Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Morrissey and Marr realise the degree of luck involved is still subject to some speculation , for the combination was of four very diverse musical influences . |
| 2 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 3 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 4 | Probably some always breed , although this is very infrequently proved , and the numbers of pairs involved is very difficult to estimate . |
| 5 | The measure of income employed is therefore an imperfect indicator of comprehensive income , and this in turn is not truly equivalent to ‘ ability to pay ’ . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that there are an enormous number of institutions doing major work in this area whose views are not recorded here , and the proportion of institutions represented is reasonably high for a postal survey . |
| 7 | While the number of programmes undertaken is not in itself an indicator of quality or effectiveness , it may be assumed that undertaking relatively little , or virtually no planned systematic training , is certain to be ineffective . |
| 8 | But , as you will realise , the amount of money involved is not likely to be very large . |
| 9 | The ANOVA for the different models of regression tested is very explicit . |
| 10 | The list of observed bands ( Table 5.12 ) shows that all the IR bands observed coincide with Raman bands ( within 20 cm -1 , which is close enough considering that IR and Raman spectra are of different phases ) , and the number of Raman bands is indeed nine . |
| 11 | The number of cross-tabulations involved is very large , and significant trends are easily lost . |
| 12 | Both nationalized industries and local authorities publish a good deal of information on their various and diverse activities ( see chapters 8 and 10 ) In Type A nonprofit organizations the level of revenue raised is often regarded as indicative of the value that recipients place on an organization 's services . |
| 13 | This is approximately the same number as occur in Australia where the population is , of course , much smaller but the number of aircraft registered is approximately the same . |
| 14 | The tremendous disadvantage is , however , that when the drugs are stopped , the amount of weight regained is almost exactly equal to that lost , and long-term loss from short-term use of appetite-suppressant drugs has yet to be demonstrated . |
| 15 | The virus of herpes simplex is probably the most common human viral parasite after that responsible for the common cold . |
| 16 | Now , the number of quiffs raised is not an indication of how well that job went through the companies or erm , because quiffs could be raised quite minor things like one person forgetting to put something on a form or a form not being photocopied , or procedure changes or others |
| 17 | The range and scale of discovery sought is not perhaps strictly relevant , but in practice courts were more ready to allow the use of discovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when relatively modest demands were made . |
| 18 | A bottle of Horace Bent 's quite passable claret for the jolliest entry … |
| 19 | Argument along this line reinforces the claim that the injustice of B's position is not compatible with obligations under the European Convention . |
| 20 | The question of quantity used is obviously intimately related to the way a given individual finances his or her habit , a perspective which will be taken up in Chapter 7 . |
| 21 | For reasons of economy the population of individuals approached is usually a small sample of the total relevant population . |
| 22 | As shown above , direct comparison between the different types of investigation used is not possible and ony immunohistochemical techniques provide direct demonstration that the tumour cells do indeed contain xenobiotic metabolising enzymes . |
| 23 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 24 | The number of scintillations produced is directly proportional to the number of ATP molecules present . |
| 25 | The use made of resources allocated is as important as the extent of the original allocation : it can not be assumed that budgeting money or designating a staff member as training officer , will ensure more than nominal training unless there is more than nominal commitment to the concept that systematic training should be integral to library management . |
| 26 | Top of backswing Over-swinging is not necessarily the reason you top , but it wo n't help either . |
| 27 | However , it must be recognised that the level of service provided is substantially above that provided by other local authority mental health services . ’ |
| 28 | Another feature of measurement in science worth noting is that although there are thousands of measuring instruments in daily use , the number of dimensions measured is actually quite small . |
| 29 | This equation is merely a formal statement of the idea that the quantity of output supplied is primarily determined by the local price relative to suppliers ' expectations of the economy-wide average price of output . |
| 30 | The small cylinder of sample removed is then sliced , like a loaf of bread , and the slices are used for the TL measurements . |