Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 2 | What can be said about fluoride is that at concentrations of even less than one part per million ( the official dose ) it can cause toxic reactions in sensitive people and recent reassessments of the fluoridation scene suggest that this measure may be much more harmful to health than has been hitherto realized . |
| 3 | On the other hand there are those whose speaking vocabulary contains only a few hundred words of not more than three syllables and their reading vocabulary not many more . |
| 4 | Discussion in small groups of not more than six ( see below for discussion questions ) . |
| 5 | The headship of the amalgamated department will be assigned by the Hebdomadal Council from time to time for specified periods of not less than five years to one of the persons holding an established academic post in the department , normally with the title of professor or reader . |
| 6 | The headship of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is assigned by the Hebdomadal Council , on the recommendation of the Physical Sciences Board and of the General Board of the Faculties , for specified periods of not less than five years , to a person holding an established academic post in the department , who will usually be a professor or reader or the holder of such a title . |
| 7 | Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon manifest structures of adjacency or alterity in which exemplary texts of both past and present are invoked and implicitly questioned by being brought together and made to interact ; their semantic orientation is refracted by the context in which they are placed and their referential function remotivated . |
| 8 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 9 | review the needs of the elderly person and/or the carer at intervals of not more than twelve months , until or unless the review considers this to be unnecessary ; |
| 10 | If any such records are kept outside Great Britain , there must be sent to Great Britain ( and be available for inspection there by the officers ) records which will disclose with reasonable accuracy the position of the business in question at intervals of not more than six months and will enable the directors to ensure that the company 's balance sheet and profit and loss account comply with the Act . |
| 11 | The lower house of parliament ( House of Commons ) comprises 650 members elected directly on a constituency basis at intervals of not more than five years . |
| 12 | The lower house of parliament ( House of Commons ) comprises 650 members elected directly on a constituency basis at intervals of not more than five years . |
| 13 | The 1920 Census Act specified that population enumerations should take place at intervals of not less than five years , conducted by the Registrars General of England and Wales , of Scotland and of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | There seems to be no particular reason why the event is triennial , apart from the fact that it was thought the pole should be inspected , repaired and repainted at intervals of no longer than three years . |
| 15 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 16 | Colourful houses are on every side , with frescoes celebrating heroes of long ago and episodes that are remembered from centuries back in Swiss history . |
| 17 | What is clear , at all events , from the available studies of both earlier and more recent periods , is that economic and technological changes accomplish their political effects through the actions of specific social groups which are formed as a result of these changes . |
| 18 | Although US officials refuse to be pinned down on how long occupying troops will be needed in Panama , they talk in terms of sooner rather than later . |
| 19 | Both houses are elected by universal adult suffrage for terms of no longer than four years . |
| 20 | Both houses are elected by universal adult suffrage and for terms of no longer than four years . |
| 21 | With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place . |
| 22 | Th er there is a series of amendments in the name of the Noble Lord , Lord of Yeovil , Amendment six , seven , twelve to fourteen , sixteen , nineteen and twenty-one of which the most significant is Amendment twenty-one , these Amendments provide again that there should be flexibility in the size of police authorities and that the composition should be such as to secure a majority of local authority members of not less than three . |
| 23 | Limits of not more than 5 units ( Hazen ) have been quoted , but this means little unless it is known that the colour is not due to suspended matter . |
| 24 | These were broken up into 10,000 farms of not less than 2 hectares ( 5 acres ) . |
| 25 | Shareholders have been promised unchanged total dividends of not less than 5.25p this year . |
| 26 | a body corporate which has more than 20 members ( or is the subsidiary of a holding company which has more than 20 members ) and it , or any of its holding companies or subsidiaries has called up share capital or net assets of not less than 500,000 |
| 27 | a body corporate with fewer than 20 members and it , or any of its holding companies or subsidiaries , has share capital or net assets of not less than 5 million ; |
| 28 | an unincorporated association with net assets of not less than 5 million ; and |
| 29 | The institutions were categorised under the Act as ‘ recognised banks ’ ( which offer a wide range of banking services and have net assets of not less than £5 million ) , and ‘ licensed deposit takers ’ ( those institutions that do not meet the requirements for recognised bank status ) . |
| 30 | But those workers struggling to make ends meet on basic wages of barely more than £100 a week are likely to see things very differently . |