Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As far as I can discover from replies received or from the 1959 College Register the rest of us , either from choice or to fulfil the conditions of grants or the needs of wartime , became teachers , the length of our service varying accordingly . |
2 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
3 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
4 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
5 | The supplementary note disclosed that over the past six years £298m goodwill arising on acquisitions has been written off to reserve . |
6 | The survey disclosed that in a three-week period , 309 vessels had passed through the firth and that 94 had refused to identify themselves . |
7 | 24 the government disclosed that in the Tibesti region of northern Chad 49 people had been killed in various attacks on civilians since mid-August by forces loyal to former President Hissène Habré . |
8 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
9 | Regarding the management structures you have supplied , I suggest that for the smaller unitary authorities a second Assistant Director should be inserted in the proposed Planning Department structures . |
10 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
11 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
12 | Wishart and Virden ( 1977 ) also suggest that in the twentieth century a fundamental opposition between ‘ literate ’ music styles ( from concert music to Tin Pan Alley songs ) and ‘ oral ’ styles ( quintessentially Afro-American musics , but also popular styles derived from these ) is associated with the opposition between those who dominate and control the social system and those who are its victims . |
13 | Estimates suggest that in the European Community as a whole , at least 10% of families with children are lone parent families ( Roll , 1989 ) . |
14 | Government policy and commercial development thus came together to make the Tokugawa period an era of rapid urbanization ; estimates suggest that in the early 1800s around 15 per cent of the population could be considered as dwelling in urban areas . |
15 | If such research is indicative of UK research effort in geology as a whole , then the figures suggest that in the early 1970's , the numbers of students entering the field increased substantially . |
16 | If such research is indicative of UK research effort in geology as a whole , then the figures suggest that in the early 1970's , the numbers of students entering the field increased substantially , whilst at the same time , the universities were able and willing to support such an increase . |
17 | Similarly , estimates based on parish records suggest that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on average about 19 per cent of all families with children were lone-parent families ( Snell and Millar , 1987 ) . |
18 | These findings suggest that in the gastric mucosa free radicals or lipid peroxides are injurious offensive factors and GSH is a protecting defensive factor . |
19 | Our data suggest that in the quadruple vector the p10 promoter probably makes transcripts that over-run and down-regulate the downstream ph promoter products . |
20 | More detached observers suggest that in the next century historians may see Mrs Thatcher as a figure having no more long-term significance than Wilson , Heath , or Callaghan . |
21 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
22 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
23 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
24 | Did you know that in the Soviet cities every citizen has been provided with a gas mask ? ’ |
25 | Those who take it ( and those who do n't miss a treat ) will know that in the best possible sense it is conservative . |
26 | The hon. Lady should know that in the past 10 years exports of British manufactured goods have grown faster than those of France , Germany , America and even Japan , because manufacturing is doing so much better and needs our policies . |
27 | Many of you will know that in the eighteenth century , Buffon had defined literary style as the order and movement which we impose on our thoughts . |
28 | The hon. Gentleman will know that in the last year we have also cut interest rates seven times and halved inflation . |
29 | Do you know that in the last twelve months er we 've produced or the office has produced , twelve hundred twelve hundred reports to committees at an average cost of six hundred pounds each and that 's just in officer time in writing them , nothing to do with the paper they were printed on , the cost of printing , the cost of distribution , the cost of our time to discuss them and our attendance allowance . |
30 | ‘ We 'll know that by the new year , ’ John said . |