Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick Herzberg ( 1968 ) put forward the two-factor approach to motivation after an extensive study of job attitudes among engineers and accountants . |
| 2 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | We can work out the total increase in income by recalling that the slope of the withdrawals line is equal to the sum of the marginal propensities to save and import ( given that , in this model , the marginal propensity to tax is zero ) . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total increase in uneployment throughout the countries of the Common Market during the past year ; and what was the percentage of that increase in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Holding a press conference in Gaborone on Jan. 26 during a visit to Botswana , Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) president Zephania Mothopeng called for the total elimination of apartheid through armed struggle , and rejected de Klerk 's reformist measures . |
| 7 | OWN FINANCES A spokesman for Cleveland education department said it was difficult to assess accurately the total cost of vandalism across the whole county because many schools now controlled their own finances . |
| 8 | According to a Swedish study of the economics of wind power in 1979 recommending the construction of 700 offshore windmills , the total cost of generation by this method was comparable with that of AGR generation at a ratio of 1 ( nuclear ) to 1.2 ( wind power ) . |
| 9 | Voluntary organisations have a key role in the total range of provision for adults and are strongly supported in Croydon . |
| 10 | Education is one of the largest consumers of public money : the total expenditure on education in 1989–90 by central and local government in the United Kingdom was an estimated 24.1 billion , some 14% of the total spending on all services . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , although the stick position and the total lack of response to the elevator are by far the most important symptoms of the actual stall , many instructors hardly mention it . |
| 16 | For all that , the key to his return was the total panic of May and the total lack of confidence in the capacity of the existing regime to extricate France from the crisis . |
| 17 | Mobutu on Oct. 23 named Bernardin Mungul Diaka as Prime Minister ; Tshisekedi responded by announcing on Oct. 31 the formation of an alternative cabinet , " in consideration of the total lack of authority of the state " . |
| 18 | Speculation in regard to the relationship of the Muftiliks of Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan to that of Fahreddin Acemi founders because of the total lack of information concerning the Muftiliks of the first two ; and speculation regarding the reasons for the foundation of the institution is likewise extremely difficult as there is little enough information regarding the actual duties even of Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 19 | He produced a general landform equation in which landform ( LF ) could be viewed as a function of geologic material ( m ) ; rate of change of geological material , structural factor ( dm/at ) ; rate of erosion ( de/dt ) ; the rate of uplift ( du/dt ) ; and the total time of duration of the process ( t ) in the form LF = , and he then proposed expressions for an erosion factor ( de/dt ) . |
| 20 | In response to this first reason , it should be noted that major UK companies with involvement in European markets already have to maintain sophisticated compliance programmes with respect to EC Article 86 : parallel UK legislation might , therefore , be expected to reduce the total costs of compliance for these companies as it would cut out some duplication . |
| 21 | Thus , purchases by the Board would have done nothing to facilitate an increase in the total supply of land for development even if they had been much more numerous . |
| 22 | The total supply of money in circulation can not , however , be measured , because although the value of coins struck is known for individual years , there is no satisfactory way of estimating how long they remained in circulation . |
| 23 | The total supply of labour in an economy depends on the following three factors : |
| 24 | Yes , obsession is the total extreme of pride in performance , is n't it ? |
| 25 | Four more of the cartel 's prominent leaders had surrendered to the authorities on July 4 bringing the total number in custody to 13 , including the cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 26 | Each of the several other indicators used affects the total allocation per child by much less , with overall ranges of £12 to £18 . |
| 27 | Had Barlow Clowes been shut down in 1985 , the total investment at risk in the offshore funds would have been less than £31 million . |
| 28 | This Rate will be based on the total loss of height from the final turn , or final approach fix , to 0ft at the threshold . |
| 29 | Disclose the total charge for depreciation on fixed assets . |
| 30 | Did he also draw attention to the total inadequacy of control over pension fund investments and procedures ? |