Example sentences of "[vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
2 | For instance , man — or perhaps here I should say men — lack the huge canine teeth which distinguish the male great apes . |
3 | Distinctive guitar riffs and Ian Telfer 's racy fiddle runs distinguish the powerful , literate songs — all their own , save for a punk-folk thrashing of Pete Seeger 's politically correct tour of Welsh mining communities , pit closures giving a metaphorical edge to the accusing refrain ‘ who killed the miners ? ’ . |
4 | It is thus quite difficult to ; distinguish the various princes of the family of Augustus . |
5 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
6 | He could hear John breathing , and in the distance , distinguish the dim shape of the sapper . |
7 | If uniforms distinguish the different grades of nursing and domestic staff , then this is useful information for the nurse to communicate to the patient . |
8 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
9 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
10 | Two main differences , besides the obvious ones of speed , scale and aspirations , distinguish the French strike waves from the Italian . |
11 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
12 | In the previous chapter we identified the major variables which influence the current account of the balance of payments and examined how automatic and discretionary adjustments operate to rectify payments imbalances . |
13 | How far do select committees influence the general atmosphere in the House of Commons ? |
14 | The nature of the economic system and the conflicts within it influence the changing rules of the game . |
15 | The doctor 's expectations as to how the elderly patient should behave influence the actual behaviour of the elderly patient by non-verbal communication . ’ |
16 | Whichever factors influence the calving pattern , be it Autumn or Spring , each will have its own problems . |
17 | — to bias the competition in the network and influence the stable states ; |
18 | The variety of stresses that affect biological systems and influence the immune system 's potentiality are as follows : |
19 | In terms of policy influence the New Right captured the intellectual and political high ground in Britain and many other countries throughout the 1980s . |
20 | The target groups for a day hospital for dementing patients would be the 3 lowest categories — C , D and E. All category E patients would be included as well as a proportion of those in group D and a smaller proportion of group C. Although inevitably factors such as level of agreement to use day hospital facilities and the frequency of attendance of patients influence the final figure , 7–9 day places is not an unrealistic figure , though this exceeds current nationally derived guidelines . |
21 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |
22 | This data enables us to draw clear conclusions concerning the presence of B II conformations within the dodecamer under study and also points to more general rules which influence the probable appearance of such conformations within other sequences . |
23 | Less obvious , but equally important factors concern the economic and market distortions which influence the comparative disadvantage of many areas . |
24 | Humans , when reading , often miss spelling errors , because their expectations of what the text should say , influence the visual system , so that they read the intended word , rather than what is actually in front of them . |
25 | They influence the pituitary gland , promote male characteristics and may affect menstruation . |
26 | It is by following up such topics that this subject can truly come alive for the reader — banking and finance ( domestic or international ) influence the everyday life of most people . |
27 | We can only break our of this vicious circle by understanding the factors that influence the dietary choices we make . |
28 | On this account , several types of information influence the on-line interpretation of anaphors , though for any particular kind of anaphor one type of information predominates in determining considered judgements . |
29 | POU domain genes encode a family of highly conserved transacting factors that influence the transcriptional activity of several cell type-specific and ubiquitous genes . |
30 | They are watertight except that REPRODUCTION passes gene values across to DEVELOPMENT , where they influence the growing rules . |