Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this implicitly assumes that the investor may be able to reinvest the dividend for the same return at a lower risk than the firm ( or for a higher return for the same risk ) which , given the asymmetry of information , can not be the case unless the firm itself has an inferior investment policy , in which case the investor would be advised to withdraw his or her investment from the firm completely . |
| 2 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 3 | It is quite common to insert further provisions prohibiting the offeree group from entering into contracts or commitments involving more than a stated sum or for a longer period than , say , a year , or entering into other transactions which are outside the routine course of trading without the consent of the acquirer . |
| 4 | At the top you can continue along the route described for Day 2 — a long day 's walk — or for a shorter route descend to Patterdale via Angle Tarn . |
| 5 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |
| 6 | Designed for the normal runner who wants a light responsive training shoe , or for the heavier runner who wants a shoe for running marathons , the Concorde has Reebok 's exclusive ‘ Hexalite ’ cushioning system in the heel and forefoot . |
| 7 | Whether the suit is for business , or wear the jacket as a blazer with khaki-coloured cotton trousers , or as a dressier suit , you will look and feel correct , as thousands of men have done before you . |
| 8 | Some sites possess a more co-ordinated layout , however , either as an original element or as a later addition . |
| 9 | Studies of the Quaternary by physical geographers since the 1950s have led generally in one of two directions : either towards a more process or model-based investigation or towards a greater emphasis upon chronology . |
| 10 | The ‘ cost of capital ’ may be low enough and there may be a strong demand for the type of commodity which the investment project aims at producing , but if other competing enterprises are able to supply the same commodity or a close substitute more cheaply ( or of a higher quality ) then the project will not be ‘ commercially viable . ’ |
| 11 | It is available smooth for spreading , or of a coarser texture for slicing when it may be heated before serving . |
| 12 | The therapist did not think that Tony was suffering from a psychiatric disorder , or that there was a risk of suicide , or of a further act of self-harm in the near future . |
| 13 | Perhaps I will begin by asking him to tell me what he is wearing , what his hair is like , whether his skin seems to be that of someone who is young or of an older person . |
| 14 | If so , do n't despair : it is possible to liberate yourself from this unacceptable ‘ tyranny ’ of a toddler ( as it so often is ) or of an older child . |
| 15 | When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range . |
| 16 | No trace of a fort has been located at or near the later town , and only three isolated pieces of military equipment are known . |
| 17 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 18 | In most respects , Britain spent a smaller proportion of the annual budget on welfare than did continental European countries with a system financed from contributory sources or with a greater mix of public and private provision . |
| 19 | Courses , seminars and discussions are held at intervals within an individual college or within a broader catchment in order to improve college teaching . |
| 20 | The accounts in hand would seem to favour this alternative suggestion , whether within the narrower confines of school society and the rejection of school rules , or within the wider context of acting against the laws of British society as a whole . |
| 21 | Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’ |
| 22 | You have pain either in the lower abdomen ( bladder area ) or in the lower back |
| 23 | As Hamilton points out , ‘ very little attention is paid to the conflicts of interest between groups which may relate to their structural position either in an organization or in the wider society ’ ( Hamilton 1980 , p. 49 ) . |
| 24 | Nothing that has happened in Czechoslovakia or in the wider world since that time has diminished the willingness of the Czechoslovak people to accede to this wish . |
| 25 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 26 | In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences . |
| 27 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 28 | In other words heads , governors , teachers , advisers , inspectors , researchers and evaluators ( whether these come from education or from a broader world of audit ) need to be trained to provide " the sort of information evaluatory mechanisms might provide … there is an informational feedforward and feedback need affecting all those personnel , both professional and lay , who make decisions associated with the system " ( Watson 1980 : 194 ) . |
| 29 | The referent or antecedent of an anaphor may arise from the sentence in which the anaphor occurs or from an earlier sentence in the text . |
| 30 | Professor Stewart Sutherland , vice-chancellor of the university , said that funding for the library was needed either from schools , colleges or institutes within the university or from the higher education funding council for England . |