Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , it will be evident from the figures that sole practitioners account for a disproportionate percentage of the responses in relation to the percentage of firms in private practice as a whole which they constitute ( 63% and 37% respectively ) . |
| 32 | In the present generations of younger women , very few never marry so this particular source of family care has almost dried up , although there is evidence that never-married women still account for a disproportionate number of unpaid carers ( Finch and Groves , 1980 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |
| 33 | Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure . |
| 34 | As EMS currencies are pegged to each other and account for a big part of each other 's baskets , the stability of the trade-weighted values of the French franc and the D-mark compared with the dollar and the yen is no surprise . |
| 35 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 36 | Official documents account for a large proportion of the primary sources . |
| 37 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |
| 38 | Since elderly patients account for a large proportion of the increased prescribing seen in the past decade , any comparisons between data should take account of the age profile of practice populations . |
| 39 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 40 | Right , I mean the exceptions to , to the sort of , that general sort of rule of thumb are enterprises where variable costs account for a large proportion of total costs , things like egg production , pig production , they tend to be very short run supply elasticities tend to be very high in those type of enterprises , primarily because most of the costs , alright , are tied up in , in variable costs . |
| 41 | Non-ferrous metals account for a large part of our overseas expenditure on raw materials . |
| 42 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 43 | It is beyond dispute that they also account for a large number of tiny rabbits that are born in breeding chambers within burrow systems . |
| 44 | The latest published figures on the origins of TB infection in confirmed herd breakdowns in Great Britain show that south-west England has a much higher incidence of breakdowns and badgers account for a high proportion of them . |
| 45 | However , the bulk of LDCs have neither oil resources to export nor a diversified manufacturing base , and it is these countries that account for a high proportion of the world 's poor . |
| 46 | It is noteworthy that major word classes ( " content words " ) account for a high percentage of the total number of words ( 58 per cent , as compared with 52 per cent in the Conrad passage , and 47 per cent in the James passage ) . |
| 47 | She has already suffered more than most adults suffer during a long lifetime . |
| 48 | Sit for a relaxing drink in its comfortable bar and you look out through picture windows which frame gondolas alive with colour and Venetian style . |
| 49 | And we need a political voice to do that , President a political voice and influence through a Labour Party that 's committed to strive for our goals by working with us and through us and we 're not ashamed of our links with the Labour Party . |
| 50 | His political goals were quite contrasting — Weber had no objection to seeing his native Germany develop as a capitalist state overseen by a parliament . |
| 51 | What does ego mean as a technical term in Freud 's second model of the mind ? |
| 52 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 53 | The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable . |
| 54 | Choose 7/8in mats where workers remain for a full shift ; 1/2in mats at work stations used for hours at a time ; 3/8in mats in traffic areas . |
| 55 | The second is ‘ Welcome the Asian Games ’ , the international event scheduled long ago for September 1990 which the authorities both welcome as an opportunity to demonstrate normality and fear as a possible platform for dissident protest . |
| 56 | The cast list printed in the wordbook , however , specifies a Grand Dance not of 24 persons but of ‘ 24 Chineses ’ ; while in the manuscript score , copied separately at the reverse end of the book , is the big movement — the longest instrumental number in the entire show — headed ‘ Chaconne : Dance for a Chinese man and woman ’ . |
| 57 | NCR Corp 's Hauppauge , New York-based subsidiary Applied Digital Data Systems Inc has signed a co-marketing agreement with Structured Software Solutions Inc for ADDS to distribute the latter 's FacetTerm Window and session manager software with ADDS ' AlphaWindow and character terminals , making ADDS the only terminal manufacturer to offer windowing systems on both character and AlphaWindow terminals ; to encourage evaluations , value-added resellers can currently buy a single AlphaWindow terminal and FacetTerm for a reduced price of $350 . |
| 58 | Stimulating because new ideas , creativity , brain-storming sessions and the prospects of winning make for a great feeling of esprit de corps . |
| 59 | Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too ! |
| 60 | Remnants of Wales ' rich industrial past make for a fascinating walk in the Sirhowy Valley . |