Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For senior posts it can be instructive to do the opposite to see how far the candidate can cope with the stress . |
| 2 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 3 | In addition , muscles require calcium to work efficiently so a deficiency can cause problems with hard working horses as well . |
| 4 | This brief discussion should also illustrate the point that we have , implicitly , adopted a very broad definition of industrialization , taking the term to include not simply the adoption of new techniques of production ( factories and corporations ) but also wider and related changes such as the development of industrially-based cities , migrations to these cities , the growth of bureaucracies and , perhaps , less tangible changes in values . |
| 5 | The experimenter then waits for a certain amount of time and repeats the experiment to see how well the rat has remembered what it has to do . |
| 6 | He also seems to this reviewer to accept too readily the authenticity of certain pieces ( most notably no. 27 , Imitator of Desiderio da Settignano , Virgin and Child ) , and a maddening feature is his habit of quoting inventory numbers rather than published sources for comparable pieces in other museums , which gives the impression that these comparanda have not been published . |
| 7 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 8 | Commentators noted that the leadership restructuring was likely in practice to curtail still further the role of both the politburo and central committee in influencing state policy ( already the politburo had effectively been supplanted by Gorbachev 's new Presidential Council — see pp. 37298-99 ) . |
| 9 | She was also mistaken in declaring her intention to fight on immediately the result of the first ballot was known . |
| 10 | When I come to paint , I like to look at the drawing ; then I put it away and do n't look at it again , because I do n't want even the drawing to influence too much the progress of the painting . |
| 11 | The School Development Plans Project ( SDPP ) broadens the basis of audit to include not only the aims and values of the school but also the policy and initiative of central government and the LEA . |
| 12 | It is always a help to know when precisely a contract is concluded , for example , and of possible legal liabilities against which it is advisable to insure . |
| 13 | This concerns the capacity to discern how far the content of a belief is positive as opposed to negative , and how far this promotes engagement with people rather than indifference to them or denial of them as persons . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend accept the need to harmonise not only the standards but the costs of meat inspection ? |
| 15 | We have stressed the need to set out explicitly the assumptions made about the information available to decision-makers . |
| 16 | The limitations of this view of the policy-making process will be explored , but first there is a need to identify more explicitly the institutions of government to which such an analysis must relate . |
| 17 | Similar rallies in many towns called on today 's crucial Community Party central committee meeting to give up immediately the party 's leading role in society and introduce multi-party democracy . |
| 18 | You can set certain programs in your autoexec.bat file to run only once a day , every 4 hours , every week or every 3 minutes , in fact any combination of time at all . |
| 19 | The criteria are the same as before , so the desire to pursue still further the questioning of the suspect may be enough to justify the court 's sanction for this additional detention . |
| 20 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 21 | There is also the tendency when comparing the past with the present to draw too sharp a distinction between ‘ then and now ’ , a tendency often linked to a view of the present as either vastly superior or inferior to the past . |
| 22 | Engagement personnel should have appropriate skills and competence to carry out properly the work for which they are responsible . |
| 23 | Where is the scientific evidence to support so wide an onslaught ? |
| 24 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 25 | tomorrow night Swindon have a chance to get even nearer the top of the table … they 're at home to Birmingham City … while Oxford are chasing a place in the next round of the cup … they 're at home to Swansea in a third round replay … |
| 26 | Prescriptives now has a foundation to suit just about every skin colour . |
| 27 | I urge my hon. Friend to examine more carefully the health arrangements in many European Community countries , because Britain is one of the few in which a patient may visit a general practitioner and receive hospital treatment free of charge . |
| 28 | Er , it 's something that will be welcomed by the trade union movement , a new forward , a new beginning to join once again the fruits of our labour with partnership with other unions and the Labour Party which was what we all need , but it must be done with careful planning and the brains at the top of the union must be telling the of the union , the members on the shop floor , the right direction in which to walk . |
| 29 | Modern psychology has been too taken with human drives and the abolition of guilt to take seriously enough the problem of evil in the world . |
| 30 | Today , of course , the test of love between men would be their willingness to share not just a toothbrush but also a razor . |