Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said .
2 It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes .
3 Allowing for parliamentary recesses , that adds up to between forty and forty-five Cabinet meetings a year — not a particularly significant statistic if more business is being taken in committees , of which more in a moment .
4 For a family of four , this adds up to about 600 ltr of water in a year .
5 That adds up to over two weeks a year , or two years of your life .
6 That adds up to over 50 million a year , half of which are performed illegally .
7 That goes up to about sixteen Ooh we 'll just fit twenty on .
8 If if you add on the Greater York requirement of thirty hectares it goes up to about ninety five hectares .
9 On average this is about 33 per cent , although it ranges up to about 60 per cent in the case of Italy , and is over 40 per cent for Britain , France and the United States .
10 At approximately 30 K above the glass transition the modulus curve begins to flatten out into the plateau region C to D in the modulus interval 10 5 .7 ; to and extends up to about 420 K.
11 And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself .
12 WHAT T&S Stores lacks in glamour , it makes up for in low-ticket reliability .
13 It should be added that what the author lacks in scholarly rigour ( there are no footnotes and the index is skeletal ) he makes up for in discursive readability and enthusiasm .
14 If the average density of the sediment is 2000 kg/m3 , the average rate works out at about 1 cm per thousand years .
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