Example sentences of "total [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allows the practice to compare total income per job against total time-cost and to identify job types which consistently show imbalance . |
| 2 | Nine patients had a partial or total colectomy for constipation before this study . |
| 3 | The Dutch government is so concerned that at next week 's 103-nation conference in Lausanne of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ( Cites ) it will call for a total ban on trade in the plants . |
| 4 | As for the flowers , the Dutch delegation will be calling for a total ban on trade in some rare slipper orchids , which they say face extinction in 10 years unless something drastic is done . |
| 5 | Health and Medical Organisations : All the leading British and international medical and health organisations that have studied the problem of smoking have called for a total ban by legislation on the promotion of tobacco . |
| 6 | Careful studies of the total level of output per head of the population in 1950 suggested that , taking the United States as 100 , the United Kingdom scored 55 , France 46 , Germany 37 and Italy 25 . |
| 7 | The observations on the last datapoint before transfer and the first after were averaged over 10 minute periods throughout the day , and show engagement by the individual studied , help , and the total level of contact from staff . |
| 8 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
| 9 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 10 | Lord Donaldson said objectives due to be included in this autumn 's Bill were ‘ total freedom of choice for the client , unless the interests of justice otherwise require ’ . |
| 11 | This idea has often been ridiculed by anthropologists who point out that there is no record or suggestion that there ever was , or ever could be , a stage of total sharing and total freedom of access by everybody at any time to anything . |
| 12 | It was planned to achieve total freedom of movement for capital by the end of 1992 , with remaining exchange controls to be lifted one year earlier than anticipated . |
| 13 | Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ? |
| 14 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 15 | They may be driven to a frenzy by the pains , with a total loss of consideration for others ; they may be quarrelsome , disputative and uncivil . |
| 16 | Yet what was striking about the open meeting to discuss the plan that was held on May 25th in London 's Albert Hall was the names ' total loss of confidence in Lloyd 's leadership . |
| 17 | This is shown clinically by the decrease or total loss of secretion of the affected glands . |
| 18 | This Rate will be based on the total loss of height from the final turn , or final approach fix , to 0ft at the threshold . |
| 19 | As Gibbs ( 1975 , p. 11 ) points out , in a book marking a later resurgence of interest , the positivist eclipse of classicism led to an almost total loss of interest in deterrence in the writings of criminologists , even when they were considering ‘ policy questions pertaining to the control of crime ’ ; and he gives many examples . |
| 20 | On March 17 the government moderated some of the impact of the railway budget introduced on Feb. 25 [ see p. 38762 ] , with concessions for second-class rail season tickets and the withdrawal of an increase in long-distance sleeper charges , amounting to a total loss in revenue of Rs600,000,000 . |
| 21 | Had Barlow Clowes been shut down in 1985 , the total investment at risk in the offshore funds would have been less than £31 million . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Clarify Inc , San Jose , California , pocketed $5.4m in its second round of financing , bringing total investment to date to $8.9m , considerably more than other like-minded start-ups like ProActive Software Inc , Scopus Technology Inc , Aurum Software Inc , Quintus and Lysis Inc , Atlanta , Georgia , have to play with . |
| 23 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total revenue from duty on tobacco goods in 1990 . |
| 24 | In his earlier work , Schoenberg reached for an almost total emancipation of dissonance in ‘ atonality ’ . |
| 25 | Nearly total car on roundabout near Muddiford again . |
| 26 | It is difficult to assess the total effect on employment of any assistance , but the 1988 Action for Cities statement ( HMSO , 1988a ) argued that UDGs provided nearly 30,000 jobs . |
| 27 | This illustrates better the total effect of stratification on the boundary layer ( but the reduction of all cases to a single curve is lost ) . |
| 28 | These brief wakenings do not prevent a similar total quantity of sleep to younger men and women , since we tend to stay in bed slightly longer as we get older . |
| 29 | As there is a limit to the number of houses which can be sold in a particular area each year , new land allocations should have a total capacity in excess of the requirement . |
| 30 | Voluntary organisations have a key role in the total range of provision for adults and are strongly supported in Croydon . |