Sentence examples for the arithmetic would be from inspiring English sources

But the arithmetic would be against him.

Even were the economy to grow at the 3% a year assumed by Mr Chirac, the arithmetic would be difficult.

"What other industry" Mr. McKee asks as rhetorically as possible, "could even begin to think about a return of 44 cents on the dollar?" Although the board report excludes buildings with 10 units or fewer, there is little reason to think their arithmetic would be any different.

The prediction that performance on the mental arithmetic task would be worse in noise than in silence was not supported, but we did find that degree of neuroticism was strongly and inversely related to performance on this task when the participants were subjected to noise, but not – as we predicted – in the presence of music.

Even if parliament were to vote for such a thing, which is extremely unlikely given the parliamentary arithmetic, it would be highly impractical to arrange.

We also predicted that performance on the mental arithmetic task would be adversely affected by noise (Banbury & Berry, 1998, Expt. 1) (H2a) but that the sentence-checking task would be unaffected (Baddeley, 1968) (H2b).

The arithmetic would look less robust if commodity prices were to take another lurch downwards.

Participants were told that they were about to participate in a simple arithmetic experiment and that a word and simple arithmetic problem would be sequentially presented on the computer screen.

By the way, as a piece of thumbnail arithmetic I would be owed about $300m in royalties".

The bill is structured to allow Congress's judgment to be trumped by a Presidential veto, one that simple arithmetic suggests would be easy to sustain.

It was predicted that performance on a general intelligence test, a test of abstract reasoning, and a mental arithmetic task would be adversely affected by background sounds.