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

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1 Integration is viewed in physical terms ; policy increasingly concentrates on people but neglects the true characteristics of people in favour of resources-led practice .
2 Neither Melchett nor Porritt fits the usual patterns of lordship , but their presence is reassuring to members who like to see guarantees of moderation and respectability flown at the masthead .
3 In The Future of an Illusion , the use of the term ‘ religion ’ is one which fits the Jewish-Islamic-Christian complex of religions , which are built upon the notion of a Creator God .
4 The programmer writes programs to unleash the powers of the machine ; the designer writes an interface for the program that fits the personal needs of tailor , musician , secretary or — dare we hope — journalist .
5 Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a .
6 And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning .
7 The government tackles the free-rider problem with respect to the financing of BBC services by legal means .
8 At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand .
9 Charlie rejoins the shouted conversation in pidgin French and Lingala .
10 Wife Sandra adds : ‘ He 's a man of few words who hates the slightest bit of noise .
11 Nicholas Antram has undertaken the revision and records the ongoing demolition of churches , the ‘ insidious suburbanisation ’ particularly noticeable around commuter towns such as Grantham , and the changes in the landscape due to modern farming methods .
12 The master key both advances the stage and records the total number of points counted .
13 Trapped whales of Scapa Flow heading for the open sea again David Hartley records the successful end of Operation Gentle Shepherd
14 The third table records the previous uses of land changing to residential use in each of the English regions .
15 Then he feeds the pictures into a computer , which cuts each picture into 1m tiny elements and records the precise shade of grey of each one .
16 He nowhere confronts the whole issue of menstruation and childbirth , which marked woman as either ritually unclean or sinful .
17 It is rather like the problem of litter louts , one dropped piece of paper is harmless in itself , but the problem involves the total volume of litter !
18 I shall claim that this system involves the arbitrary assignment of attainments to hierarchies of knowledge , understanding and skill , and the equally arbitrary assignment of levels to ages , leading to the arbitrary classification of children .
19 A related contradiction involves the technical organization of labour and the nature of ownership .
20 Adoption involves the legal transfer of responsibility for a child from its natural parents .
21 As crystallization involves the close packing of chains in regular three-dimensional structures , the economical use of space is accompanied by an increase in density .
22 The most controversial of these responsibilities involves the compulsory removal from home of an elderly person under Section 47 of that same Act .
23 Job rotation involves the systematic movement of employees from one task to another , usually to reduce monotony by increasing task variety .
24 In addition , photosynthesis ( see p. 93 ) involves the controlled splitting of water .
25 This mechanism involves the cell-to-cell conduction of action potentials through gap junctions at speeds of 2 to 500mms -1 .
26 It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity .
27 Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery .
28 Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery .
29 This type of insurance involves the four-weekly collection of premiums in policyholders ' homes .
30 It turns out that a great deal of our conversational interaction involves the repetitious use of structure .
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