Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such instances are not typical of their managerial system of control for it is unlikely that a single individual would be able to oversee a widely dispersed media empire . |
| 2 | This project will analyse a hitherto unavailable data source on new entry and exit in all UK manufacturing industries for the period 1973-1981 . |
| 3 | This work has consisted of adding graphics , providing a much improved statistics capability , salary modelling facilities and , more recently , the examination of its use for manpower modelling . |
| 4 | Thomas Forster had been assigned to General George Carpenter , a highly experienced cavalry officer . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ In the sectors we are targeting , the need is for a highly specialist sales force which can identify and respond to ever-changing demands . |
| 6 | There is also a highly popular staff restaurant and in the eight years since CCG began catering we have introduced several innovations such as vegetarian and ethnic food , a salad restaurant , an outside catering service and a bespoke catering service to satellite locations . |
| 7 | IBM also now offer a more comprehensive multimedia tool called the Audio Visual Connection ( AVC ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand the relationship to zones of anomalous Carboniferous uplift can not be ignored and the pattern requires further investigation with a more extensive data base than that available for this study . |
| 9 | It is anticipated that a more complete data bank on all forms of supply and demand will be set up in the exchange . |
| 10 | The resolutions , which have recently been published , call for a more just media environment in the Philippines in particular , but are intended to be used worldwide . |
| 11 | A more aggressive sales campaign for this capsule collection was also launched in the important U.S. and Japanese markets , creating opportunities for further growth . |
| 12 | Supplemented by other archival sources , this will form a more reliable data set than any available hitherto , and will facilitate an examination of trends in , and connections between , sources of finance , profitability , investment and dividend policies , the impact of the trade cycle . |
| 13 | Compared to the Chardonnay it has a more obvious fruit character and in its youth possesses a greater depth of flavour and bouquet . |
| 14 | And that 's how Pelican managed to boost profits by an astonishing 173% to £357,000 in the six months to end September , despite a more pedestrian 35% rise in turnover to £3.83m . |
| 15 | Galicia is an area of minute holdings ; from Santander , through the Basque provinces , Navarre , and Pyrenean Aragon to Catalonia stretches a band of small proprietors enjoying relatively secure tenures ; to the south lie the medium and small cereal farms of Castile and Léon and the remnants of a once great sheep economy ; in the deep south , reaching into Estremadura and New Castile , stretch the latifundia worked by day labourers ; along the Levante coast small proprietors or tenants produce from carefully irrigated huertas specialized export crops . |
| 16 | But the Moat House International has increased its markt share , reduced a traditionally high staff turnover to 8 per cent ( the hotel has 145 staff covering 240 rooms ) and turned an average of 40 compliments to 60 complaints into 82 per cent compliments to 18 per cent complaints . |
| 17 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 18 | Maybe you were neither of these but in the pocey extension to the left as you go in where all the posers and knobs hang out ( even though it 's got a really good 6ft TV there ) … |
| 19 | I recently came back from a trip to Egypt and despite the fact that I enjoyed the food there , I had an urge to make a really wholesome fish pie . |
| 20 | And by encouraging wide participation in Compact programmes such as Work Experience , mock interviews , teacher secondment into industry and employer secondment you are making available to your colleagues a uniquely valuable staff development experience . |
| 21 | His conversation is a finely wrought sales pitch . |
| 22 | Do we see appraisal as a process which in itself will lead to ‘ improvement ’ ( the control model ) , or as something which really only makes sense in the context of a fully developed staff development process ? |
| 23 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 24 | It seemed to be full of alcoves and angles and small grouped areas of being , though the room itself was a plain rectangle : fish swam in a high globe , a monstrously enlarged goldfish bowl on top of a bookcase , and flowers and foliage stood on small pedestals here and there . |
| 25 | Manson took it off , leaving the Chinaman with a sadly depleted sales pitch . |
| 26 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
| 27 | I have also been exploring the Bit Knitter and the range of design options offered by Deluxe Paint , which is a very powerful graphics package . |
| 28 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
| 29 | His light-hearted and friendly manner enabled him to put over a very strong sales pitch without a hint of strain . |
| 30 | This makes the demonstration a very efficient sales tool . |