Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | certainly if taken in high dosage by injecting 2 or 3 combipens or too many of the tablets , it could cause irregular heart beat . |
| 2 | Hence America 's trade troubles throughout the world : the nation produces what America wants but not much of anything anyone else wants . |
| 3 | It also says that very little of the new money is being spent on things which are genuinely different and distinguishable from existing statutory programmes and policies . |
| 4 | In quantum mechanics the uncertainty principle says that only one of these measurements can be predicted ; the observer can predict the result of measuring either the position or the velocity but not both . |
| 5 | This is because it assumes that only one of the candidates in each position is correct , so the assignment of scores to words has to be delayed until the maximum for any given position is known . |
| 6 | The presence of resistor R24 ensures that the oscillation falls very quickly to zero , hence the input to IC7 vanishes and only one of the scoring sequence of l.e.d.s remains on . |
| 7 | The bitterness of the debate shows that not all of Chernobyl 's damage was medical and environmental . |
| 8 | Assuming a lead-time of approximately six years , i.e. the time taken between starting to train and ultimately being elected a full member of the Division , this figure shows that over half of those building surveyors now practising started their education during the period 1967–75 . |
| 9 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 10 | Mr Matthews reckons that about half of the banks ' retained earnings comes from securities gains . |
| 11 | It seems that not all of the answers were provided in their report . |
| 12 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 13 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 14 | The precise interpretation of correlation co-efficients depends upon the size of the data-sets employed , but , as a rule of thumb , a correlation of 0.7 indicates that approximately half of the variation in the set of test scores is attributable to real variations in the attribute being measured . |
| 15 | This indicates that around 350,000 of the 141 million population could be infected with HIV , the virus that causes AIDS . |
| 16 | Barker 's ( 1984 , p. 22 ) review of the living arrangements of elderly people of Asian and Afro-Caribbean origin indicates that almost three-quarters of Asian elderly people live in large households and as few as 5 per cent live alone , whereas the household composition of elderly people of Afro-Caribbean origin is similar to that in the white population . |
| 17 | The PSI report indicates that roughly half of the London population have serious doubts about the standard of police conduct , although in most cases police misconduct was not seen as a normal , everyday occurrence . |
| 18 | While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures . |
| 19 | The committee has also recommended an increase in the proportion of overseas students from 5.0% to 7.5% , which implies that barely half of the extra places will be available to local applicants . |
| 20 | Reports that almost one-third of volunteers for the army during the Boer War had to he rejected due to physical inadequacy ( too short or too thin ) or ill-health ( in many case due to flat feet or bad teeth but frequently also due to heart and lung trouble or other serious ailments ) were often exaggerated , but they strengthened such fears . |
| 21 | A SURVEY in this month 's New Woman magazine claims that almost half of Britain 's women cheat on their partners . |
| 22 | Wiring up plugs is something we all have to do , but a recent MORI survey suggests that almost half of British adults are unlikely to carry out the job correctly . |
| 23 | Even allowing for a slight predominance of boys over girls among children , this still suggests that around two-thirds of the first generation of mill workers were female . |
| 24 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |