Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only natural that we should interpret all this as preparation for release , that we would go home looking fit and not too pale . |
| 2 | For one of the road signs they used , as few as 17% of drivers were able to correctly answer at least one of the two questions . |
| 3 | Investigations — fundoscopy , serum potassium , and chest radiography — varied substantially , up to one quarter of physicians rounded the blood pressure reading up to 10 mm Hg , and although risk factor intervention was said to be important , cholesterol measurement was done by as few as 27% of clinicians . |
| 4 | Probably as few as 10% of patients are suitable for bile acid therapy , 10–25% for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy combined with adjuvant bile acid therapy and 20% for contact dissolution with methyl tert-butyl ether . |
| 5 | While the relative share of employment and social security benefits varied enormously from one country to another as sources of income for lone parents , maintenance payments generally contributed little to the income of lone parents , even if widows are excluded . |
| 6 | Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot . |
| 7 | However , it is difficult to believe that this amounts to as much as £30 per hour . |
| 8 | As much as 50% of Russians with higher education were arrested and the proportion of well educated party members was greater than that . |
| 9 | But North 's memoranda were also aspirations , plans , dreams and imaginings , as much as schedules of facts . |
| 10 | It varies with the product — reaching as much as 85% on spirits . |
| 11 | The exchange , the CFTC said , had failed to notify the agency of serious deficiencies in Stotler 's financial records as early as 1987 , failed to enforce its own capital requirements , and failed to tell the CFTC that Stotler was undercapitalised by as much as $1.1m between October 1989 and April 1990 . |
| 12 | With skill and imagination it may not be necessary to devote as much as 5% of CCW 's budget in order to make significant progress . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co has extended its HP 9000 Series 1200 line of fault-tolerant Unix systems sourced from Sequoia Systems Inc downwards with the launch of the entry-level HP 9000 Model 1210 , claiming that it substantially outperforms fault-tolerant offerings from Tandem Computers Inc , Stratus Computer Inc and Digital Equipment Corp by as much as 100% in transaction processing work . |
| 14 | A famous American study indicated that as much as 28% of Medicare expenditure was spent on those in the last year of life . |
| 15 | The total value of Aaron 's estate on his death is unknown , but it may have amounted to as much as £100,000 in cash , treasure , and bonds . |
| 16 | Like the majority of d-i-y models , it has an 82mm planing width , and a maximum cutting depth of 0.5mm. larger capacity machines which take off as much as 3mm per pass are more expensive , and are only really worth the money if you are a professional . |
| 17 | In Taiwan , rhino horn can sell for as much as $60,000 per kilo . |
| 18 | Probably he was including bastardy and settlement cases , at least as much as complaints against overseers . |
| 19 | Compare brochures and shop around on price — many agents discount as much as £200-£300 on brochure prices . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was the quality of the latter revenue department , as much as opposition to income taxation in principle , which had inclined eighteenth-century governments towards using indirect taxes on consumption alongside the traditional land tax . |
| 21 | They may contribute as much as 70% of biomass and productivity locally ( El-Sayed and Taguchi , 1981 ; Yamaguchi and Shibata 1982 ) . |
| 22 | The capital charges typically incurred by the Boards on new domestic connections were as much as £1 per quarter , while many consumers ( especially new ones ) paid little more than this ( and thus insufficient to cover the additional costs of supplying current ) in the early years . |
| 23 | It is estimated that as much as 98% of dioxin intake by humans comes to us through the food chain , notably meat , milk , fish and eggs . |
| 24 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 25 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 26 | Some well-respected names in fishing reckon they have seen barbel bigger than this , as much as 20lb in fact . |
| 27 | It is generally worth having as much as 150mm of insulation in most homes , although the comparatively shallow depth of most ceiling joists means that you may have to lay the insulation across the tops of the joists to achieve the required thickness . |
| 28 | After a series of share transactions following a failed investment of £305,000 in the ‘ News on Sunday ’ newspaper , Oyston benefited on paper by as much as £1m. from investments by Derbyshire 's pension fund . |
| 29 | And you 'll save money on every book you buy — never less than 20% , often as much as 40% off publishers ' prices . |
| 30 | The dam holds back as much as 40% of water in a cistern , while maintaining the force required for an effective flush . |