Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone 's perpetual concern to safeguard himself against having to take legal responsibility necessitates a fearful expenditure of effort , paper , ink , and time , slows down the transaction of business , removes from the provincial and district agencies all feelings of independence , and teaches them to act surreptitiously if at all . |
| 2 | This view actually parallels modern scientific thinking , which presumes that the universe is evolving towards final destruction when the inevitable pull of gravity slows down the rate of expansion . |
| 3 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 4 | Style offers only an illusion of democracy , an illusion , indeed , that in a capitalist society is a necessary part of the leisure process . |
| 5 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 6 | Where the groups are of similar social and economic level with no particular dislike for each other , the supplanting of one group by another usually involves only a minimum of friction . |
| 7 | This , of course , illustrates powerfully the lack of choice facing rural dwellers , imposing the need to work within walking distance ( if there is any ) and enforcing car ownership , lift-sharing or migration . |
| 8 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 9 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 10 | It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence . |
| 11 | Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old . |
| 12 | The story exhibits just the type of learning and experimentation that one would expect from incrementalism , except that , in the Honda case , the experiments were being conducted for real , not just in the executives ' minds prior to decision , and the process did not seem all that logical . |
| 13 | Nearby , Otto Bitner has just the sort of chocolate confections for which diets are readily discarded . |
| 14 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 15 | For the Elves the present is a time that holds both the promise of renewal and the threat of destruction . |
| 16 | The roof contains double the thickness of insulation normally included in a new home , the ground floors are thermally insulated and the traditional brick/block external cavity wall insulation has been increased . |
| 17 | For , even in these difficult times , he still holds dear the thought of League football arriving at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 18 | The achievement has taken 17 months and covers nearly every aspect of Atlas Copco 's business including installation , service schemes , training and inspection testing . |
| 19 | Yes that thing that trickles out a bit of water . |
| 20 | The mouse chokes back a sob of gratitude . |
| 21 | Do you think it holds out a ray of hope among the problems which perplex us all so sorely today ? ’ |
| 22 | The letter states that efforts will be made to create a ‘ fair distribution ’ of press releases , and holds out the olive-branch of club membership before the next company-reporting season in November . |
| 23 | Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour , she nonetheless holds out the prospect of transformation . |
| 24 | The ‘ high profile ’ that this gives Owen provides the satisfaction that he requires and in addition holds out the prospect of career advancement . |
| 25 | Sussex 's most remarkable Saxon church , Sompting , illustrates well the process of extension and adaptation which went on over several centuries , and particularly as South Saxon society reached its peak before Norman infiltration . |
| 26 | Keatley articulates well the mixture of possessiveness and resentment that motivates Margaret , and the denouncement. where Rose discovers the truth is sensitively handled . |
| 27 | The distribution of points in it contains quite a lot of information , but the basic clustering algorithm will lose it because this algorithm will lump all the points into a single cluster . |
| 28 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 29 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 30 | The fact that Estonia and the Ukraine have proposed the issue of their own currencies illustrates how the control of tax and expenditure lie at the heart of independent government . |