Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] " 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 introductory leaflet did not mince its words : ‘ It was a period when words contradicted deeds , propaganda realities , and when everyday life was full of fear , hypocrisy , and people felt helpless , having been at the mercy of those in power . ’ |
| 3 | The docked structure had this hydroxyl group pointing towards CypA forming a hydrogen bond with the carbonyl oxygen of Asn 102 ( ref. 24 ) . |
| 4 | Only those who had any idea of the inside story recognised the scale of Mrs Gould 's contribution . |
| 5 | Such factors relate to the conduct of the employee and the total compensation received . |
| 6 | And this was just in the excavated part ; by extrapolation , the researchers conclude that the total sett consisted of about 880 metres of tunnels , with 124 open entrances . |
| 7 | While 28 per cent of the total sample said they are in contact with their solicitors at least once a quarter , it is weighted towards the larger business ( see table 4 ) . |
| 8 | At the same time it should be noted that while 14% of authorities fell into this group , 26% of the total sample had establishments of less than 100 , so that not all small libraries found this an insurmountable problem . |
| 9 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
| 10 | The total money raised was £101.70 . |
| 11 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 12 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 13 | Companies in which foreign capital amounted to more than half of the total capital constituted 63.1 per cent of all joint-stock companies . |
| 14 | It is obvious that the aggregate demand for consumption goods must Brow at the same rate as the production of such commodities if equilibrium is to be maintained ; but there is an inherent drive within the capitalist system to reduce the amount of variable capital advanced or employed for the purchase of labour-power as a proportion of the total capital advanced . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The total expenditure varied very much from shire to shire and from year to year . |
| 18 | The present system is that income is distributed pro rata to the total debt owed . |
| 19 | Secondly , although the Courts had historically tended to distribute pro rata to the total debt owed , there was no requirement to do so . |
| 20 | In its Brady deal they took a dim view of a proposal to encash the country 's paper at just 45% of its face value , which attracted a mere 7% of the total debt tendered . |
| 21 | Champagne Rose was what they drank and , with liqueurs and coffee , the total bill came to £2.4s.6d . |
| 22 | The total haul came to more than £1,000 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now since the number of waves a second is unlimited , this would mean that the total energy radiated would be infinite . |
| 25 | The total number inoculated by him , his assistants , and partners in the three years 1764–6 amounted to almost 20,000 without , it was claimed , a single death directly attributable to the treatment . |
| 26 | The reported number of people known to have HIV only includes those who have taken a blood test , and is therefore only likely to be a small proportion of the total number infected . |
| 27 | Virtually everywhere from the Highlands to London 's suburbs , main line and local , passenger trains were steadily busier , the total number carried exceeding that of pre-Beeching days when the system was much larger . |
| 28 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
| 29 | This combined number of fewer than 300 audit firms represents less than 3% of the total number registered . |
| 30 | The number of patients with recurrent stones compared with the total number scanned was three of 72 at three to five months , two of 82 at six to 11 months , two of 56 at 12–17 months , one of 21 at 18–23 months , one of three at 24–35 months , and 0 of two at 36–47 months . |