Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 2 | Following the very important increase last year , which focused especially on the needs of those in nursing homes in the light of the survey information that we had received , the increase next April will give an additional £15 a week across virtually all the main categories and with an even larger increase , of £20 a week for two residential care categories — the very dependent elderly and the mentally handicapped — which together account for nearly two fifths of all residential care cases on income support . |
| 3 | Pubs and hotels together account for around 60 per cent of all sales . |
| 4 | Thirty-one mosaics are listed below which together account for almost all significant remains of fourth century mosaic in the north east . |
| 5 | But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction . |
| 6 | Fewer dollars equals less support for internationally related communication projects . |
| 7 | Unless mechanical recording is used , sociologists necessarily invent at least some of what they report . |
| 8 | Having an operation naturally entails feelings of anxiety , so talk to as many professional people as you can — doctors , nurses , the anaesthetist when he comes to visit you — to reassure yourself . |
| 9 | While Noah used to make his animals do dog-paddles behind the boat for as long as two hours to build up their stamina , modern-day swimming coaches apparently believe in relatively short intensive sessions . |
| 10 | The trouble is that with more training some of the staff quite naturally move to more lucrative jobs . |
| 11 | But you ca n't do everything all at once , so start with just one thing — maybe your attitude to teachers , or your willingness to speak up for Jesus : whatever is a problem for you at the moment — and get stuck into sorting that one thing out . |
| 12 | And then wages then for a labourer that er er assistants and stuff like that we only come to about two pound . |
| 13 | So come over here one at a time . |
| 14 | By the 1840s abolitionists in England had long experience in less public ways of reaching into the government and its administrative arms . |
| 15 | Onshore surveys include much work with very practical applications . |
| 16 | The application of sophisticated mathematical techniques and other Blue Skies approaches in engineering may come about through collaboration , but the important point to realise is that once formal or rigorous methods have been developed and applied successfully in one field of engineering , they may be applicable , suitably modified , to others and perhaps lead to more reliable specifications and designs in general . |
| 17 | Children generally suffer from too much control between school and television and do not spend enough time developing on their own . |
| 18 | Those who do use it generally make at least three or four substantial purchases on credit each year ( Appendix I , Table 7 ) . |
| 19 | To underline the point I thought I 'd show you this four year average one thing that the exercise shows is that between them our book , entertainment and fine china businesses normally account for about seven percent of Pearson 's annual profit in their first half and for about thirty three percent of our profit in the full year . |
| 20 | I normally skip at least one day every two weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ The field has been open to females only during the past year but we soon expect at least 10 per cent of dog-training course applicants will be female . ’ |
| 22 | When approached more rigorously , however , difficulties and disagreements soon appear from both political and practical perspectives . |
| 23 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 24 | COVER : Just look at how harsh and tight that bank is . |
| 25 | Right , it was n't C , I do n't think anybody got that wrong actually , erm , just occasionally you normally get at least one or two people want to put C , because they know that waiver of premiums is twenty six weeks on every other plan . |
| 26 | Sessions generally last for about 40 minutes and are required , by necessity , on a regular basis . |
| 27 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 28 | Never mind the quality — just go for as many ideas as possible . |
| 29 | So-called compression methods generally apply to particularly wasteful areas of the structure , and reduce , or compress , these areas to use smaller amounts of memory ( Knuth , 1973 ) . |
| 30 | D' ya know what , whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now , I just think about how much I spent at home . |