Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 2 | I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was |
| 3 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 4 | However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation . |
| 5 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 6 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 7 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 8 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 9 | These account for around a fifth of live births in this group of handicaps , but due to the limited life-expectancy , they are not present in the community . |
| 10 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 11 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 12 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 13 | However , the particles in even the most opaque Cytherean clouds account for only a tiny fraction of the atmospheric volume occupied by the cloud , and therefore the cloud particles , as on the Earth , are minor atmospheric components . |
| 14 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 15 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 16 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 17 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |
| 18 | The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who , according to their label , have difficulty sustaining anything . |
| 19 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 20 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 21 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 22 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 23 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 24 | It also made for quite a wet ride as the Seayak ‘ bobbed ’ downwards . |
| 25 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 26 | Erm , I think the scheme has been delayed for quite a long , well , I mean obviously it 's important to get this scheme off the ground and when people , and I 've had lots of phone calls and discussions about this , and when people have spoken to me I said , it 's important to bear in mind two things . |
| 27 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 28 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 29 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 30 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |