Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has plans now to buy a property in Venice : ‘ I love the palce so much : a five-room apartment there costs about the same as studio flat in Tufnell Park . ’ |
| 2 | The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry . |
| 3 | The subsection creates an obligation to consult the judiciary , not to be governed by their opinion , which amounts to no more than advice . |
| 4 | This " combination " which effectively amounts to no more than the adjective itself is then linked by explicit assignment to the entity of the subject . |
| 5 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 6 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 7 | And the bill he , that he gets at the same as the time as the delivery , and what 's normal credit conditions ? |
| 8 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 9 | In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors . |
| 10 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 11 | Causation and other nomicity consists in no less than , and not greatly more than , a web of connections between things or events , at bottom individual properties . |
| 12 | SPRING ushers in a less than joyful seasonal event for local authority officers . |
| 13 | All the more remarkable , then , that Honda should this year have upstaged its European class competitors by introducing standard-fit driver 's side airbags to no fewer than 13 models of its range , beginning with the £11,750 Civic VEi . |
| 14 | K-9 ( 12 ) , which stars James Belushi , hints at the less than glittering screen career that might have awaited his elder brother , had he lived . |
| 15 | The whole setup weighs about the same as a small combo , but is easier to carry because there 's less bulk . |
| 16 | The depopulation and lack of facilities in rural areas indicates to a few that industrial expansion is detrimental to country life . |
| 17 | The SEA focuses on the former and has made two contributions . |
| 18 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 19 | And four sixths comes to the same as two thirds . |