Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His genuine differences with Moscow about where authority in the communist movement should lie could be exploited to give the impression of a total break with the ideology itself . |
| 2 | I learnt something about myself , I learnt a little bit about how members of the class view me , certain physical characteristics which are habits which I try to stop . |
| 3 | Simple guidelines about only eating at the table at meal-times and not snacking may be required . |
| 4 | In general , the amounts of refluxed acid were low , the average person having acid in the oesophagus for about 3% of the recording time . |
| 5 | Understandably we hear a great deal about how increases in the very staples of life bite on those who can very often least afford those increases . |
| 6 | THE Lennox Lewis-Frank Bruno world title clash has received a single box office boost of nearly £28,000 for the fight at Cardiff Arms Park on |
| 7 | Although empathy has attracted considerable criticisms ( and perhaps a degree of misunderstanding ) a key objective in history teaching involves appreciation of how people in the past thought and felt . |
| 8 | On Wednesday night Linfield were out of the competition , beaten fairly it seemed by an aggregate score of 3-2 and facing a loss of around £15,000 on the failed European venture . |
| 9 | We have made a bid of nearly £700m for a company with a book value of £200m — we 've acknowledged there is some extra worth there , but I can not see the sort of value they are talking about in property . |
| 10 | Occupational medicine — the study of how exposures in the work-place affect workers ' health — is the main source of information here . |
| 11 | He gave a perfect demonstration of how egg on the face leads a pompous body still further into the mire . |
| 12 | With funds of about £150,000 from the district and regional councils and a similar amount from the private sector , the event ‘ just about breaks even ’ each year , a spokesman said . |
| 13 | Material culture and aesthetics are outwards manifestations of a culture , and these give an indication of how consumers in a particular culture behave . |
| 14 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 15 | It is essential when screwing a mirror to a wall that the wall is flat , and there should be a gap of around 3mm behind the mirror to allow it to ‘ breathe ’ . |
| 16 | There has to be a gap of about 0.008in. in the magnetic circuit and this is best introduced by sticking a double thickness of ordinary drafting tape to the pole faces of one of the E-cores . |
| 17 | Leave an uncovered gap of about 10mm at the top . |
| 18 | A six months subscription costs just £20 , one year £38 and two years only £70 — savings of over 50% on the cover price . |
| 19 | The latter figure reflected both the absence of costs due to taxation — UK investors having to pay stamp duty — and the abolition of fixed commissions in 1975 , leading to a cut of around 50% in the commission rates on institutional deals . |
| 20 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 21 | Bending is accompanied by an increase of these parameters to about 5° at the met box centres , and higher values towards the ends of the duplex . |
| 22 | Prices range from £1,500 to about £4,000 for the fully automatic version , with adjustable sections |
| 23 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 24 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 25 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 26 | In 1989 an additional Advanced Sign Language Training Programme , open to deaf and hearing students from all EC countries , was launched with a grant of roughly £400,000 from the European Social Fund . |
| 27 | Thus such a section placed in front of any number of correctly terminated constant-k or m-derived T-sections presents an almost constant input resistance of over 85% of the pass band . |
| 28 | The second is a reduction of almost 50% in the heat lost through your window area , resulting in overall savings in your heating bills of around 10% . |
| 29 | The agreement signed on 12 May 1977 between Glitterbest and Virgin Records gave McLaren and the Pistols an initial payment of just £15,000 for the British rights for material sufficient for one Sex Pistols album , to be paid in twelve instalments . |
| 30 | Unsecured creditors should agree to accept a down payment of around 35p in the pound for money due to them , and to take the balance in redeemable convertible preference shares in Prior Harwin , to be paid off in four years ' time . |