Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [n mass] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suggest that since 94% of the asthmatics consented to endoscopy , selection bias was unlikely to be a major factor in biasing our results . |
| 2 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 3 | And although sales of the machines may be flat , ‘ at least we have n't seen a major fall like IBM ’ . |
| 4 | It was a large basement , with no street-level exposure , and although sales for the first two days were excitingly high , the next few months were a disaster . |
| 5 | And if MPs on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies what can we suppose the money they receive is for ? |
| 6 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 7 | But while people in the sample can give the information , the question still has to be answered as to why they should bother . |
| 8 | Subsidiarity may be even worse than worthless , because if people of the intellect of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary believe that it will be some protection when in fact it will not , that illusion may lead to a great deal more movement to the centre than they would like to see . |