Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the key to the avoidance of uncontrolled complexity in any engineering domain may be to go for a complete and as rigorous as possible a description of the problem in hand before any detailed calculations are made on the precise properties of the postulated design . |
| 2 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 3 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 5 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |
| 6 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 7 | Phoebe had to stand on the cold and excessively clean linoleum floor , far away from the fitted carpets and deep leather chairs of the waiting area . |
| 8 | But whereas the administration likes to talk about a greener and more internationally competitive car industry , Detroit wants to spend any available support on overcoming bread-and-butter engineering obstacles in complying with environmental legislation . |
| 9 | On 19 December 1946 the leader of the indigenous forces in Vietnam , Ho Chi Minh , initiated the rising against French colonial occupation , which was eventually to lead to the bloodiest and politically most crucial local war this century . |
| 10 | A trim SAS dry baghouse filter permits cleaning of the exit gases to conform to the latest and most stringent pollution control legislation and EC environmental protection directives . |
| 11 | That most glamorous of all the angels of the hearth , who had come in her little pillbox hat to preside over the purest and most gracious of all houses , the White House . |
| 12 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 13 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 14 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |
| 15 | Twelve years ago e-mail facilities were often only available to users competent to cope with the basic and rather cryptic tools inherent in operating systems on mainframes or large minicomputers . |
| 16 | Only a few , such as the highly adaptable wild pigs , have been able to cope with the changed and still changing landscape . |
| 17 | Although still nominally under the CID organizational structure , and still holding the title of detective , I was detailed to deal with the new and very ambiguous ‘ prig ’ — the drug user . |
| 18 | Medical personnel were unprepared and had no treatment to deal with the bleeding and consequently many people died ’ . |
| 19 | The rigidities and continuities of the planning and design process may constrain ability to deal with the unanticipated and often press purpose built systems into unlikely roles . |
| 20 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 21 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 22 | What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ? |
| 23 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 24 | That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest . |
| 25 | Louis B. Wright 's Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England is welcomed by C. Bowie Millican on the grounds that it confirms a healthy trend in literary research whereby antiquarian , statistical , and editorial work are made to contribute to a broader and more comprehensive " cultural synthesis " : " it is the proper evaluation of such information … that leads to perspective and reveals literature to be both a continuum and a truthful mirror of life . |
| 26 | The attempt , however , must be applauded as a genuine effort to go beyond the sterile and largely one-dimensional business of finding mathematical relationships between sales and advertising . |
| 27 | There is no reason for the law to seek to encourage a woman to reconcile with a violent and sexually brutal man . |
| 28 | When committing himself enthusiastically to an undeniably outrageous tactic , this brave and noble warrior not only left his mark on the opposition but touched significantly upon a dilemma that threatens to develop into an insurmountable and perhaps crucifying problem for Bobby Robson , the temporarily reprieved England manager . |
| 29 | When the package is ready for release , a ‘ Product ’ is created to act as a meaningful and easily identified reference to the version of the package which is to be released . |
| 30 | That is to say upon the documented and officially described features of the organisation . |