Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in examining the relationship between aggregate consumer spending and aggregate disposable income , it is important to determine whether or not , over a period of years , the spending and income data tend to fluctuate around a regular trend , or have a tendency to wander far away from their trend . |
| 2 | Their data do bear out a long-term relative decline in urban manufacturing ( ibid. , Table 2 ) . |
| 3 | Nonetheless these data have allowed both the descriptive work outlined in the next section and the explanatory work outlined in the section after that ( on the ‘ Classification and definition of rural areas ’ ) to be produced . |
| 4 | The principles of stressing and testing aircraft have remained much the same from the days of wooden biplanes down to supersonic fighters although there are many differences in practice . |
| 5 | ‘ This time of year my people begin putting out the seed . |
| 6 | People like to pull out the job supplement in the middle and , you know , they 've got to be able to do that easily 'cos they throw the rest away , you know , and read the job supplement and they well . |
| 7 | The main stand is a gutted shell and home games have been played at Guisborough while club staff try to thrash out the situation with insurers . |
| 8 | For adults over the age of 18 the electoral roll is the normal sample frame , but even this is far from perfect since it is compiled only once each year and many people fail to fill in the necessary forms while others may change address shortly after registering . |
| 9 | Many people wish to write down the opportunities which exist , but under the present Government there is a future for many of the defence-related industries in my area . |
| 10 | His remarks follow a media campaign to build up the prestige of Mr Jiang , who was party boss in Shanghai before moving to Peking to replace his disgraced predecessor , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 11 | Courts have no effect.We need to bring back the stocks . |
| 12 | Many people have noted how the police are not helpful in initiating research or in welcoming sociologists ( Greenhill 1981 : 91 ; Holdaway 1979 : 1 , 1983 : 3–4 ) . |
| 13 | The military and large corporations control Congress and the president while the American people have to pick up the tax bill to finance it all . |
| 14 | In contrast to Bourdieu , Baudrillard believed that people have become merely the vehicles for expressing the differences between objects . |
| 15 | Enticed by a 2 per cent incentive payment on top of the National Insurance rebate , some five million people have taken up the option since it was introduced in July 1988 . |
| 16 | She added : ‘ A lot of people have walked up the Eiffel Tower so I thought it would be something different to go backwards . |
| 17 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 18 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 19 | Many people have summed up the effect of a minimum wage . |
| 20 | A spokesman for Brixham coastguard said : ‘ It is very dangerous because people have to scramble down the cliffs and then onto the boat and then they have to get off carrying whatever they have nicked . |
| 21 | Federman sees the postmodern period as one in which the media have taken over the informational role of fiction , drastically reducing its status . |
| 22 | I hear from those who have not been imprisoned in the debate for a long time that the electronic media have reported well the exchanges that took place . |
| 23 | Bill and Kath , along with their loyal staff have put virtually a lifetime 's effort into acquiring the immense amount of stock contained at PAS , and the one thing that really concerns them is that if anything should ever happen to either of them , what would be the future for all the stock ? |
| 24 | Council house building has all but stopped , while sales have stripped out the better stock . |
| 25 | The pair have tracked down a lot of information about the Pagefield Ironworks including some of the original draughtsmen 's drawings . |