Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 2 | Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you . |
| 3 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 4 | At Cologne we turned for home , circling the great cathedral at what felt like an angle of forty five degrees . |
| 5 | Part of the usability studies that WordPerfect has done on Presentations has surfaced in the setup options. , Wherever it 's possible , the program can be set to auto-select the correct driver for whatever option you 're configuring . |
| 6 | We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ . |
| 7 | But the myriad electronic images and printed words that pour in daily from the Balkan war zone can not convey the whole truth about what is going on there . |
| 8 | In many states , the political framework could be described as ‘ constitutional monarchy ’ , but only Spain and Sweden shared the two-party conflict with which Great Britain seemed to make the system work . |
| 9 | Lanarkshire development agency now fulfils the co-ordinating role to which my hon. Friend referred . |
| 10 | It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security . |
| 11 | A footpath system runs around the island and we are anxious that visitors stick to the pathways in order to preserve the fragile environment in which the birds live . |
| 12 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 13 | Method B corrects for this overestimate by using the average age at which women give birth , which in England and Wales between 1950 and 1990 was 27.1 years . |
| 14 | On May 31 , 1990 , the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ( Forces de libération africaine de Mauritanie — FLAM ) , a black Mauritanian opposition movement committed to armed struggle against the ruling CMSN , accused Mali of assisting the Mauritanian government in what it called " genocidal racism " against blacks . |
| 15 | It is perhaps audacious , given the undeniable uncertainty in which we find ourselves in thinking of consciousness , but it may be possible to regard this mutual dependency as a matter of nomic correlation of one of the kinds specified earlier ( 1.5 ) , although nomic connection of a uniquely primitive character . |
| 16 | But , given the low base from which the Liberal Democrat party began its struggle for recognition , he has achieved a great deal . |
| 17 | Given the low base from which much UK industry starts , this implies substantial job generation for technical experts who can develop competence in selling and marketing . |
| 18 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 19 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 20 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 21 | It will require extensive amendment to the Bill , but given the Committee 's progress in considering part I , and given the positive way in which Opposition Members have put their case , I am happy to undertake to table amendments on Report to keep the option open to establish a funding council for further education . ’ |
| 22 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 23 | They denote the high regard in which professionals are held and reflect the value of their contribution to society . |
| 24 | Indeed , Emile Burns ' survey of the councils of action , after the dispute , revealed the great extent to which they were badly organized and the degree to which in Middlesborough , for instance , ‘ each trade acted on its own ’ . |
| 25 | Protest was silenced and it was only the new mood of glasnost in the second half of the 1980s which revealed the full extent of what had happened . |
| 26 | The other committees are convened only when necessary to conduct the special business for which they are appointed . |
| 27 | The first demarcation is between what is and is not ‘ higher education ’ ; this constitutes the general boundary within which knowledge and curricula are structured . |
| 28 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 29 | In the postwar euphoria big crowds flocked regularly to the Oval to see the attacking cricket on which Surridge insisted . |
| 30 | It was a shock to see the bare evidence of what that kind of captivity could do to a man , and feel the sense of despair at what he had lost . |