Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers clocked up bonus points by flying with a particular airline , but these could be cashed in only with the same airline . |
| 2 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 3 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 4 | This chapter begins by looking at the formation of groups , and the emergence of roles , norms and control devices . |
| 5 | I know how much hard work goes into looking after a baby and I just ca n't wait . |
| 6 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | make test checks on posting to the accounts from records of receipts and payments ; |
| 9 | A similar provision exists with regard to the community charge . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 12 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 15 | 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) ) . |
| 16 | The very foundation of our education rests in meeting under a common roof , whether it be the education of the classroom , the church or citizenship . |
| 17 | Drill holes and fit the wall plugs before screwing on the shower slider rail or bracket ( see How to drill through tiles in best , issue 20/91 ) . |
| 18 | Tit for Tat begins by cooperating on the first move and thereafter simply copies the previous move of the other player . |
| 19 | You can remove your name from direct mailing lists by writing to the Mailing Preference Service , Freepost 22 , London W1E 7EZ . |
| 20 | Occasionally a party is defied , and a rejected and disgruntled postulant insists on standing as an independent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | DESENSITIZING THE POSITIVE SUPPORTING ACTION ; THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST CONCENTRATES ON LENGTHENING OF THE SOLE OF THE FOOT AND ACHILLES TENDON . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But my own belief is that each spirit evolves by progressing through a series of different human lives , one after another , learning its lessons along the way . |
| 25 | And after that you can relax on some gentler pace rides before taking in a show or two , such as the Hot Ice Show in the Arena which runs until November 7 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |