Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 2 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 3 | The thief rarely thinks of the consequences for the victim . |
| 4 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 5 | The plumber smiles broadly as he gathers up his tools and delicately tip-toes between the pools of water . |
| 6 | The general lack of compromise or provision for flexible or part-time work effectively chokes off the careers of many promising lawyers . |
| 7 | Moreover , Edmund 's association with the Welsh may also cast light on why Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa apparently refers to the battle of Assandun being followed by another at Danaskógar ( skógr = wood , forest ) . |
| 8 | Our discourse irreducibly belongs to the system of metaphysical oppositions . |
| 9 | They are frequently semi-derelict , insanitary and damp and their restoration not only contributes to the renewal of the local housing stock but provides employment for local builders and traders . |
| 10 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 11 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 12 | At the same time his status seems to have caused him to be associated with campaigns which took place after his death : the invasion of Italy by Buccelin , which rightly belongs in the reign of Theudebald , was assigned by Gregory to that of his father . |
| 13 | It has become commonplace to observe that the precious yet precarious Churchill Ian , stiff-upper-lip culture which only materializes in the midst of national adversity — underneath the arches , down in the air-raid shelters where Britannia enjoyed her finest hours — is something from which blacks are excluded . |
| 14 | This is a problem that rightfully belongs to the subject of the electrical properties of materials , so I can not say very much about it . |
| 15 | Although acid precipitation obviously refers to the process of wet deposition of acidic material on the earth 's surface , it also includes the process of dry deposition . |
| 16 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 17 | Any study of Abwehr intelligence affairs during the Second World War constantly refers to the work of SOE , the Special Operations Executive set up by British Intelligence in 1940 on Churchill 's instructions to coordinate resistance and the underground movement in Europe . ’ |
| 18 | The implications of ‘ story ’ have hardened to the extent that Federman constantly refers to the narrative as a ‘ recitation ’ , as if he were writing over earlier texts such as Beat novels . |
| 19 | Its practical bearing follows from these aims ; for by constructing concepts , forms of argument and criteria of evidence which attain some degree of objectivity and universality , political sociology , to the extent that it is diffused through society , has an effect on ideologies and on political consciousness generally , and so contributes to the shaping of political action . |
| 20 | Well it 's a very specialized boat in a sense , I mean it goes on the surface of the water and it literally goes on the surface of the water , it 's a hovercraft is a sort of a it 's a vessel which has got a skirt all round it |
| 21 | He then suddenly drops to the ground on the left knee , placing the left hand on the floor in front of him . |
| 22 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 23 | The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms . |
| 24 | That joint reading perhaps lies behind the appeal in Walahfrid 's prologue that the quest for wisdom be revived and widened " in modern times " . |
| 25 | The power of the bureaucracy merely corresponds to the power of the state as a whole and so may be quite compatible with the power ( or lack of it ) exercised elsewhere in the state apparatus . |
| 26 | But the greater birthweight variability within monozygous twins merely adds to the difficulty of distinguishing between the effects of genes and early environment , and is a further reason for distrusting estimates of heritability derived from twin studies . |
| 27 | It merely adds to the deprivation in the world . |
| 28 | Galatians 3 , 28 is quoted : ‘ There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus ’ as though sexual differences were subsumed in a common humanity which alone counts in the scheme of redemption . |
| 29 | TIP : When choosing a hair cut , avoid any thinning or razoring techniques as this only adds to the problem by making the hair lighter in weight and so ever more flyaway . |
| 30 | There are good reasons — nothing to do with prudishness — why the age of consent has been set at 16 , and the risk of cancer only adds to the dangers of Aids and unwanted pregnancies . |