Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The removal of Wages Council protection for under 21s through the Wages Act 1986 , combined with the [ removal of ] right to income support for most 16- to 17-year-olds , has contributed to the decline of young workers ’ wages compared to those of adult workers . ’ |
| 2 | and she had a grant for so much off the council |
| 3 | That is why , in the defence estimates debate on 14 October 1991 , my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) said : ’ We should be careful to preserve the opportunity for as many of our civilians as possible to serve in the volunteer forces . ’ |
| 4 | Holders Waringstown flashed a warning that they will not be easily deprived of the trophy , sweeping out Phoenix Park for only 45 in Dublin and winning by nine wickets . |
| 5 | He occupies a 12th floor office in a building about as typical of a government department as you can get . |
| 6 | In London responsibility for around two-thirds of GLC spending , and in the former metropolitan county areas about half , was transferred to non-departmental bodies or central departments ( Dunleavy and Rhodes , 1987 , p. 23 ) . |
| 7 | Whether hunting or hunted , the act of concealment is a major survival technique for literally thousands of species . |
| 8 | So we 'll have our tea about maybe half past five and just you and mummy and Grant . |
| 9 | For anyone who goes out to work or has to leave home early during the week the garden is a weekends-only pleasure for almost half of the year . |
| 10 | They are currently the single most common cause of death in England and Wales accounting for about one-third of all child deaths . |
| 11 | The corks were tight enough to keep the wine in good condition for perhaps forty to fifty years , but it is understandable that after sixty years some evaporation should have taken place . |
| 12 | Careful collaboration between the Shamir-Arens camp and supporters of Sharon also resulted in the defeat of almost all of Levi 's supporters . |
| 13 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 14 | Tadchester New Town is situated in the heart of the industrial midlands and has suffered major closures and a job loss of over 6,000 in the last three years . |
| 15 | First , there was the simple fact of depopulation which diminished the general size of the market and the level of demand for indigenous manufactures , and no doubt thereby arrested the economic development of the whole region ; second , the depopulation affected agriculture , reducing some previous food exporting regions to starvation levels by the nineteenth century ; third , African production of cloth , metalware and other handicrafts was severely affected , not only by the loss of so many of its producers , but also by the fact that in return the slave traders penetrated the markets of the coast and hinterland with European cotton and manufactured goods ; and fourth , as the demand for slaves multiplied and as many African kings and merchants became even more dependent on European trade , war raids for the capture of potential slaves from neighbouring societies became even more frequent , injecting political instability , consuming precious economic resources , and creating a vicious spiral in which rival kingdoms became ever more dependent on the slave trade to acquire the fire arms necessary for capturing more slaves and in turn defending their slaves against slave-hunting raids from neighbouring kingdoms ( Rodney , 1972 , pp. 104–23 ; Davidson , 1974 , pp. 206 — 10 ; Inikoria , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The gap between the two has resulted in the debt burden , in the loss of national sovereignty and in the loss of so many of the nascent social services in those countries . |
| 17 | They did kill an estimated 1,500 Japanese for the loss of only 40 of their own men ; a sharp contrast to the 166,500 Allied losses ( mostly prisoners ) in Malaya , Hong Kong , and in the Dutch East Indies , where the Japanese lost only 15,000 men in the campaigns of the 1940–41 winter . |
| 18 | This will result in the loss of about one-third of power generated . |
| 19 | Just to give a flavour of the more joyful side : as a result of so many of us being out and being there , many other women workers , and many young women have come to feel that the time was right for them too , that they too have lesbian potential . |
| 20 | The only important advance made by the Party was the founding of the Daily Worker in January 1930 , and that had reached a circulation of only 18,000 by the end of the following year . |
| 21 | Young Guard , one of the most popular of this type of journal , had a circulation of only 9,000 in 1922 , and dropped to between 5,000 and 6,000 an issue by 1926 . |
| 22 | So , the detail of the survey results points up several ways in which the readiness of perhaps one in five borrowers to take account of total credit cost and APR , when considering loan options , is likely to be undermined , thwarted , or occasionally even entirely misapplied , in practice . |
| 23 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 24 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 25 | Then , outside , in an indication of just one of the unusual qualities of the growing East German opposition , they chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and sang the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 26 | But was a first-hand witness of so many of the circumstances that led to the deaths . |
| 27 | Leave a gap of about 15 to 18mm between slabs |
| 28 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 29 | Guaranteed income bonds ( GIBs ) , bought with a lump sum investment from a life insurance company , provide a fixed regular income over a term of usually one to five years . |
| 30 | Together , the parents excavate a small cave 10–15cm deep , with an entrance of about 2–3cm in diameter . |