Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow budget 's tax bands gave Labour the look of punitive vindictiveness : it drew the line where , realistically , it reckoned people could afford it , forgetting that in post-Thatcher Britain , people calculate their tax liabilities not on what they actually earn , but how much they hope , desire or aspire to earn in the very near future . |
| 2 | No one had asked how they were coping , or attempted to offer at the very least a listening ear . |
| 3 | With regard to women in canoeing , Lesley has some strong ideas on the subject that tend to contrast with the more feminist view . |
| 4 | Scientists in the academic community achieve recognition , advancement , and success in attracting funding by publication , whereas some of those working in industry or defence are neither encouraged nor expected to contribute to the publicly available literature ( Gilbert 1978 74 ) . |
| 5 | Scientists in the academic community achieve recognition , advancement , and success in attracting funding by publication , whereas some of those working in industry or defence are neither encouraged nor expected to contribute to the publicly available literature ( Gilbert 1978 ) . |
| 6 | The material that has fallen into the more massive of the two galaxies rekindles the quasar at its core . |
| 7 | Where differences arise , they are likely to stem from decisions that begin to vary from the previously agreed business plan . |
| 8 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 9 | Her second novel The Victim of Prejudice was published in 1799 and delineates ‘ the mischiefs that have ensued from the too great stress laid on the reputation for chastity in women ’ . |
| 10 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 11 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 12 | At last she reached the floor above the hall and began to cross to the diagonally opposite tower , grateful that there were lights here to guide her way . |
| 13 | There was still a faint hope that the ILP would accept " organizational unity " , and become submerged in the more unified and efficient Communist Party . |
| 14 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 15 | Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability . |
| 16 | Forget , he says , the fact that the people ( I am desperately trying to avoid using the words ‘ Red Indian ’ and refuse to opt for the hopelessly inadequate euphemism , Native American ) whom the Spaniards and others found had not discovered the wheel and had no draught animals . |
| 17 | The list is not comprehensive or detailed but tries to focus on the most salient points . |
| 18 | Such a construction fits the few facts given in the early biographical sources and such facts as have emerged from the recently published documentary material in a way that the traditional account does not . |