Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A positive view of the potential of the scheme in this is related to positive views about virtually all of the other issues raised in the questionnaire and vice versa . |
| 2 | However , there are doubts about how much of the Deloitte client list will be left intact once it has left the international organisation . |
| 3 | Although I endorse totally what the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) said and have doubts about how much of the debate will be reported , nevertheless , we have this privilege and opportunity , but our constituents do not . |
| 4 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 5 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 6 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 7 | The Show , which attracted crowds of over 50,000 during the four days , proved to be a good venue for the Pest Control surveyors to introduce all those in agriculture to the range and diversity of services available . |
| 8 | The Romanesque foundations of so many of the houses in this area bear witness to its size and wealth . |
| 9 | Denied parents for so much of the year , Angel had idolized Pedro . |
| 10 | All its imports could be seen as luxuries , and the Stuart government was very ready to see luxuries taxed ; as James II put it to his Parliament in 1685 , ‘ Lay it on Luxury , as chocolate , tea , coffee , East Indian commodities as not necessary for the life of man , and on wine . ’ |
| 11 | Bearing in mind then that we have only half the story , we do have some indication of the social origins of about one-fifth of the sample , enough to be regarded as reasonably representative , |
| 12 | It is a stance which dismisses the needs of over half of the members of the community and sanctions major crimes such as rape , assault , actual or grievous bodily harm and murder . |
| 13 | Loopholes had already been made in the stone walls of Gemioncourt 's huge barns which , like the buildings of so many of the isolated farms in the low countries , were joined together and protected by a high stone wall , making the whole farm into a massively strong fortress . |
| 14 | However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s . |
| 15 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 16 | The Barlow Report ( Royal Commission 1940 ) highlighted the strategic disadvantages of so much of the nation 's industry and population being concentrated in South-East England ( and within range of enemy bombers ) . |
| 17 | What were the conditions like when each of the rock series A , B and C were being formed ? |
| 18 | ‘ Well , our friend is planning to spend over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds with just one of the Sundays . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Defecting ’ , for a wasp , would mean laying eggs in too many of the flowers in a fig and pollinating too few of them . |
| 20 | It does , but the stars , although they 're moving fast by terrestrial standards , are moving very slowly by comparison with the vast distances we 're talking about , and they do n't change their distances by very much in the time that we 're watching . |
| 21 | At a formal ceremony on June 1 the two leaders signed a framework agreement on the major elements of a treaty on strategic arms reductions ( START ) , involving a reduction of each side 's long-range nuclear missiles by about one-third over a seven-year period . |
| 22 | Councillors were elected unopposed in 53 wards , more than 6% of the total , and there was a contest between the three major political groups in only 6 in every 10 wards . |
| 23 | It also represents returns from only 17 of the 34 institutions contacted , and although Roderick et al suggest that these unqualified mature students do not perform as well as qualified students , no comparative data is produced to substantiate this suggestion . |
| 24 | Deictic systems in natural languages are not arbitrarily organized around the features of just any of the many different kinds of medium and context in which languages are used . |
| 25 | Water Pollution : A Briefing for the Ethical Investor describes eight types of pollution criteria and gives details of how many of the 590 companies listed on the FTA All-Share Index fall into each category . |
| 26 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 27 | A US government report has shown that lead levels in almost one-fifth of the nation 's largest municipal water systems , including some serving Washington and suburban counties , exceed the safety standards set last year by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 28 | The loss of territorial control , with minority Russian populations in so many of the new countries , must have created a great deal of resentment , again not unlike Germany after World War l . |
| 29 | These are our comments on just some of the things on our list . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got pace and I like to take defenders on either wide down the flanks or through the middle . |