Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gallup Poll data showed that in these four elections , 79% or more of upper-middle-class voters and 69% or more of middle-class voters cast their votes for the Conservative party , while more than 50% of working-class and very poor voters voted for the Labour party . |
| 2 | Over the entire year outstanding credit grew just £224m , compared with more than £4bn in 1990 and £5.7bn in 1989 . |
| 3 | They concluded that people with high or borderline high ( above 200 ) cholesterol levels who reduce them will benefit more than people whose levels are within the desirable range . |
| 4 | Kanter ( 1989 ) points out that people with severe and persistent psychiatric disorders require a wide range of treatment and rehabilitation approaches , and Stroul ( 1989 ) that rehabilitation helps people to learn the social and vocational skills and acquire the supports needed for survival in the community . |
| 5 | The Law Society argues that the cuts are unlawful because they are inconsistent with the purpose of legal aid — ‘ ensuring that people of small and moderate means receive access to proper legal advice , and to justice ’ — and because there was no proper consultation before the decision to make the cuts were taken . |
| 6 | That sounds fine but in practice it means that people from black and ethnic groups get a raw deal because their particular problems are seldom acknowledged . |
| 7 | Each of the bombs is believed to have contained less than 1lb of explosive but caused panic and paralysed Central London . |
| 8 | So they were pleasantly surprised that sales of Impressionist and ‘ modern ’ art were near the top end of the houses ' estimates , even if ‘ contemporary ’ art foundered . |
| 9 | It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection . |
| 10 | The survey found prices rose by more than 18pc between 1989 and 1992 only Scotland and the North saw bigger increases . |
| 11 | The survey found prices rose by more than 18pc between 1989 and 1992 only Scotland and the North saw bigger increases . |
| 12 | As part of his early strategy to secure the co-operation of the LEAs , Jacques met the Director of Education , John Newsom , and secured agreement for an increase in grant-aid from the £35 in 1935–36 to more than £100 in 1938–39 and , in addition , the promise of a contribution by the LEA towards the District 's administrative costs in arranging courses . |
| 13 | Orders for the HP 9000 multi-user Unix systems grew more than 40% during 1992 and although revenue for the HP 3000 declined , unit shipments of these systems increased about 20% for the year — striking given the move away from proprietary systems , but then the company is opening up an enormous Open bolt hole for HP 3000 users . |
| 14 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 15 | This begins with her Tasso and diverges into immense variety : from poems ( manuscript and printed , by herself and many others ) , mementoes , statistics , portraits ( many of women writers ) , and data on Hindu and Arabic languages , to diagrams of the hold of a slave ship . |
| 16 | The Pocket Office , due to ship in quantity in the autumn , is aimed at mobile workers who need to receive , store and transmit speech and data over wired and cellular telephone lines . |
| 17 | However , more detailed scientific forecasts of trends in heroin use depend upon both a theoretical model of the spread of heroin use , and data from two or more points in time to examine projected trends in heroin use . |
| 18 | Leisure spending was projected to grow modestly to 1997 ( 1.1% in 1993 , 2.8% in 1994 , 2.4% in 1995 and 3% in 1996 and 1997 ) as people sought to pay off their debts and continued to fear for their jobs . |
| 19 | In 1985 , Norman Broadbent 's chairman and seven consultants were responsible for the completion of 143 assignments — 53% in financial services and 47% in industrial and commercial services — which , at an average of £23000 per assignment , produced a turnover of £3.3m. and a trading profit of £1m . |
| 20 | ‘ Peace , Love and United ’ T-shirts are available from Buffalo , 66 New Briggate , Leeds , HMV , 9–11 Trinity St , Leeds , and outside Leeds United football ground in Elland Road , price £8 and £13 for short- and long-sleeved T-shirts respectively |
| 21 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 22 | Even sacks with adjustable back lengths have their limits and people of above or below average height will have to shop around a little more carefully before finding the pack that 's just right for them . |
| 23 | Mrs , Hilda and people like that but erm |
| 24 | Okay , somebody suggested that the communication essay or which reflects the communication model w in the hand book it says that you 've had input from linguists , er sociologists , psychologists and people like that and in fact you have n't |
| 25 | If you you when you if you 're interested , go and have a look at your pictures by Hieronymus Bosch , interiors by people like Hieronymus Bosch and er Roger van der and people like that and you 'll find this table keeps well a table like this keeps appearing . |
| 26 | ‘ The Authority positively welcomes applicants from all sections of the community , and particularly from people with disabilities and people from Black and Asian Communities who are currently under-represented in the workforce . |
| 27 | Men and people in managerial or professional occupations preferred the policy-making aspects , while women and people in manual occupations preferred dealing with the problems of individuals . |
| 28 | The guidelines issued to the National Heritage Memorial Fund allowed it to give grants , not only for the purchase of outstanding buildings , land and works of artistic and historic interest , but also to provide endowments for major houses threatened with sale . |
| 29 | Ten percent of last year 's income had again been designated for outward giving , the sum of £1,754 going to such national charities as the Emily Fund for abused children and the Church Housing Trust , and £844 for Kurdish and Romanian victims and other overseas causes . |
| 30 | This has involved non-recurrent additions of £2m in 1991–2 , and £1.5m in 1992–3 and 1993–4 over and above its recurrent baseline of £3m . |