Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 2 | Passengers clocked up bonus points by flying with a particular airline , but these could be cashed in only with the same airline . |
| 3 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 4 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 5 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 6 | This chapter begins by looking at the formation of groups , and the emergence of roles , norms and control devices . |
| 7 | I know how much hard work goes into looking after a baby and I just ca n't wait . |
| 8 | Housing in rural areas differs from housing in the urban areas . |
| 9 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 10 | To my mind , the answer to the question depends on ascertaining in the context of the Act as a whole what is the administration referred to . |
| 11 | make test checks on posting to the accounts from records of receipts and payments ; |
| 12 | A similar provision exists with regard to the community charge . |
| 13 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 14 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 15 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 16 | We leave , and Marianne stays behind picking at a fruit salad . |
| 17 | However , it is interesting because of its paradoxical nature ; the apparent lack of behavioural responsiveness actually conceals very much heightened psychological and physiological sensitivity , with which the sufferer copes by withdrawing into the inactivity of catatonic stupor . |
| 18 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 19 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 20 | In either case the presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere and the lithosphere as a whole becomes thinner ( Fig. 4.5(B) ) . |
| 21 | The very foundation of our education rests in meeting under a common roof , whether it be the education of the classroom , the church or citizenship . |
| 22 | Drill holes and fit the wall plugs before screwing on the shower slider rail or bracket ( see How to drill through tiles in best , issue 20/91 ) . |
| 23 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 24 | Tit for Tat begins by cooperating on the first move and thereafter simply copies the previous move of the other player . |
| 25 | You can remove your name from direct mailing lists by writing to the Mailing Preference Service , Freepost 22 , London W1E 7EZ . |
| 26 | Occasionally a party is defied , and a rejected and disgruntled postulant insists on standing as an independent . |
| 27 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 28 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |
| 29 | This dislike of their bodies leads to fasting between the episodes of overeating and sufferers commonly have a sense of failure , low self-esteem and loss of control . |
| 30 | DESENSITIZING THE POSITIVE SUPPORTING ACTION ; THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST CONCENTRATES ON LENGTHENING OF THE SOLE OF THE FOOT AND ACHILLES TENDON . |