Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close . |
| 2 | Identification of polymer samples can be made by making use of the ‘ finger-print ’ region , where it is least likely for one polymer to exhibit exactly the same spectrum as another . |
| 3 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 4 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 5 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 6 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 7 | It is orthodox doctrine that the Archbishop of York ought not to hold exactly the same opinions as the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 8 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 9 | But she had an idea , from Cara 's remark about sending a card home , that her sister fully expected her to stay away the whole fortnight as planned . |
| 10 | This function is more fully described elsewhere but the idea is to raise artificially the idle speed when the throttle stick is pulled right back . |
| 11 | PROF Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 12 | PROFESSOR Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 13 | But it is presumably these later criticisms , made long after his emancipation from Wagner , that inspired Elisabeth to explain away the Wagnerian connection as merely secondary ; while her claims about her brother 's real intention to produce a " large " book about Greece ( and nothing but Greece ) would seem to be prompted by a desire to enhance his scholarly image ; for no other kind of book ( she decided ) would have satisfied his " scholar 's conscience . " |
| 14 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |