Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PIMS study explains this as due to economies of scale , experience effects and bargaining power . |
| 2 | In each village and manor local men filled such offices as bailiff , and the holders of these positions were presumably the more articulate members of the community — inglorious the peasants may have been , but there is no need to regard this as synonymous with mute . |
| 3 | It is accepted as such because those in positions of authority use their power to pursue collective goals which derive from society 's central values . |
| 4 | Again , however , the problem is a matter of style as much as one of substance . |
| 5 | Analyses showed that water contained eight parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen ; on Dalton 's assumption , then , the atom of oxygen weighs eight times as much as that of hydrogen , while on the H 2 O formula favoured by Davy and by us it weighs sixteen times as much . |
| 6 | The very existence of the idea of art , as much as that of language itself , distinguishes man from other animals . |
| 7 | However , although topologically equivalent , the core strands for CD2 and CD4 can not be precisely superimposed ( the r.m.s. deviation of 1.7 for 58 equivalenced C α atoms being twice as much as that between domain 1 cores ; see Fig.4 ) . |
| 8 | The purpose of this section was to discover as much as possible about trends in staffing and recruitment , the internal policies of institutions on Language in Education , and a little about the attitudes of tutors in this area towards their field . |
| 9 | The placement might involve " shadowing " a manager , or following a programme of meetings and activities in order to learn as much as possible about business processes . |
| 10 | Break up the text as much as possible into topics , sub-topics and conclusions — or some such skeletal division of your own using key " words ( which are discussed below ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd put in as much as I could and got out as much as possible at YPN . |
| 12 | Most of the time they shunned real paperwork , preferring to keep as much as possible on computer , yet whenever the big guns arrived out would come thick stacks of paper . |
| 13 | Lucy had to stay in bed as much as possible on doctor 's orders , Dad was spending more and more time on the golf course and in the pub to escape from what he called the ‘ pressures ’ , and Charles was in an increasingly pessimistic mood about the future of Chester 's . |
| 14 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
| 15 | The selection held at the moment by reception is limited to syllabus books , but putting out as much as possible on display would be beneficial . |
| 16 | It is not surprising then , that in the inter-war period , the principal aim of Hungarian foreign policy was to recover as much as possible of Hungaria irridenta . |
| 17 | As much as possible of guidance |
| 18 | The second year business and finance diploma course students at Cleveland College in Redcar are in competition to raise as much as possible for South Cleveland Hospital 's baby unit . |
| 19 | Use only the active voice for procedures and employ it as much as possible for descriptions and operations . |
| 20 | She describes its production , saying ‘ I saw the Queen at Sandringham with her dogs , which were painted as much as possible from life . |
| 21 | I wanted to keep her warm and handle her as much as possible in preparation for training . |
| 22 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 23 | The dual design had been influenced greatly by the negative British attitude , with the pro-Europeans reluctantly compromising as much as possible in order to ensure British membership . |
| 24 | These observations usefully demonstrate the hazards of working with fewer than 10 tokens ; the ideal appears to be around 30 , but if this can not be attained a figure as much as possible in excess of 10 is a sensible goal . |
| 25 | The Taylors wanted to include Laura as much as possible in constituency life , primarily so that she would not miss out on time with John . |
| 26 | It had little to do with science in society , and writers Lawrence Moore and Robert Young seemed slightly self-conscious about this , using the words ‘ science ’ and ‘ technology ’ as much as possible in relation to management , roller coasters et al to compensate . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is estimated that as much as one-third of Alexandria 's population in the first century was Jewish . |
| 28 | Britain 's alders , which make up as much as one-third of river bank , lakeside and wetland tree cover , may be threatened with extinction by a mystery disease . |
| 29 | Not only does it help the condition of the skin itself by removing the build-up of dead skin cells on the surface , it stimulates lymphatic drainage and the elimination of as much as one-third of body wastes . |
| 30 | They have been particularly successful within the Pacific-rim economies , and perhaps as much as one-fifth of world trade went through them by the mid-1980s . |