets is £1.5–£2 million .
22 However the total income from rent was a gross £36 6 0d : from that had to be deducted a quit rent of 13s 4d to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital , leaving 18 12 8d ( after the other deductions ) to be appropriated by the Company .
23 Thus , the enrichment of the total mixture of amino acids will be dependant on variations in the concentration of glycine , making the procedure unreliable .
24 In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent .
25 A 3p final dividend sees the total jump from 7.8p to 12p , payable from earnings per share up from 24.1p to 36.9p .
26 In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor .
27 We looked at the total incidence of gonorrhoea ; the number of cases of gonorrhoea found in men overall and in homosexual men ; the male to female ratio of cases of gonorrhoea ; and the number of new cases of HIV infection diagnosed in homosexual men ( table ) .
28 Homi Bhabha finds that Fanon most profoundly evokes the colonial condition not in his yearning for ‘ the total transformation of Man and Society ’ , nor in his appeal to the human essence ( though ‘ he lapses into such a lament in his more existential moment ’ ) , but in his understanding of the workings of ‘ image and fantasy — those orders that figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , p. xiii ) .
29 In Germany the total return to capital is shown by areas 9 + 10 , and areas 6 + 7 + 8 are the payments to labour .
30 We can work out the total increase in income by recalling that the slope of the withdrawals line is equal to the sum of the marginal propensities to save and import ( given that , in this model , the marginal propensity to tax is zero ) .
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