Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] in [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 2 | But his sudden withdrawing of his Fourth Symphony and his artist 's response in his Fifth Symphony had made the young revolutionary acutely aware of the precarious role of the creative artist in Stalin 's Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Sheringham , who hit 24 goals last season and scored Forest 's winner in their televised 1-0 clash against Liverpool at the City Ground on Sunday , says : ‘ I had virtually concluded negotiations over personal terms with Tottenham 's Terry Venables and in my own mind I had already joined Spurs . ’ |
| 4 | He looked down now on to the plate on which lay a pig 's foot and two pieces of streaky pork ; and picking up the pig 's foot in his two hands , he gnawed at it for a moment before looking at the child again and asking her , ‘ Well , what 's your other name ? ’ |
| 5 | Darlington Liberal Democrats have supported the party 's national leader Paddy Ashdown 's forthrightness in his recent response to the news of his affair with a former secretary . |
| 6 | Even short periods at home with small children seem to destroy women 's faith in their own ability . |
| 7 | He rejects as mistaken the notion that the study of other religions might undermine or weaken a believer 's faith in his own religion . |
| 8 | I feel that if we are not careful , outside pressures with no understanding of people 's responsibility in their own areas would get involved which would be a shame from everyone 's viewpoint . |
| 9 | The expert 's liability in his primary profession is considered by looking at successful actions against members of the same profession in cases where the duty is owed to one party only : for instance , where a valuation is prepared for a buyer and not both buyer and seller . |
| 10 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 11 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 12 | We watch him , as it were , standing back rather too obviously from his work , its rhythms and syntax , its narrative tricks and technical effects suffused with their author 's pleasure in his own accomplishment . |
| 13 | Dave Crowe 's prediction in his Daily Telegraph preview that the Otago man would be 12th man was not only mistaken , but far away from what almost everybody else was thinking . |
| 14 | Another aspect may well be Lorca 's rejection of industrialisation — a Romantic hangover , no doubt ! — which appears in Leonard 's oscillation in his late teens between commerce and art . |
| 15 | This is the front half of a Vauxhall Astra mounted in a darkened room with the driver 's seat in its normal place but the windscreen glass removed . |
| 16 | Hilbert 's theorem in its ring-theoretic form is stated in Section 3.4 . |
| 17 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 18 | When Lalage , neat as a Nannie 's child in her blue Viyella dressing-gown , had darted off to the bathroom , Nicandra , for the present absolved from her duties as friend and hostess , wound up her gramophone and , as she undressed , surged and swooned pleasantly to the heart-breaking cadences of the Caprice Viennois . |
| 19 | And actor Jesse 's fate in his beefed-up role as two-timing villain Marcus Tandy will be the first of a string of strong new storylines . |
| 20 | To be fair , though , there 's just as much of mad Al Jourgenson 's influence in their sample-laden industrial ear-bashers , coming with a good 50 per cent more hate than your regulation grebo fare . |
| 21 | Formerly Count Basie 's drummer in his last great orchestra , he recently took over the drum chair at the Village Vanguard for the famous Monday night sessions featuring the Mel Lewis Big Band . |
| 22 | The appeal of Mosley 's campaign in its new form drew Joyce to it . |
| 23 | Indeed the whole point of Smith 's contention in his 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations is that if individuals pursue their own self-interests then , as it were , an invisible hand will guide all their separate strivings and competition and lead them into the greater good for society as a whole . |
| 24 | Congregations will insist on hearing candidates preach sermons which may have taken weeks to prepare or to speak more correctly which some of them never prepared , whereas they forget that a man 's work in his own parish is the best possible testimony as to who and what he is , and one that can easily and accurately be ascertained . |
| 25 | It was thought a generous declaration — but not in the light of Wales 's batting in their first innings . |
| 26 | Today 's population in their 20's is the most healthy , but at the most risk from stress and anxiety |
| 27 | ARA 's successor , the Economic Development Administration ( EDA ) , encompassed fully 84.5 per cent of the nation 's population in its 2,230 designated areas ’ . |
| 28 | The first knockdown shows us how one Rokkaku can bear down on another , its cross-spars pushing at the other 's sail in its vulnerable side where shape is vital . |
| 29 | They became a wild goose chase after an obsession of Heather 's very own , which , all else apart , cast doubt on Zohra 's confidence in her mental stability . |
| 30 | Maternal grandmother had started to take control once the baby came home and undermined mother 's confidence in her own abilities to care for the baby . |