Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 2 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 3 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 4 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 5 | What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units . |
| 6 | Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) looks like running until the 2020s . |
| 7 | A COLLEGE course about former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher looks like turning into a giant flop . |
| 8 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 9 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 10 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 11 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 12 | The advantage of heading towards the shore has to weighed against the possible disadvantage of lighter winds closer to shore because of the slowing effect of the land . |
| 13 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 14 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 15 | Editor , — I agree with J D Swales 's contention that the Tomlinson report will damage postgraduate education if it results in weakening of the vital links between the special health authority hospitals and teaching in the postgraduate research institutes . |
| 16 | Retaining the anal mucosa sometimes results in bleeding from the involved mucosa but discrimination may be improved by avoiding mucosectomy . |
| 17 | The apparent lack of much volcanic activity over much of Mercurian history probably results from cooling of the outer mantle , because a planet with a large surface area to mass ratio should cool rather rapidly to fairly low temperatures . |
| 18 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 19 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |
| 20 | Oxford United say their survival depends on moving to a new ground . |
| 21 | ‘ However , from a management company perspective , we feel that doing business there very much depends on associating with the right partner . ’ |
| 22 | For instance , if the paper is water marked , does it agree sufficiently with the supposed date of the letter and do the circumstances and events it deals with coincide with the known facts ? |
| 23 | The article only deals in passing with the particular issue of non-standard entry students and degree performances but argues that evidence shows that these students , and mature students in general , achieve better results than traditional students in most fields of study . |
| 24 | Perform a cost-benefit analysis : identify intangible and tangible benefits and costs before putting in the required resources . |
| 25 | Paul Walton , of James Capel , complained that the Chancellor did not make big enough increases in spending in the right areas . |
| 26 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 27 | Now all the effort goes into preparing for the next one … although the RAF 's team is calling it a day . |
| 28 | If two neutral events of the same class are used , the second one interferes with learning about the first . |
| 29 | But , because an album released in CD-I format is n't likely to set the charts alight right now , a standard CD version of the album will also be made available — when Rundgren eventually gets to signing on the dotted , that is . |
| 30 | If you are uncertain of the type of frame you want to use , or even of the very important role it plays in setting off the finished picture , browsing through the photographs in this book should give you a good idea of the tremendous versatility of frames , and also show you how the correct frame will focus the eye on the design itself , as well as balance all its elements . |