Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's on to the ball before anyone else , but he conserves the energy of his horses . ’ |
| 2 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 3 | The resulting poverty of the peasantry , who must find work in two different sectors to survive , limits their spending power and therefore discourages the purchase of consumer goods . |
| 4 | Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion . |
| 5 | Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject . |
| 6 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 7 | It also discourages the opposition from closing him down . |
| 8 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 9 | The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights . |
| 10 | Existing structure plan in short is erm set out in such a way that it pos positively discourages the accommodation of inward investment on a large scale . |
| 11 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 12 | For it neglects the possibility that , by studying the conjectures and procedures of social scientists , we might arrive at a richer and enlarged conception of social explanation . |
| 13 | In other words , the cereal-packet image not only neglects the diversity of family forms at any one time , it also obscures the changes that all families go through . |
| 14 | In isolation , Williamson 's discussion neglects the effects of organizational changes on distribution and monopoly power . |
| 15 | The foregoing analysis neglects the effects of firms ' other competitive variables such as product quality , product range and product differentiation . |
| 16 | But the common assumption that Pericles ' war strategy meant the total evacuation of Attica neglects the evidence for fortifications in his time , not all of which , surely , were abandoned in 431 ( see further p. 128 ) . |
| 17 | Another tradition , focusing on psychosocial factors , typically de-emphasises or neglects the role of these established risk factors . |
| 18 | But this neglects the force of Althusser 's emphasis on Marxism as itself a theoretical practice with its own history of epistemological self-correction , a possibility derived from the work of the mathematician Jean Cavaillès , who stressed the degree to which the history of mathematics , particularly set theory , could be accounted for by the dialectical development of the concept . |
| 19 | His deficit arises in a subsequent stage of attending to these figures , at which he neglects the left of figures wherever they appear , and thus can not judge explicitly whether they are symmetrical about the vertical . |
| 20 | If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers . |
| 21 | To say that a mother is ‘ permissive ’ neglects the fact that her attitude may vary from one area of behaviour to another : she may be highly permissive about behaviour towards visitors and yet utterly intolerant when it comes to toileting . |
| 22 | Such a phrase neglects the fact that the attack on the was a European literary fashion and that the Spanish was undergoing a complex change , which was later to allow it to revive some of its social and political influence . |
| 23 | This neglects the fact that there may be more efficient and effective ways of achieving system objectives which remain unconsidered . |
| 24 | That is understandable , but it neglects the fact that press freedom is an issue for more than just the press . |
| 25 | At the top of the screen blinks the word ’ menu ’ and beneath this list winks out in blinding-white neon letters on the black display- keyboards , horns , endless types of drums . |
| 26 | There is a new picture spinner which flags the PPA recommended titles , and a new ‘ turn the wheel ’ directory to the titles will be included in a display pack that offers show-cards , posters , bags and balloons . |
| 27 | The Sandinista Revolution ousts the Somoza dictatorship . |
| 28 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 29 | CD is comparing himself as narrator to someone following a reel which unwinds the thread of the story from itself as it rolls along in front of him . |
| 30 | The slicer who unwinds the body too early will attack the ball from out-to-in . |