Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , as interpreters of animal behaviour we have our own convenience to consider ; to dissolve species ( and human societies too , as in classical economics ) into uniformly egoistic atoms offers much the best prospect of finding simple laws to apply to them .
2 In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event .
3 Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word .
4 It may be observed that the linear regression line in Fig. 1 represents only the general tendency of the association between women 's age at first marriage and at first birth .
5 The Royal Bank of Scotland plc [ a Member of IMRO and of SFA ] represents only The royal Bank of Scotland Marketing Group for life assurance , pensions and unit trust business .
6 Dennis Parsons was an accountant of the new ‘ creative ’ variety , for whom the firm 's actual turnover represents only the original idea on which the completed tax return is based .
7 Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned .
8 Unstable rock , high on the left flank , periodically cascades down the lower section of the route .
9 And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace .
10 An ambulatory round the central octagon joins together the four chapels of the smaller ones .
11 She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity .
12 Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street .
13 They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain .
14 Indeed , the party might well stay in power unless the Liberals win outright since it has much the better chance of putting together a coalition with other parties .
15 For those who want to make a choice or are for some reason coming new to Ferrier , I would recommend the fifth disc with the unforgettable Chausson and Brahms , the sixth , which has some of her best and most lovable performances of British song , including Purcell 's Mad Bess of Bedlam preciously available only in an EP , allied to some precious Wolf , sung with new-found subtlety of nuance , from a Norwegian Radio recital , and the ninth disc , the Edinburgh recital with Walter , which has much the more telling of her two accounts of Frauenliebe und -leben .
16 The mechanism of change , the cultural ‘ instruction ’ as Cloak ( 1975 ) calls it , has much the same function in the historical process as genes have had in biological evolution , but the ‘ instruction ’ in cultural change is usually an acquired behavioural injunction existing in a world of meanings : the cognitive , although not always conscious , appreciation of their social environment by a human community .
17 RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones .
18 Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does .
19 Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 .
20 It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia .
21 Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly .
22 Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car .
23 This illustrates better the total effect of stratification on the boundary layer ( but the reduction of all cases to a single curve is lost ) .
24 Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder .
25 The fact that Nadia has only the little finger on each hand has not produced one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils at the Borders preparatory school .
26 Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight .
27 The walk 's last leg follows the embankment of the world 's first electric road-railway , which used to take Victorian tourists from Portrush to the Giant 's Causeway but now covers only the easy descent into Portballintrae .
28 This highlights perhaps the major difference between BR and RENFE in the way the machinery is used and the culture of industrial relations that has grown up around it : the handling of individual grievances .
29 Another crustacean , Copilia , has perhaps the strangest eye of all , for it scans the world in way very reminiscent of a television camera .
30 Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’
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