Example sentences of "[adv] total [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of handing over total responsibility for the care of the most vulnerable people in society to such local authorities was felt by some to be profoundly disquieting . |
| 2 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 3 | There is almost always total consensus in an organization on the best and the worst performance , although there is rarely any agreement at all about the ranking of the group in between . |
| 4 | When governments attempt to control the money supply , therefore , they must seek to control the size of bank deposits and thereby control the amount of bank lending and hence total expenditure in the economy ( aggregate demand ) . |
| 5 | True to his maxim that ‘ Liberty crowns the edifice ’ , Napoleon III now felt that the time was opportune and , as a first step , had granted virtually total freedom of the press and the tight of public meetings . |
| 6 | In contrast there has been the almost total cessation of the reporting of rape trials by the News of the World , as described above ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 7 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 8 | An almost total strike by the country 's coalminers during the second half of December presented a serious challenge to the Polish government 's economic and industrial policy . |
| 9 | This example illustrates how one branch of government , through a minor change in welfare benefit regulations , has developed a policy in almost total opposition to the policy of community care being pursued by the health and social service agencies . |
| 10 | The consequence has been an over-concentration on the negative possibilities of LMS to the almost total exclusion of the positive , democratising potential of the delegation of power from LEAs to schools . |
| 11 | The report added that the almost total blackout on the issue in the press ‘ speaks volumes for the apathy , fear and misguidedness currently existing in this country ’ . |
| 12 | The report added that the almost total blackout on the issue in the press ‘ speaks volumes for the apathy , fear and misguidedness currently existing in this country ’ . |
| 13 | Some university administrations give almost total control of the bookfund to the librarian , with suggestions from departments and faculties permitted , but not particularly encouraged . |
| 14 | While the agencies maintained almost total control over the enforcement of standards , a control which could be preserved in the absence of publicity , this posed no problem : ‘ A lot of the standards were set by River Authorities ; and the works were n't capable of achieving [ them ] anyway , ’ a senior official said . |
| 15 | On the basis of the MAFF-DoE memo this would seem likely to include the farming and fertiliser industries , and would give the Ministry of Agriculture almost total control over the policy . |
| 16 | Clothing is one of the largest sectors of UK industry and is particularly important in Northern Ireland , where total employment in the industry represents a substantial proportion of all those employed in manufacturing . |
| 17 | Okay total crap about the aggression of something , a book on aggression . |