Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 4 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 5 | Only because of that , and what they said in that totally shocked me , because erm , I , he had n't given me any feedback about how I was doing . |
| 6 | This last possibility is one that has given me some concern over these months , and is something about which I still feel undecided . |
| 7 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 8 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
| 9 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 10 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 11 | La , like I 've done today I 've made him another jelly in it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 14 | Ai n't never seen her this way afore ! ’ . |
| 15 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 16 | You can get some books if you want but Gwyneth 's given you some money for books as well . |
| 17 | That would have given you some idea of the way I work . |
| 18 | Erm There 's quite a bit to go into with that but that 's hopefully given you some idea of how electricity works . |
| 19 | When you 're preparing what you 're going to say , use notes , and I 've given you some guidance in the handout on using notes . |
| 20 | I hope this article has given you some insight into what it 's like to be on the receiving end of your cichlid queries . |
| 21 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 22 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 23 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 24 | Have they offered you any thing at all ? ’ |
| 25 | Never once had he shown him any kind of affection . |
| 26 | It was the tone of voice , cold , edged , which had reproached her that evening at The Towers , when she had not worn the bracelet . |
| 27 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 28 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 29 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 30 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |