Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , where such measures are adopted by a qualified majority , Article 100A(4) provides that ‘ a Member State which deems it necessary to apply national provisions on grounds of major needs referred to in art . |
| 2 | Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters . |
| 3 | If the representative assembly in such a system finds it difficult to hold the administration accountable , this may be because the collective political leadership of the administration finds it convenient to restrict legislative scrutiny and control . |
| 4 | The reason the sensation of seeing is so different from the sensation of hearing and the sensation of smelling is that the brain finds it convenient to use different kinds of internal model of the visual world , the world of sound and the world of smell . |
| 5 | It is difficult for them to be drawn accurately and the human eye finds it difficult to detect small differences — in our example the slices representing 12% and 13% of the total . |
| 6 | She says he has no concentration now , he finds it difficult to remember simple things . |
| 7 | On the other hand , she finds it difficult to take much interest in financial control , which means that there are sometimes errors in bills , and her unwillingness to ask walk-in guests for a deposit has led to the occasional bad debt . |
| 8 | It makes me mad to think Big Business is slowly polishing me off so's to increase its profit margins on pesticide . ’ |
| 9 | It now leaves him free to criticise other results of the massively funded but unregulated conservation industry . |
| 10 | This makes it easy to use each crayon as a fine , crisp ‘ tool ’ as well as a blunter one or rubbed on its side . |
| 11 | These differences are probably adaptive and familiarity with the literature on allometry makes it easy to test specific hypotheses . |
| 12 | If all the data are initially entered into a computer database , the power of a database management system makes it easy to present different views of the data to the researcher , allowing more subtle and complex associations to emerge . |
| 13 | This makes it easy to find that point again . |
| 14 | The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language , written or spoken , as being determined by presence , intention or representation . |
| 15 | The inadequate statistical material available makes it impossible to prove either claim . |
| 16 | The lack of an appropriate animal model makes it impossible to investigate this question further at present . |
| 17 | This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution , as one can in astronomy . |
| 18 | The very different behaviour of coordinate time t and the proper time τ when the probe approaches and crosses the horizon illustrates vividly how spacetime curvature makes it impossible to cover all space–time with one set of Cartesian coordinates . |
| 19 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 20 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 21 | The weight of evidence on the effects of predictive accuracy makes it essential to accept some version of the notion that stimulus consequences help determine the level of α . |
| 22 | The importance of the law in such matters is in creating a centre of power which makes it possible to enforce moral duties . |
| 23 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 24 | The reason why communication is achieved here by lexical means only is of course because the context of shared knowledge makes it possible to use minimal cues . |
| 25 | The use of complex lexical structures makes it possible to use simpler grammars . |
| 26 | Retroactive notation makes it possible to indicate distinct facets without recourse to mixed notation . |
| 27 | This makes it possible to keep audio output going even when the read head is on the move and the CD-ROM is not being accessed . |
| 28 | A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted . |
| 29 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 30 | Contracting out makes it possible to transfer those problems to others , who can in principle be fairly tightly controlled through contracts . |