Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC superstores account for nearly a quarter of the total market in the US , and they 're beginning to make inroads into the UK market as well with the likes of PC World and the Business Superstore . |
| 2 | Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in New York . |
| 3 | New York , New York : Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in the city |
| 4 | Specific grants have increased in importance since 1974 and now account for approximately a quarter of current grants ( excluding the housing benefit scheme ) from central government to local authorities . |
| 5 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 6 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 7 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 8 | The concept of entities that appear for only an instant and then disappear was used by Buddhists to prove that all is merely appearance and that absolute reality does not fall within the domain of the intellect . |
| 9 | Pull-down menus and point-and-click icons ensure that you can get to where you want to in a hurry and the unique help icon means there 's always help at hand . |
| 10 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 11 | How do you adhere to the HN Unit Specification and yet provide at least a context which makes it fully your own college 's HNC/D . |
| 12 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 13 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 14 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 15 | • hold at least a Master 's degree or equivalent |
| 16 | Candidates must be members of the RSC , hold at least a masters or PhD degree in chemistry or a related subject and already be actively engaged in research . |
| 17 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 18 | One , one might be that for people who are on a fairly low income or on benefits , the home-loss compensation which the council was offering did i would in fact seem like quite a lot of money erm and for any tenants who were n't in arrears , then they would receive the full amount . |
| 19 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 20 | Just hang in there a second or two . ’ |
| 21 | In this seminar , we look at how a company can put together a cost effective security strategy , that takes into account the weaknesses of the various system components , including the users . |
| 22 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 23 | Residential homes and hospitals cater for only a minority of dementia sufferers and this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future . |
| 24 | 100 students , cater for only a quarter . |
| 25 | In the United States , parties are usually shorter and last for about an hour and a half . |
| 26 | ‘ We drive for about an hour . |
| 27 | The younger animals sometimes have trouble navigating ( nor surprising , if you 're walking backwards and your own rather large bottom is blocking your view ) , and frequently get into quite a pickle , backing into fences , down ledges or into trees ! |
| 28 | Instead they refer to only a sub-section of these behaviours , a sub-section which is more likely to be committed by young , poorly-educated males who are often unemployed , live in working-class impoverished neighbourhoods , and frequently belong to an ethnic minority . |
| 29 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
| 30 | Similarly , poster campaigns usually last at least a month , and frequently three . |