Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This only comes as a shock if we insist on seeing Theo in terms of sainthood .
2 This naturally leads to a lessening of tension in the body .
3 For example , they show an early preference for face-like configurations compared with other equally complex geometrical designs , and this soon develops into an interest in real faces .
4 Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena .
5 This usually results in a tableau which is primal or dual infeasible and the dual or standard simplex method is used to restore optimality .
6 However , this usually leads to a proliferation of costs as well as inefficient working , as time and money are spent in linking the activities of the various sites .
7 The problem , however , is that though Sartre produces a provocative analysis of why Stalin was successful , this imperceptibly slides into an account of why Stalin had to do what he did , to the extent that Sartre appears to justify his actions according to the particular necessities of his historical circumstances .
8 This also applies to a person who is incapable of understanding questions or giving a proper answer by reason of mental incapacity or permanent or temporary disability .
9 This also applies to an application for any order which would have the effect of varying or discharging an existing order .
10 This also applies in a state socialist society where the government can control the economy by limitation or expansion of production , which should ( in theory ) match demand .
11 This probably sounds like a run-up to a full-scale attack on Oxford and academic knowledge .
12 So , although it 's one of the most standard reproaches against philosophy , that it 's inconclusive , I think this probably springs from a misconception of what human beings are , and what the possibilities of human intellectual self-consciousness can really be .
13 This inevitably results in a kind of Adorn Ian modernism , in which ‘ progressive ’ form acts as social critique , modified by a quasi-Benjaminian view of technical mediation , which ultimately recreates these modernists as a new ‘ folk ’ .
14 This inevitably leads to a climate in which the likelihood of giving not only money but also one 's time is reduced .
15 With pull-out load torque applied the system is in unstable equilibrium , since any small increase in load retards the rotor , but this now leads to a reduction in motor torque .
16 This really looks like a castle , ’ she said with some satisfaction .
17 Self-selection enables the customer to inspect goods without pressure , and this often results in an impulse purchase .
18 In British and North American English this often consists of a pre-sequence which signals impending closure , echoed by the other participant , followed by farewells , like this :
19 Emotional abuse may be the underlying trauma ( and this often comes with a fear of being physically harmed ) .
20 This sometimes leads to a resentment of the teachers responsible for guiding the youth into sport , particularly if it becomes obvious that the interest in the youth was purely because of his sporting success .
21 This then results in a re-assembly of the mechanism as shown in Figure 7.30 .
22 This again leads to a situation resembling Figure 6.11 ( c ) from which the Moon accretes .
23 Only one from you dear just seems like a lot
24 The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 re-enacts the earlier legislation and specifically defines insider dealing which is when an individual knowingly transacts in a security whilst in possession of unpublished price sensitive information relating to that security .
25 The head of the deceased then appears on a television screen which is tastefully draped in white silk and discreetly illuminated at night .
26 There were two other mills further up the stream , Tocknells , which has long been demolished and Eddels , that still survives as a house .
27 As my friend David Jessel has pointed out , even if 99 per cent of all criminal convictions are correct , that still leaves in a prison population of 40,000 some 400 who have no business being there ; and I can not imagine any experience more demoralizing than to be locked up for years for a crime one did n't commit .
28 That hardly sounds like a problem when there are only two of us , ’ he drawled sardonically .
29 Out here , being white still counts for a lot .
30 But a willingness to accept claims about the functional relations between the properties of social.wholes and those of individuals as explanatory also stems from a sympathy with the underlying interest of holism .
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