Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His home was ever open , a centre of wisdom and influence for decades ; admired even by cabinet ministers from Britain . |
| 2 | If I am lucky , and the weather is compatible with fish-spotting , I should see signs of the carp when they push through weedbeds and hump through the surface , or mudclouds and bubbles when they root in the bottom . |
| 3 | Advances in medical science have made possible extensive treatment , by medical , surgical and rehabilitative techniques , which can remedy some defects and compensate for others . |
| 4 | Where a coaxial system serves numerous homes over a large area , high quality low-noise cable must be used with amplifiers to boost the signal and compensate for losses . |
| 5 | The exuberance of their music and sincerity of their worship readily compensate for flaws in performance or thin theological content . |
| 6 | The trek proves long and arduous , with casualties mounting as they forge through swamps and mountains before finally breaking into the Dalek city . |
| 7 | So he will talk up his investment tax credits and a break on capital gains tax for shares held in some small companies for at least five years . |
| 8 | We pray for those who suffer as prisoners without trial ; for hostages , for deported people , for all victims of violence in this land and in the countries from which we come ; may they be comforted and delivered ; |
| 9 | Jamaicans , Filipinos , Vietnamese , Pakistanis , Uruguayans , Guatemalans , Chinese , Portuguese and Italians jostle for seats and hang from the straps along with remnants of the Anglo population like me . |
| 10 | The scores used by the computational systems discriminate between hypotheses in two ways . |
| 11 | Rhesus monkeys readily discriminate between objects and scenes on the basis of their visual appearance . |
| 12 | Salesmen discriminate between clients in their own ways . |
| 13 | I 'm very careful never to admire things or enthuse about things . |
| 14 | Kangaroos can sustain speeds of up to 25 km/h for long periods ; but what they gain in the springs , they lose as pendulums . |
| 15 | Distinguish between amounts receivable for services as directors and other amounts receivable for management of the company . |
| 16 | A third variant is that the ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ qualities are apportioned to different people outside , in much the same way as children believe in and distinguish between fairies and witches , cowboys and Indians , empires of good and evil . |
| 17 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) Evaluating evidence — ability to : distinguish between facts , assumptions , inferences and hypotheses and value judgements ; distinguish between valid and invalid conclusions , verifiable and non-verifiable information , relevant and irrelevant material , compare information and recognise contradictions . |
| 19 | We do n't believe that pension rights should be undermined by privatization or by C C T. We agree with motion three seven one but add one qualification the best way to provide protection for members threatened in this way is to force the government to honour its obligations under European law and push for pensions to be included in the regulations . |
| 20 | Whilst it is accepted that the department has done exceptionally well in getting every member of the school who does Art to provide themselves with pencils , rubbers and sketch pads , it is felt that the time is now right for the department to expand this and push for pupils to provide paints for themselves . |
| 21 | FLYING wingers John Hendrie and Stuart Ripley swapped starring roles in Middlesbrough 's promotion push for rolls of wallpaper yesterday . |
| 22 | That odd , bitter , comradely crack about men from Kate Armstrong ? |
| 23 | AT&T Co is chasing after British Telecommunications Plc and its Syncordia Corp initiative at breakneck speed with its WorldSource seamless telecommunications service for multinationals and its WorldPartners Association of supporting phone companies ( CI No 2,176 ) . |
| 24 | Times shown in heavy type denote through services . |
| 25 | Is your kitchen the sort of place where family and friends congregate for chats as a matter of course . |
| 26 | Secondly , the geographical zones for which the Census is produced also change between Censuses . |
| 27 | Through the sequence the source voltage is being increased with all else held constant ; the x- and y-scales change between pictures , not necessarily in proportion . |
| 28 | It ordered the state authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan to " enter into talks immediately to conclude an inter-republican treaty on restoring trust and accord between peoples , proceeding from the principles of equality of rights and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of both republics " [ for February USSR Supreme Soviet debate on Transcaucasia see p. 37257 ] . |
| 29 | The distinction which each of these writers make between forms of the state provide the normativist with a justification for viewing the positive state as a degenerate form . |
| 30 | The difference between the two poets corresponds ( not quite exactly , because the nature and history of French verse differs so greatly from English ) to the distinction that the French make between vers libre and vers libéré ; between , we may say , free verse and freed verse . |