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

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1 But they are most unlikely to do so — and herein lies part of the explanation for Labour 's election defeat , and one of its greatest problems for the future .
2 Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms .
3 As far as housing is concerned , focusing attention on the disruptive social effects of the newcomers alone diverts attention from the fact that rural housing is not only a matter of ( increasing ) demand , but of supply and need .
4 By solving a physiological conundrum Hubel and Wiesel immediately created a psychological puzzle : how is visual perception possible in a system that only relays information about the location and orientation of edges ?
5 Like every illustration , of course , it only goes part of the way in satisfying our minds .
6 ( a ) Retirement and expulsion As explained in earlier chapters of this book , where no express provision is contained in a partnership agreement or satisfactory arrangements can not be agreed to meet the particular circumstances of the partner concerned , the Partnership Act only offers dissolution as the answer to what to do with a partner whose continued presence in the firm is unwanted by his co-partners .
7 This not only adds power to the punch , but also gives the karateka a second strike in readiness , should it be needed .
8 This reduction in natural ventilation not only causes trouble within the house , but also can affect its structure , and one problem area is the roof space .
9 She is on the Speaker 's panel of chairmen for Commons committees , so has experience of the chair .
10 Then , just as the clock , and clocks like it , have a certain inner mechanical constitution from which these features arise , so has gold in the view of those who adopted the corpuscular hypothesis .
11 He said of the Nicaraguan literacy campaign : ‘ literacy only has meaning in a society undergoing revolutionary change ’ .
12 When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia .
13 Wealth-holders are faced with the need to keep as little of their savings as possible in the form of cash or current accounts in banks because money in these forms earns no interest and so loses value in a period of inflation .
14 Note that although some of the correlations calculated for this study appear to be markedly different to those observed in the Groeger and Chapman study , the difference between correlations only reaches significance in the case of the correlation between risk and normality ( z=2.64 , p<0.01 ) .
15 Working-class action in the economic sphere , through the trade unions , necessarily takes place in the context of a factual interdependence between employers and workers , and this interdependence is reinforced by the institutionalization of industrial conflict .
16 The section only requires residence with the tenant for the period of 12 months and I see no justification for implying any other requirement .
17 These will be excluded from the new scientific community and will perhaps takes refuge in a philosophy department .
18 A major technical worry about the PWR design was what would happen if a leak should occur in the high-pressure water-cooling circuit which constantly withdraws heat from the reactor core .
19 Answer machine only takes quarter of an hour
20 Design really only takes place from the conception of an idea through to when it can be seen as a fully developed and workable solution .
21 Send in the form at any time during the year , but it only takes effect at the beginning of the next tax year , in April .
22 Overall , the results suggest that even for this client group ( who are traditionally the most difficult to place ) small staffed homes can provide improved client experience as measured by engagement in meaningful activity ; but that to do so requires attention to the quality of staff performance as well as to basic material and social resources .
23 In terms of client activity patterns , the overall results suggest that even for people who , in addition to their severe or profound learning disability , have very serious challenging behaviour , small staffed homes can provide improved client experience as measured by engagement in meaningful activity ; but that to do so requires attention to the quality of staff performance as well as to basic material and social resources .
24 Jacob Burckhardt sensibly avoids pedantry about a starting date , but stresses the revival of antiquity as a main characteristic of the period .
25 Edito r , — C J McCullough rightly draws attention to the part that the royal colleges might play in a reassessment of the present system of delivering health care .
26 I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) .
27 He rightly draws attention to the fact that it is not necessarily always one side that sometimes breaches the watchkeeping agreements and regulations .
28 For example , graphite only conducts electricity in the direction along its layers .
29 It is unlikely to be the transfer of a business as a going concern if the purchaser merely completes work for the vendor after completion under a specific contract with the vendor ( Melon v Hector Powe Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 313 ) .
30 On the other hand the structural analysis of the language only tells part of the story ; the question how structural features contribute to the text 's overall effect still remains to be answered by the critic .
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