Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 2 | Who cares about ageing in the sun ? |
| 3 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 4 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 5 | The ‘ war on drugs ’ looks like turning into a Norteamericano war on the peasants and the ruthless Maoists of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 6 | The Chelsea ground where John Major and David Mellor spent their Saturdays in quieter times is the prize in a tussle which is already into extra-time and looks like heading for a replay . |
| 7 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 8 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 9 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 10 | He starts by sitting on the side of the plinth , and the physiotherapist may use mobilizing techniques to reduce any spasticity in the patient 's trunk or arm . |
| 11 | The Law Society has submitted its response to the Law Commission 's Consultation Paper on Fiduciary Duties and Regulatory rules , and concludes by disagreeing with the Commission 's preliminary proposals to overcome current difficulties which the Commission have been examining . |
| 12 | This allows for repricing of the budget for November , nineteen ninety-two , to November nineteen ninety-three , and that sum is shown there as some fifty- seven thousand pounds . |
| 13 | The latter form handles for winding in the line and the handles can be at opposite ends , or have one central to act as a pivot , rotating in the free hand . |
| 14 | To my mind , the answer to the question depends on ascertaining in the context of the Act as a whole what is the administration referred to . |
| 15 | Money is one of the more fascinating of social inventions which depends on counting as a capacity to express , in a word , measure , the social value of individuals , labour and commodities in society . |
| 16 | Licences over the whole of the Republic of Ireland were awarded jointly to Ambassador , Continental and Marathon in 1957 and , after some encouraging gas shows during drilling in the Northwest Basin , the consortium acquired licences in the adjacent part of Northern Ireland in 1965 . |
| 17 | A similar provision exists with regard to the community charge . |
| 18 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 19 | DESENSITIZING THE POSITIVE SUPPORTING ACTION ; THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST CONCENTRATES ON LENGTHENING OF THE SOLE OF THE FOOT AND ACHILLES TENDON . |
| 20 | Over-ruddering causes extra drag and an extra loss of height or speed , and it often leads to stalling in the turn . |
| 21 | The number of shock wave discharges administered per session was limited to 3000 , based on experimental studies and because a higher number of discharges leads to clouding of the gall bladder with resultant suboptimal ultrasonographic visualisation caused by cavitation and fragmentation effects ( cloud of dust phenomenon ) . |
| 22 | In either case the presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere and the lithosphere as a whole becomes thinner ( Fig. 4.5(B) ) . |
| 23 | It is , therefore , possible that NCp7 facilitates IN recognition of the DNA ends by binding to the DNA but leaving the ends exposed for IN cleavage and integration . |
| 24 | There is an oddity in the argument , which starts by insisting that we speak only of probability relative to evidence , and ends by talking of a proposition having a probability of 1 in its own right . |
| 25 | I know how much hard work goes into looking after a baby and I just ca n't wait . |
| 26 | ‘ Sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack . ’ |
| 27 | NTSB told ACN it actually had the right by international agreement to make its own investigation , but that , by protocol , it normally waits until invited by the country in which the accident of a U.S. registered airplane occurs . |
| 28 | The same basic policy should be used for all " exceptions " : acknowledge the existence of alternatives , and encourage the habit of checking guesses by referring to the dictionary . |
| 29 | However , it is interesting because of its paradoxical nature ; the apparent lack of behavioural responsiveness actually conceals very much heightened psychological and physiological sensitivity , with which the sufferer copes by withdrawing into the inactivity of catatonic stupor . |
| 30 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |