Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 2 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 3 | Veritas has arranged to support Destiny with a cut-down version of its file system dubbed the Journaling File System and aimed at the desktop : the full product will come along later as a server upgrade . |
| 4 | In practical terms the 2-cell block phenomenon means that studies of the 1-cell to 2-cell transition including in vitro fertilization are best undertaken using eggs from a non-blocking strain [ although the main features of development at this stage do not differ qualitatively between eggs from blocking and non-blocking strains ( 18 ) ] . |
| 5 | Finance houses sought to promote business in a responsible manner , recognizing that only in that way would they be promoting profitable business . |
| 6 | The 51-country Asian Development Bank 's annual meeting in Vancouver , Canada , on April 24-26 failed to agree terms for a controversial replenishment of its soft loan window , the Asian Development Fund [ see p. 35206 for last replenishment in 1986 ] . |
| 7 | In reading , lexical access involves using information from a printed word to gain access to that word 's entry in the mental lexicon . |
| 8 | An offer made to acquire control of a public company . |
| 9 | The company is due to unveil its high-end SparcStation 10 models tomorrow , and will bring them out at substantially reduced price points to stimulate growth of a high-powered multitasking and multiprocessing desktop marketplace . |
| 10 | When assessing the needs of a disabled person ( including an elderly person with disabilities ) who receives a substantial amount of care regularly from someone not employed by the local authority , the authority is required to : ‘ have regard to the ability of that person to continue to provide help on a regular basis ’ . |
| 11 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 12 | Major international telecommunications service providers are teaming under the auspices of the Network Management Forum to agree purchasing specifications for an open , standardised computing environment to support their network , service and business management needs — and with annual spending of $20,000m a year on computer systems , the parties involved have the muscle to impose any standard they set . |
| 13 | The 10th UN-IAEA inspection on Feb. 3-13 into Iraq 's nuclear weapons failed to find evidence of a suspected secret underground plutonium facility capable of supplying several nuclear warheads a year . |
| 14 | China also agreed to provide Vietnam with an interest-free loan equivalent to US$14,000,000 . |
| 15 | If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index . |
| 16 | According to Rhodes ( 1988 , p. 130 ) one main reason is that the Thatcher government has developed quangos as a convenient vehicle for bypassing what it perceived ( particularly in urban areas ) as a hostile and recalcitrant local government system . |
| 17 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 18 | In recent months the company , based in Birstall , West Yorkshire , has fallen victim to a false accounting incident at a subsidiary as well as profits downgradings by analysts and a flurry of rumours concerning the sales of large blocs of shares . |
| 19 | His persistent returns to the fray helped to drive Thomson to an early grave-though not before he had succeeded in getting Palmer promoted out of Nigeria . |
| 20 | Emma Lawson , formerly at ABC , has joined Pavilion as a senior editor . |
| 21 | The Object Management Group has joined the Open Software Foundation and the OSF has joined OMG in a reciprocal membership deal . |
| 22 | This resulted in farce : ‘ I have never forgotten seeing footage of a British manager which began on his moccasined feet , wafted over his monogrammed door mat , and ended up opposite the sofa on which lounged five of his charges , scowling greasily ’ . |
| 23 | The episode has placed Alan in a difficult position . |
| 24 | A Government inspector has given permission for a mixed development including a food superstore on land formerly occupied by Octavius Atykinson at Starbeck , Harrogate , following a public inquiry and local plan inquiry . |
| 25 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 26 | The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption . |
| 27 | By 1985 this businesslike severity has given way to a white pie-frill collared blouse from Laura Ashley . |
| 28 | The sombre atmosphere which still prevails in more solidly Christian countries has given way to a festive mood . |
| 29 | That room still exists and although the crucifix has given way to an omnidimensional cross cum globe , for twenty minutes every morning , before our regular sessions started , Christopher Pilkington led a quiet period of meditative prayer . |
| 30 | The question whether financing government expenditure by borrowing rather than taxation imposes a greater burden on future generations has given rise to a great deal of confusion among laymen and , at a more esoteric , if not more useful , level , among economists . |