Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is . |
| 2 | Esda is effectively negated because the plastic sheet ensures that no indentation is left on underlying pages . |
| 3 | It is also easier to defeat procedural motions rather than substantive ones , the Scotland and Wales ( Devolution ) Bill being effectively halted when the timetable motion ( guillotine ) was defeated by twenty-nine in February 1977 . |
| 4 | Plekhanov next goes on to claim that the character traits of individuals , whether causally efficacious or not , are ‘ accidents ’ in relation to ‘ the historical destiny of nations ’ . |
| 5 | Here is Collimore Phillips down the right flank he was offside that was unlucky from Forest 's point of view and Collimore dumped to the ground when he played the ball away then and er he 's just holding er his shin just above his ankle there and Cooper is still in trouble from that er shoulder he injured moments ago Cooper 's all right to continue and the Forest physio Graham Myers busy treating Collimore . |
| 6 | Similarly there is no assumption that repeated use of a ruler in 4c is more demanding than single use of it in 4b , but this and similar instances need to be examined empirically to see if the task differences concerned are also difficulty factors . |
| 7 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 8 | However , under para 8(c) of FRS 1 , the UK subsidiaries may claim exemption from FRS 1 if they are wholly owned and the UK parent publishes consolidated financial statements and those consolidated financial statements include a consolidated cash flow statement dealing with the group 's cash flows . |
| 9 | It was widely reported that the UK Ministry of Defence had reserved the right to dispose of its decommissioned nuclear submarines at sea , although the UK finally voted for the proposal . |
| 10 | It was widely reported that the Republican party placed considerable pressure upon Thornburgh to contest the Senate vacancy — his Pennsylvanian background was seen as a considerable advantage — which was seen as crucial to the party 's hopes of recapturing control of the upper chamber in 1992 . |
| 11 | If it is in a smooth plastic pot , and there is insufficient root coming through to prevent movement ( i.e. the plant is pot bound ) , it should be possible to slide the pot away just enough to see if the root ball is held intact by root action . |
| 12 | There is one small river at Ebenat , but that has become so polluted that the relief workers have to bring in water by tanker . |
| 13 | Bedrooms are sparsely furnished and the dining rooms look drab . |
| 14 | Even the speaker who was to tie the whole thing together admitted that the monkey data would be put to better use in various studies on the general subject of immunoregulation . |
| 15 | The German mortaring had suddenly stopped and the Brigade Major was standing out in the open talking to an Officer when , just as suddenly , the mortars started up again , sending their bombs swishing through the trees and sending the Brigade Major diving for cover . |
| 16 | The volume was warmly received and the London Magazine published excerpts throughout 1752 . |
| 17 | Not only does it apparently have the oldest version of the entry for 1020 ( see above ) , but under 1018 it has the death of an Abingdon abbot which is not in C. Other material now in D and E was probably only added after the Abingdon chronicle reached Canterbury . |
| 18 | Thank you chair , erm many of you will perhaps know that the health authority did some pioneering work looking at different standard mortality ratios in different wards in Oxfordshire , and came up with some rather disturbing evidence that some of the wards had significantly higher incidents of death for people primarily in the forty-five to sixty-four age range than others , and Phil and myself wish to continue that work by targeting those wards with a range of measures designed to alleviate some of those health inequalities . |
| 19 | Even after the selection of this team I went home , switched on the television news , only to find that the weather forecast predicted blizzards in Scotland . |
| 20 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 21 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 22 | Many time we have set up a tank containing large and heavy items as part of the decor , only to find that the undergravel filter has either collapsed flat or broken in half . |
| 23 | There is a belief but open to much doubt that the bridge builder Teasdale supplied various canal spans for the pedestrian traffic across the River Jumna , a major tributary of the Ganges . |
| 24 | First to obviously confirm that the A G M is for the er eleventh of er November . |
| 25 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 26 | Ernie was built in the strong mould of the traditional full-back of the time , but he was cool under pressure and had a keen eye for a volleyed clearance to avert any threatening danger , so that it was entirely fitting when the Football League honoured him with a place in one of their representative sides in the autumn of 1921 . |
| 27 | If the new investment is only made after the sale proceeds are realised , the total delay could be up to three weeks . |
| 28 | We have long argued that the Post Office scheme is detrimental to the survival of townland names . |
| 29 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |
| 30 | I only hope that the police committee will actually support those and get on towards introducing them , because that is a way of using some of the people in our village communities to erm , to keep an eye on the community and see that those people that should n't go round . |