Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 2 | While smaller churches may be able to count every week , this may prove impractical for large churches , especially with more than one exit , without some fairly elaborate means of arriving at a total for each service . |
| 3 | So if in A one to A four , you got the numbers one hundred thousand , that 'll use sixteen bytes for the block , plus four times eight forty eight a total for this cells . |
| 4 | The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance . |
| 5 | ‘ Try to be professional about this ! ’ |
| 6 | Needless to say , there was nothing intrinsically divine about such figures . |
| 7 | They had the wealth , the power , to change this place and make it habitable for those who wished it so , and yet they did nothing . |
| 8 | They 're a little bit frail for that . |
| 9 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 10 | Read Cole , speculating on the possibility of a revival , after the Second World War , of Producer Co-operation : That is an authoritative pronouncement of the view , prevailing for many decades , of the Consumer 's Movement 's attitude towards Producer Co-operation : the rival doctrine , not quite anathema , but something very like . |
| 11 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 12 | If there was one thing not ugly and absurd about that marriage , it was a small but irreversible change in her own situation . |
| 13 | They needed no professional help with the evening 's drinking but arose magically clear-headed and eagle-eyed for each subsequent day 's golf . |
| 14 | The decision was a cruel blow for Manley , who was outstanding for most of the game , and the controversy continued after the final whistle . |
| 15 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 16 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 17 | The Catalan and Basque languages were compulsorily replaced by Castilian Spanish for all public purposes ( including speech outside the home , teaching , the press , literature and drama ) and the music , dancing and folk songs traditional in those regions were proscribed . |
| 18 | Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions . |
| 19 | ‘ Good — I 'm glad you 're alert about that . |
| 20 | The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away . |
| 21 | The shock was greatest for those socialists who had believed the rhetoric of the International . |
| 22 | The percentage of those with disabilities living outside the community is greatest for those aged 80 + where 17 per cent live in institutions ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 23 | Even where open fields remained , the methods of operation were radically changed to accommodate these new techniques , but the advantages of convertible husbandry were clearly greatest for those farmers with enclosed fields . |
| 24 | You can recover 100% of SMP paid to your employees from the total NI contributions due for all your employees in the tax month . |
| 25 | In Vologsky 's squadron , each individual pilot fell due for such a flight every twelve days on the rota system . |
| 26 | Given one week 's pay due for each whole year 's service from 22nd birthday to 41st birthday . |
| 27 | Given 1½ weeks ' pay due for each whole year 's service from 41st birthday to retirement . |
| 28 | Relief will not be due for any payments made direct to children of the marriage or any previous marriage . |
| 29 | He was due for some unpleasant surprises , she felt . |
| 30 | But is n't it due for some extensive reform ? |