Example sentences of "of [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , separate decisions need to be taken in relation to : ( 1 ) VAT registrationwhere , if the partners of the new office are not to be the same as those carrying on business at headquarters , separate registration will be required ; ( 2 ) preparation of accountswhere if separate accounts for each office are kept , with separate accounting dates ( which is a matter to be settled between the partners and the firm 's accountants and involves no breach of professional conduct whichever decision may be taken ) , accountants ' reports will have to be produced in respect of each office ; ( 3 ) identity of the partnerswhether the new office should be run as a separate partnership or as a branch office ; ( 4 ) investment business certificatesseparate certificates will be needed if there is not an identity of partners at all a firm 's offices . |
| 2 | By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) . |
| 3 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 4 | Highers were designed to meet the needs of less than thirty percent of our school population , and that leaves the majority who stay on less than well-served . |
| 5 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 6 | The crystal structure shows that CsA binds to CypA with the side chains of MeBmt-1 , Abu-2 , Sar-3 , MeLeu-9 , MeLeu-10 and MeVal-11 of CsA making contacts of less than 4 with the CypA residues Arg 55 , Phe 60 , Met 61 , Gln 63 , Gly 72 , Ala 101 , Asn 102 , Ala 103 , Gln 111 , Phe 113 , Trp 121 , Leu 122 , His 126 ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 7 | Injection was the sole route of use of less than 4 per cent of the clients , but in combination with other methods ( smoking and sniffing ) , injection was used by one in ten of the users . |
| 8 | If your normal working week prior to unemployment consisted of less than 4 days , then you must lose at least 1 day 's employment in order to qualify for UB . |
| 9 | Various parameters are used to assess the severity of reflux , for example , percentage time for which the oesophagus reaches a pH of less than 4 , number of episodes , and average duration of each reflux episode . |
| 10 | All patients were receiving oxygen via nasal prongs at a rate of less than 4 L per min . |
| 11 | It 's best to use the work of three or four children spanning the ability range ; but children of less than nine may not write much , and so you probably need more than three or four children 's work to make up the 100 . |
| 12 | King Henry IV proved not to be popular , mainly because he had to ward off constant attempts to usurp him , and all his energy was directed in that pursuit , so that he died at an age of less than forty-seven , in March 1413 . |
| 13 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 14 | In the Brianne catchment of mid-Wales streams with a hardness of less than 8 milligrams per litre of calcium carbonate ‘ have a depleted flora and fauna and salmonid fish are either absent or present only in small numbers ’ . |
| 15 | The moth can hear the bat from a greater distance than the bat can pick up the echo from a flying moth ; to be precise , a moth can hear a bat about 100 feet away , whereas a bat can detect a moth at a range of less than 8 feet . |
| 16 | England was still overwhelmingly rural ; 75 per cent of the population lived in small communities of less than 450 people , and many of those who lived in more urban surroundings nevertheless had only 1,000 to 2,000 neighbours and often even fewer . |
| 17 | On the basis of such calculations John Ellis , head of theory at CERN , offers two-to-one odds that the Higgs has a mass of less than 200 billion electron volts ( 200GeV , 0.2TeV ) — or , if there is no simple Higgs , that some other mechanism that performs its function can be found at around that energy . |
| 18 | With a membership of less than 200 , few of noble lineage , and with the whiff of Regency gambling , that mainspring of London cricket , still leaving a dubious odour , Aislabie set about his task with enormous energy . |
| 19 | Since large plantations occupy the best agricultural land , most of the rural population cultivate small plots of less than 0.4 ha on the steep slopes of the mountainous central region where there are thin volcanic soils . |
| 20 | Harrison and colleagues found that for vessels with a residual lumen of less than 0.4 square mm in cross-sectional area , there was a high incidence of re-thrombosis . " |
| 21 | Radiocarbon results of less than two hundred years are therefore usually described as ‘ modern ’ . |
| 22 | Given these crushing disadvantages and a term of less than two and a half years , it is perhaps not surprising that Ford 's presidency was a failure . |
| 23 | Early studies in the USA ( Hughes , 1923 ; Woodbury , 1925 ) reported higher infant mortality rates for those born after an interval of less than two years than for those born after a longer interval . |
| 24 | We have a , an unemployment rate officially of twelve thousand , probably the real figure as you well know is up probably sixteen thousand in a city of less than two hundred thousand . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure , but I think when I studied this in college I think it was something like the average of producers of vocabulary of less than two thousand words . |
| 26 | Providing there 's a condition attached , that they have savings of less than two hundred pounds . |
| 27 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 28 | North Cornwall : key Cornish seat , where swing of less than five per cent would unseat Sir Gerry Neale , who helped to run Mrs Thatcher 's unsuccessful campaign to remain party leader . |
| 29 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 30 | Adding together the numbers of self-employed , family workers and labour in firms of less than 30 employees in non-agricultural work for 1984 gives a total of about 25 million people , of which it appears that one-third ( 8.2 million ) work in units of less than five people ( FTW 1/2/86 ) . |