Example sentences of "per [no cls] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , training per se does not create jobs and , at the end of the day , local employment opportunities will depend on combining an appropriately skilled population with success in stimulating private sector investment . |
| 2 | The Hanoverian succession per se does not appear to have been what triggered most of the unrest . |
| 3 | These data suggest that human insulin per se does not affect the presentation of hypoglycaemia or the neurohumoral , symptomatic , and cognitive function responses to hypoglycaemia in insulin dependent diabetic patients with a history of hypoglycaemia unawareness . |
| 4 | ( 1985 ) suggest that participation per se does not cause better performance ; they hypothesize that participation in decision making strengthens the level of goal acceptance , and this leads to better performance . |
| 5 | However , in the study by McKeever , hand posture per se did not discriminate between left handers on a laterally presented word recognition task although the presence or absence of a family history of left handedness did so . |
| 6 | Organizations per se do not plan , think , or act ; there are human agents eagerly willing to accomplish these in its good name . |
| 7 | We have established that rational expectations per se do not imply policy ineffectiveness , for when rational expectations are combined with alternative models of the macroeconomy systematic policy can influence the behaviour of output and allow the authorities to undertake stabilization policies . |
| 8 | It is generally accepted that odours per se do not cause a risk of infection and it is doubtful whether nausea , sleeplessness , mental strain or depression , commonly suffered by people exposed to odours , would be regarded as evidence of prejudice to health , as they affect a person 's general well-being , rather than threaten a clinical disease . |
| 9 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 10 | More than 75 per cent of primary parents were happy with their level of involvement with 20 per cent wanting more to say in what went on in schools . |
| 11 | A survey of the over 75s living in South Wales revealed that 86 per cent had either visited or stayed in a general hospital ward compared with 33 per cent for a geriatric ward ( Salvage et al . |
| 12 | Only 12 per cent had not contributed directly to any of it . |
| 13 | The rapid returners , where three-quarters struck at the outset , but by mid-November only 10 per cent had not returned to work . |
| 14 | This meant that almost 70 per cent had actually maintained their new figures . |
| 15 | For example , only 11.4 per cent overall favoured factory work , but 21.8 per cent had actually obtained such work , and while 12.5 overall favoured clerical work only 2.6 had obtained such work . |
| 16 | A famous study of comparative political culture , based on research in 1959 and 1960 , revealed that , when Americans were asked what things they were most proud of in their country , 85 per cent had spon-taneously mentioned governmental and political institutions . |
| 17 | The rumoured sale of Willis Faber 's 20.5 per cent holding again excited the market . |
| 18 | Fourteen per cent went on to do some study in Further Education and 25 per cent joined YOP ( Youth Opportunities Programme ) or YTS ( Youth Training Scheme ) schemes . |
| 19 | The statistical approach follows on from the Lorenz curve type information but recognizes that , for example , studying the income share of the bottom 10 per cent does not indicate how they are doing in relation to the mean or median of the distribution . |
| 20 | According to the Kaisha Society , 90 per cent end up working for overseas subsidiaries of Japanese firms — and become outcasts in their own countries . |
| 21 | As a result , by the time the DET did a survey of farm schooling in 1986 , only 3 per cent of the total of 5,782 farm schools offered education for more than seven grades , and 21 per cent did not offer education beyond four grades . |
| 22 | Some doctors used the instrument two or three times a day , six per cent did not carry one in their bag and half had used them fewer than 12 times in the past six months . |
| 23 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 24 | In comparison , a survey of 1,200 white pensioners living in Melton Mowbray found only 2 per cent did not have a state pension . |
| 25 | In an opinion poll taken in December of that year on the question ‘ Which do you think is the more important for Britain to concentrate on : building up strength in atomic weapons and missiles , or in conventional weapons like troops , tanks and bombers ? ’ 52 per cent favoured the former , 8 per cent the latter , 22 per cent neither , wanting disarmament instead , and 18 per cent did not know . |
| 26 | Thirteen per cent did not know . |
| 27 | Thirteen per cent did not know . |
| 28 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 29 | Sixty-seven per cent of creditors had no knowledge of the debtor 's financial state at the time of the original transaction , and 77 per cent did not obtain any further information before or during the proceedings . |
| 30 | Fifty-six per cent did not operate the sales ledger on secured terms ; 27 per cent did ; and 16 per cent sometimes operated on secured terms , using bank guarantees , export credit guarantee , or cash up front . |