Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned . |
| 2 | support a continued moratorium on hunting the great whales , and push for a similar body to the International Whaling Commission to take responsibility for the 66 small cetaceans currently unprotected |
| 3 | They recognise that mixture of theatre and dance as a general trend in the dance world . |
| 4 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 5 | These ten programs contend for a limited number of real and symbolic resources . |
| 6 | In the manufacturing sectors of Britain , the USA and Australia , conglomerates predominate as a major locus of internalized planning and communication . |
| 7 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 8 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 9 | Critics ascribed the rise in currency to the current trade surplus and high domestic interest rates rather than the impact of foreign investment funds , which account for a small proportion of equity investment . |
| 10 | As the social services account for a substantial part of public spending , cuts affected a wide range of services . |
| 11 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 12 | We have made real progress in developing our non-oil related businesses where sales now account for a good proportion of the Group 's turnover |
| 13 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 14 | Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs . |
| 15 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 16 | In spite of knowledge of precautions , injuries from accidents during sport and leisure activities are common-place and account for a significant proportion of emergency admission to hospitals . |
| 17 | Scottish & Newcastle ( McEwans and Youngers beers , Newcastle Brown ) have a relatively low holding of tied public houses ( which are mainly in Scotland and the North East ) , but still account for a significant proportion of total beer sales , partly through sales to free houses and partly through the strong position of their brands in the off-licence trade . |
| 18 | Publisher 's themed series now account for a significant part of the market , but are too many thought up by designers and marketing departments rather than horticulturalists ? |
| 19 | Parts and components account for a growing share of Japan 's exports ; 28% of total exports and 36% of machinery exports in 1992 compared with 19% and 28% respectively in 1981 . |
| 20 | However , it will be evident from the figures that sole practitioners account for a disproportionate percentage of the responses in relation to the percentage of firms in private practice as a whole which they constitute ( 63% and 37% respectively ) . |
| 21 | In the present generations of younger women , very few never marry so this particular source of family care has almost dried up , although there is evidence that never-married women still account for a disproportionate number of unpaid carers ( Finch and Groves , 1980 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure . |
| 23 | As EMS currencies are pegged to each other and account for a big part of each other 's baskets , the stability of the trade-weighted values of the French franc and the D-mark compared with the dollar and the yen is no surprise . |
| 24 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 25 | Official documents account for a large proportion of the primary sources . |
| 26 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |
| 27 | Since elderly patients account for a large proportion of the increased prescribing seen in the past decade , any comparisons between data should take account of the age profile of practice populations . |
| 28 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 29 | Right , I mean the exceptions to , to the sort of , that general sort of rule of thumb are enterprises where variable costs account for a large proportion of total costs , things like egg production , pig production , they tend to be very short run supply elasticities tend to be very high in those type of enterprises , primarily because most of the costs , alright , are tied up in , in variable costs . |
| 30 | Non-ferrous metals account for a large part of our overseas expenditure on raw materials . |