Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 2 | Paul Walton , of James Capel , complained that the Chancellor did not make big enough increases in spending in the right areas . |
| 3 | The article only deals in passing with the particular issue of non-standard entry students and degree performances but argues that evidence shows that these students , and mature students in general , achieve better results than traditional students in most fields of study . |
| 4 | Ministers when they come to Committees should assume that other Ministers have read their papers and time should not be spent on an oral regurgitation of what already appears in writing in the paper . |
| 5 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 6 | ‘ But my mother always speaks of sleeping in the shelter . |
| 7 | But , because an album released in CD-I format is n't likely to set the charts alight right now , a standard CD version of the album will also be made available — when Rundgren eventually gets to signing on the dotted , that is . |
| 8 | The apparent lack of much volcanic activity over much of Mercurian history probably results from cooling of the outer mantle , because a planet with a large surface area to mass ratio should cool rather rapidly to fairly low temperatures . |
| 9 | No chipping was observed , and it would seem that damage mainly occurs through splitting of the crowns which leads to their disintegration and loss from the sample . |
| 10 | Over-ruddering causes extra drag and an extra loss of height or speed , and it often leads to stalling in the turn . |
| 11 | He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him . |
| 12 | Retaining the anal mucosa sometimes results in bleeding from the involved mucosa but discrimination may be improved by avoiding mucosectomy . |
| 13 | Comrade Preobrazhensky , however , contrives to perform such a conjuring trick : he categorically insists on the ‘ plan ’ and other good things , and at the same time even more categorically insists on abstracting from the functions of state power in the sphere of the economy . |
| 14 | A collie dog I know , who lives with my neighbours , has an old semi-deflated toy football which she never tires of carrying to the feet of any human who will kick it , for her to gallop off , retrieving it and placing it once again near one 's feet . |