Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there tasks in which children partly or wholly fail to understand the language which the teacher is using ? |
| 2 | Too much nitrogen encourages an abundance of leaf tissue that is not balanced by enhanced root activity to support it , or enough potash to keep the plant structure hard . |
| 3 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 4 | Suppose , for example , that the police seek to remove a person 's clothing , or to take fingerprints when they are not authorised to do so , or persistently seek to question a person who makes it plain that he has no wish to answer , or seek to enter a house when they have no search warrant or a defective one . |
| 5 | Few organizations however formally acknowledge it , or deliberately try to develop the coaching role . |
| 6 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 7 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 8 | The whole affair , however , was symptomatic of the consistent refusal of planning staffs to understand or even try to appreciate the potential of the SAS , encamped within easy striking distance of the enemy 's lines of communication . |
| 9 | Sometimes volunteers alternate between normal and long sleeps ( lasting 16 rather than 8 hours , for example ) or even appear to adopt a sleep/wake cycle that lasts about 50 rather than 25 hours . |
| 10 | If a student asks a question to which the tutor can not give a satisfactory answer on the spur of the moment , he/she should make no attempt to bluff but frankly admit ignorance , and , possibly with the help of the class , set to work to find out the answer , or else undertake to find the answer for the next class . |
| 11 | In the absence of a firm formula , the parties will either tie themselves to a fixed price for the duration of the agreement ( which is clearly usually undesirable ) or else have to provide an agreement with a shorter duration , but with an option of renewal if new prices can be agreed . |
| 12 | It comes about simply through each gene being selected by virtue of its compatibility with the other genes that already happen to dominate the population . |
| 13 | But we almost got down to saying the other day that probably need to have an action plan or a structure for the pre-meeting as well . |
| 14 | An island-driving algorithm will explore those paths that ultimately fail to match the beginning and ending of the utterance . |
| 15 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
| 16 | The Authors jointly and severally agree to indemnify the Publisher against loss , injury or damage ( including damages for loss of profits and all legal costs and expenses and any compensation costs and disbursements paid by the Publisher to compromise or settle any claim ) occasioned to the Publisher by any claim , action or threatened proceedings arising our of a breach or violation of the warranty in the preceding sub-clause a ) PROVIDED THAT such damages , costs and expenses are incurred pursuant to the judgement of a court of competent jurisdiction or settlement reached with the Company 's prior written consent , which consent will not be withheld or delayed unreasonably . |
| 17 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 18 | These plants absorb the carbon dioxide released by the corals and so help to keep the water oxygenated . |
| 19 | Catalysts remove most of the hydrocarbon component of this soot and so help to remove an area of risk . |
| 20 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 21 | The implications of this approach for advertising personnel are considerable , and the best way to grasp what this means is to examine who works in advertising , and so begin to understand the hierarchy or power structures . |
| 22 | Such closures should provide a source of staff , capital and revenue to support the development of the new pattern of health services , including community psychiatric nursing , for the mentally ill and perhaps help to support the development of services provided by local authorities . |
| 23 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 24 | The shroud is usually knotted at the head and feet , and sufficiently open to expose the breast and knees of the deceased . |
| 25 | ‘ I have to go out for an hour or so ; therefore I suggest that you acquaint yourself with the filing system and generally try to get the feel of the place . |
| 26 | Such councils might , conceivably , ‘ attract the interests of politically minded Africans and thus serve to diminish the demand for representation in a central Legislature by recourse to a system of electorates ’ . |
| 27 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 28 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 29 | If , however , the Bank of England attempts to maintain an exchange rate below the equilibrium , it must continue to supply extra sterling to meet the shortfall and thus continue to expand the money supply . |
| 30 | But other theories do enquire and thus have to take an interest in what actors think that other actors think . |