Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the time spent on the settling-down and clearing-up stages varied from 7 to 45 per cent of the total session , and the introductory stage varied similarly , largely because some teachers treated it as a purely administrative matter to be dealt with as succinctly as possible , while others incorporated it into the session as the whole-class teaching in an arrangement otherwise dominated by group work . |
| 2 | The total provisions represent nearly 19 p.c. of the brewer 's £250m loan book . |
| 3 | The total fines levied more than doubled over the previous year , from £428,000 to £1.05 million . |
| 4 | In manufacturing between 1980 and 1985 output measured per person-hour or per person employed increased by about 25% but the total output remained roughly constant , that is the manufacturing labour force is still falling rapidly ( Economic Trends 1985 ) . |
| 5 | So far , tropical moist forests provide little more than 10% of the total wood used as solid wood and pulp , but as temperate forests become depleted or increasingly under pressure of the ‘ environmental ’ lobby to be managed for functions other than production , attention will inevitably be focused on the tropical resources . |
| 6 | The total expenditure varied very much from shire to shire and from year to year . |
| 7 | At 42°C this digestion was reduced to approximately 10% of the total DNA showing only a two-fold temperature-sensitivity of the activity . |
| 8 | When they are running , the total energy fluctuates wildly . |
| 9 | The total energy consumed overnight is 70 megawatts , the amount needed daily to supply electricity to a town of around 70,000 like Basingstoke , St Albans or Methyr Tydfil , according to research published yesterday by Friends of the Earth . |
| 10 | If we followed the rules er the M R C rules strictly one of the lower risk group of patients was a G three P T one tumour and that patient er progressed and in fact all the patients who progressed , all the four out of the hundred and fifty nine patients who progressed erm from the total group had either G two or G three P T one tumours at diagnosis , and I think there 's a very strong case for making these a totally separate group of patients erm for follow up . |
| 11 | The wood is naturally seasoned outside before being kiln dried , the total process taking around six months . |
| 12 | Lawton ( 1973 ) , in his analysis of Britain 's nineteenth-century population , observed that between 1801 and 1911 , while the total population increased four-fold , that of rural areas was stagnant , and in fact decreased after 1861 ( figure 4. 1 ) . |
| 13 | It is imperative that the competition review should be a full and comprehensive study of the total drinks market so that any distortion emerges clearly . |
| 14 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 15 | The normal scientist works confidently within a well-defined area dictated by a paradigm . |
| 16 | Some have holes in them , some have five tiles in them , some have six or more ( the normal ones have usually got four or less ) . |
| 17 | The normal women showed more obsessional symptoms and more obsessional distress than the normal men . |
| 18 | The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes . |
| 19 | If we establish a hierarchy of social ranks , with kings at the top , servingmen , citizens , sailors , pirates at the bottom , then prose as the normal medium extends upwards to a given point but no further . |
| 20 | Most of the normal rules outlined above concerning partnerships are relevant to the limited partnership , but with some crucial differences . |
| 21 | In terms of these particular variables the behaviour is expressible as and so sufficiently small signals are related by where ; ; Again , the small-signal linearity means that the small-signal sinusoidal response is governed by corresponding phasor equations Symbols are universally adopted to denote the differential parameters involved here because they have hybrid dimensions . |
| 22 | The differential diagnosis includes both primary psychiatric illness and a wide range of organic acute brain syndromes , including substance abuse . |
| 23 | Last year , the ten-year-old company sold more than 750,000 videos . |
| 24 | Some of these bowler-hatted chaps looked like bouncers from the Palais de dance , the protuberance of the ample stomachs bouncing forward with each beat of the drum . |
| 25 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 26 | The background to the Dobry Reports has already been indicated ; in arithmetical terms , between 1968 and 1972 the number of planning decisions by local authorities in England and Wales increased from 425,000 to 615,000 , while the number of appeals rose even more dramatically . |
| 27 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |
| 28 | The Salvadorean left has consistently condemned prostitution . |
| 29 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 30 | Some members of the anti-abortion lobby had apparently been indicating the ‘ weak ’ moral stance of protestants on the issue . |