Example sentences of "fixed [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | People whose wealth consists of assets with a fixed money value ( such as building society deposits and government securities of various kinds ) will be losers , while debtors ( borrowers ) gain from the decline in the real value of their debts . |
| 2 | Chevron 's decision to use a purpose-built vessel for storage poses a problem for authorities responsible for offshore safety : they will have to decide if it should be classified in the same way as a conventional ship or regarded as part of a fixed installation . |
| 3 | Though the oil company regards it as a fixed installation for which a safety case will have to be prepared under the new regulations administered by the Health and Safety Executive , it has taken the added precaution of having the hull constructed in compliance with rules issued by Lloyds Register of Shipping . |
| 4 | But given the fixed level of those overall resources , the inevitable result has been a reduction in resources for the remainder of the school population . |
| 5 | No one can demand a fixed level of achievement . |
| 6 | They 're not velocity sensitive ( ie. they wo n't respond to how hard you hit them with changes in signal ) , and although you can record rhythms and bass lines of varying dynamics into an RY10 pattern from a MIDI source , the incoming velocity values are n't recorded by the drum machine and so the sounds play back at a fixed level . |
| 7 | They 're not velocity sensitive ( ie. they wo n't respond to how hard you hit them with changes in signal ) , and although you can record rhythms and bass lines of varying dynamics into an RY10 pattern from a MIDI source , the incoming velocity values are n't recorded by the drum machine and so the sounds play back at a fixed level . |
| 8 | The engine has to be electronically controlled to give a fixed level of oxygen in its exhaust . |
| 9 | The belief that the sea acting at one fixed level can not cut a very wide bench may be derived from the knowledge that sea level relative to the land has changed often in the recent geological past . |
| 10 | Around 35 per cent of goods were to be sold at unregulated prices , or at prices agreed between supplier and retailer , while prices for a range of other goods ( including food staples such as milk , eggs and sugar ) , and public transport fares , were to rise to a new fixed level . |
| 11 | Increasing the number of residents reduces the costs of a fixed level of the public good . |
| 12 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 13 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 14 | The relationship between these two estimators was found to be unstable across shares and over time , suggesting that the fixed weighting scheme used in the Garman and Klass estimator may not be optimal in reality . |
| 15 | Fuel board Credit for specific appliance , fixed instalment payments , usually quarterly ( with fuel bills ) over two or two-and-a-half years ; interest rate fixed at start . |
| 16 | The problems usually lie not with emptiness , which can be filled , but with the fixed building created by a designer who thought he was being terribly clever but whose design has hindered events ever since . |
| 17 | The alternative Falconet launch method , from a fixed stand using rocket motors ( Zero-Length Launch ) has the advantage of mobility but is many times more expensive per launch . |
| 18 | Use a fixed fireguard and put guards round gas and electric fires . |
| 19 | Although the former method requires little storage it has been found that the benefits from a fixed wordlist far outweigh a statistical approach when determining possible words . |
| 20 | She placed a bony hand firmly on the table top and fixed Wycliffe with her grey eyes . |
| 21 | Fixed Easter |
| 22 | The tables were on a fixed budget and should take a fortnight . |
| 23 | In other words , the principle is that ‘ within a fixed budget , health care resources should be allocated so as to achieve the greatest aggregate of well-being for patients . ’ |
| 24 | In the circumstances , it is not clear what will be considered ‘ unreasonable ’ but , for a DHA with a fixed budget , even a 10 per cent increase in prices would lead to a 9 per cent decrease in services which could be purchased — a serious blow to planning . |
| 25 | The realistic appraisal by working class wives as to what was possible on a fixed budget was also shown in a study of savings conducted by Mass Observation during World War II . |
| 26 | Although attractive as a cost-controlling measure , the fixed budget was considered by many experts to be unrealistic in practice , particularly when funding projects which required the development of new technologies . |
| 27 | They will have a fixed budget to spend on construction , either in total or in particular financial years . |
| 28 | The report also contends that any attempt by the government to establish a fixed budget for the nation 's total health care spending also would run foul of the Fifth Amendment . |
| 29 | Not only are students asked to demonstrate their craft by selecting , preparing and presenting the best possible three course meal for four to a fixed budget , but equally high standards are demanded in the question paper stages of the competition . |
| 30 | The design has been kept basic to reduce costs — no calibrations for the side fence , and a fixed fore and aft fence ( shims or packing could be used to vary the relative positions of each side of the fence ) . |