Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After all , ’ she added as he looked back at her impassively , ‘ it accounts for only a fraction of your business interests . |
| 32 | Industry experts say this booming cottage industry now accounts for about a quarter of the X-rated video market . |
| 33 | Each information unit consists of either a combination of given-plus-new elements or of just a new element . |
| 34 | It seemed to withstand the onslaught of bicycles , tricycles and roller skates with scarcely a scratch to show . |
| 35 | He goes on : ‘ And by using an estate agent you 're dealing with a dedicated property specialist , a description which applies to only a handful of solicitors . ’ |
| 36 | And there 's the added advantage that by using an estate agent you 're dealing with a dedicated property specialist , a description which applies to only a handful of solicitors . |
| 37 | A research design ( or strategy ) refers to how a piece of research is planned and carried out . |
| 38 | If you 're travelling at two hundred miles an hour and your mind wanders for even a fraction of a second , it can be fatal . |
| 39 | As a rule , he uses a pair of Marshall tops/cabs with either a Chandler Tube Driver or an Ibanez Tube Screamer , and a Cry Baby wah-wah used mostly for tonal coloration . |
| 40 | Then one of the four buys the stakes of the other three : suddenly , that single investor emerges with almost a fifthof a quoted company ; the stake — a high platform for any a potential bidder — has been built far more cheaply than if one person had bought alone . |
| 41 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 42 | A skill description relates to how a task is performed and what is achieved rather than what actions are taken . |
| 43 | The presidential election campaign lasts for nearly a year ; with all the preplanning , advance publicity , and fund raising it lasts for much longer . |
| 44 | Either tactic offers at least a chance of keeping trouble to the minimum . |
| 45 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 46 | Any mention of radiocarbon dating necessarily involves at least a reference to dendrochronology , and the basic principles of this powerful technique are therefore also outlined ( see p.125 ) . |
| 47 | So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day . |
| 48 | The path continues for around a mile to the Bloody Bush pillar — named after a dispute over where exactly the border ran . |
| 49 | Chapter 5 ( " Word Play in Action " ) promises at least a look at the socio-linguistic context of jokes , with particular emphasis on , and analysis of , real joke-capping sessions ; and Chiaro is to be commended for tackling an interesting aspect of joke-telling , in relation to discourse analysis , that has generally been neglected in book-length studies . |
| 50 | Now it reports in here a survey carried out in The Doctor , September the twenty sixth , and it was asking there who they actually supported in terms of the National Health Service changes , and you may be surprised to hear who in fact came out on top of that . |
| 51 | He comes in here a lot . ’ |
| 52 | This comes in quite a lot . |
| 53 | Psychoanalysis provides at least a language for talking about these matters , and contains useful speculative hypotheses . |
| 54 | The there 's five organizations which Justice and Peace comes across quite a lot . |