Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Dorothy Heathcote , whether the object is a shirt , a piece of leather , a chess-piece , a book or a surgeon 's knife , the teacher 's responsibility is to invite or even compel the children to work from a ‘ frame ’ ( used here in the sociological sense of ‘ perspective ’ ) that requires not engagement , but detachment . |
| 2 | He says the councillors will have to find the money from somewhere or even pursaude the Government to give them more . |
| 3 | The judgment given will say where the rights and wrongs lie and the court may award damages to one party or even order a party to take certain positive steps or to refrain from certain action . |
| 4 | Instead , they have in place systems that literally force the manager to move around the table during the A&C ; session to sit with the employee and scan the organisation for individual development opportunities . |
| 5 | The actual language of the text , shaped by these constraints , warrants the interpretative/explanatory application of the categories that theorise the mental constraints that purportedly cause the language to take the shape it does . |
| 6 | Huge stands will be erected around the main grass court in early July to ensure more spectators than ever get a chance to witness the talents of some heroes and heroines of yesteryear . |
| 7 | If we now adopt Grice 's meaning-nn as the scope of meaning in the definition of pragmatics in ( 9 ) , we shall include most of the phenomena that we want to include , like the ironic , metaphoric and indirect implications of what we say ( elements 5 , 6 and 7 in Table I.I ) , and exclude the unintended inferences that intuitively have no part to play in a theory of communication . |
| 8 | The task of the RET therapist is to identify , challenge , and thereby help the client to modify core irrational beliefs ( see p. 41 ) . |
| 9 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 10 | Parry sees the problem which Fanon addressed as precisely that of how to constitute self-identity in a way which validates native difference , and thereby empower the native to rebel . |
| 11 | Lloyds Bank released the bills back to him so that he could sell them and thereby obtain the money to pay off the loan from the Bank . |
| 12 | Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the exchange , said he believed that the clearing house ‘ will involve market users more directly in the development of settlement systems and so enable the UK to achieve the rapid development of a paperless settlement , payments and registration system for domestic equities . |
| 13 | The GLC was empowered by the Act to make grants to the LTE for any purpose ( section 3 ) and the GLC intended in this way to reimburse the LTE for the revenue lost by the fares reduction and so enable the LTE to balance its books , this being an obligation placed on the LTE ‘ so far as practicable ’ . |
| 14 | They can also clearly indicate marked levels of delay and so enable the professional to plan a course of intervention and further investigation . |
| 15 | The horse that forgot about the tiger that lived in its lair at the bottom of the hill , or at any time disregarded the danger , would very soon become the tiger 's dinner , and so lack the opportunity to pass on to future generations its genes for a poor memory and a low threshold of fear . |
| 16 | The first alternative corrects all weights which are too high , and so cause the node to recognise an image not in C. The second corrects weights which are too low . |
| 17 | The others lack the faculties to stay in sport and so lose the option to form a stable relationship with the coach . |
| 18 | But although literature is necessarily ideological , its qualities as literature have a distancing effect on the ideologies that it represents , and so allow the reader to become aware of them as ideologies . |
| 19 | Also , the opponent may fall in an unexpected direction , so that you have to spin around and perhaps take a step to reach him . |
| 20 | A few sugar-free yoghurt drops or a Rite Weight diet meal will soon restore that missing frisk — and perhaps persuade a hound to turn VEGGIE . |
| 21 | You then turn round so you 're facing forwards and constantly adjust the risers to keep the wing overhead . |
| 22 | Since this creates an echo , because of the lag of a second or two , the effects of hearing the echoed message are initially disconcerting and generally cause the subjects to stop processing the source language properly . |
| 23 | It is also likely that by providing minimum standards of living , social services reduce public apathy and dejection and thus maintain the will to work . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend know about Lord Carrington 's advice that such recognition would encourage Herzegovina to claim independence too , and thus excite the Serbs to fight ? |
| 25 | Some 80 per cent of diminished-responsibility defences are accepted by the prosecution , and only in around 13 per cent of cases does the prosecution contest the defence evidence and thus require the jury to apply section 2 . |
| 26 | If countries with dwindling elephant herds were allowed to sell a small quantity of ivory each year , they would earn foreign exchange , and thus have an incentive to conserve their herds . |
| 27 | Introduce Apple Snails into Their new home in the same way as fish ; float the bag to equalise the temperatures , and gradually mix the water to accustom the snail to the new conditions . |
| 28 | United are 16th and still need the points to wash away any fear of relegation . |
| 29 | As Mann says , this may be acceptable if the only evidence consists of a ‘ one-sided dialogue ’ where the suspect refuses to answer any questions at all , but where some , a significant number perhaps , are answered , it may be highly impracticable to sever a conversation in this way and still expect a jury to make sense of it . |
| 30 | Is it reasonable for a woman to invite a man to her bedroom , even to undress and get into bed , and still reserve the right to refuse penetrative sex ? |