Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , it can be shown that for a large sample of size , n , and where all the elements of the matrices and are unrestricted , the statistic : is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , once again , g is the number of restrictions on the model . |
| 2 | It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner . |
| 3 | In the months Nicholson had been involved in the writing and filming of The Trip , flower-power had reached its peak and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco had become the Mecca of hippiedom , where all the children with flowers in their hair were at ; naturally enough , this prevailing situation provided AIP with the backdrop for another psychedelic experience called Psych-Out . |
| 4 | The limbs of vertebrates can be very different — compare that of a bat with its long fingers supporting the web for flying , with the long pole-like structure of a horse 's leg , where all the digits except one seem to have disappeared . |
| 5 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 6 | The proportion of conventional medical treatment that is unproved is large : more than half the forms of care offered in pregnancy and childbirth were judged to have ‘ unknown effects which require further evaluation ’ ( 31% ) or ‘ should be abandoned in the light of available evidence ’ ( 21% ) . |
| 7 | Traditional Burmese culture centred upon the monasteries , found in every village and town , so that in the 1920s more than half the males in Burma were literate in their mother tongue ( compared to a literacy rate of 13. 9 per cent in India ) . |
| 8 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 9 | These produce higher frequencies of digestion , with more than half the teeth in their prey assemblages suffering damage ( Table 3.12 ) , but the degree of digestion is not as great as seen in the species of category 5 . |
| 10 | The poverty of the peasants and the village communes meant that in 1792 , when the situation was transformed by the irruption of the armies of revolutionary France , less than half the redemptions of feudal rights envisaged two decades earlier had been completed . |
| 11 | More than half the reactors in the Western world are at risk from this kind of problem , Greenpeace says . |
| 12 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 13 | This question is best answered by the remarks of the hon. Member for Islington , North , who courageously and clearly articulated the views of , I suspect , more than half the Members on the Opposition Benches . |
| 14 | In a Spanish fund , more than half the members of its decision-making board must be employee representatives . |
| 15 | It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located . |
| 16 | Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold . |
| 17 | Possibly more than half the soils in the semi-arid regions are subject to severe erosion . |
| 18 | Progress in further education has been rapid , to the extent that a 1985 national survey undertaken by the National Bureau for Handicapped Students for the DES , and published as Catching Up ? , showed that more than half the colleges in England ran special courses for 16 to 19 year olds with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 19 | By 1180 , more than half the bishops of France were again royal fideles , with the consequence that they sought royal justice against their local oppressors . |
| 20 | Yet less than half the women with a high specification are satisfied with work . |
| 21 | It is very common — more than half the women in this country suffer from cystitis at some point in their lives . |
| 22 | It is very common — more than half the women in this country suffer from cystitis at some point in their lives . |
| 23 | For protection against bad debts , less than half the firms in the survey operated the sales ledger on secured terms and nearly two-thirds did not use credit insurance . |
| 24 | Fewer than half the responses from each group contained deductive markers , and in the open-ended task fewer than half the responses in each group contained causal connectives . |
| 25 | Fewer than half the responses from each group contained deductive markers , and in the open-ended task fewer than half the responses in each group contained causal connectives . |
| 26 | Since more than half the states at present existing are less than 40 years old , this seriously limits the incidence of the traditional ‘ principle of nationality ’ . |
| 27 | By the mid-Fifties more than half the girls at American universities were dropping out of college in order to marry and help their husbands to get through . |
| 28 | No fewer than half the yeomen in Rutland owned arms and armour ; eleven had a ‘ whole harness for a man ’ , while six had two or more outfits . |
| 29 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 30 | With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot . |