Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To apply for Meridian simply complete the attached application form and return it to your local Midland branch . |
| 2 | However 1980 , it seemed , just might represent a genuine national shift towards conservatism thereby providing the underpinning for a new alignment of electoral forces to replace the Democratic coalition founded by Franklin Roosevelt . |
| 3 | First because a recovery of the histories of perversion precisely disarticulates the sexological and psychoanalytic classifications which would lump together as perversions homosexuality , incest , bestiality , etc . |
| 4 | By 1990 its GDP per head , having of course just absorbed the former East Germany , stood at US$18,970 against the French equivalent of US$19,480 . |
| 5 | It draws us towards other ignored aspects of existence usually called the psychic , esoteric or occult and suggests a possible connection . |
| 6 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 7 | The control of the state apparatus , the manipulation of elections , the granting of privileges , and the control of violence often rendered the political class relatively autonomous and independent of interests or at least able to discriminate among them |
| 8 | As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible . |
| 9 | The upswing of accumulation partially absorbed the huge pool of labour in backward sectors ( including ex-agricultural workers drawn into service industries in the early fifties ) . |
| 10 | The monks of Battle usually ate the poorest meat from their own estates ; the best was sold to pay the recurrent costs of the abbey buildings and staff , and to run the hospital and almonry maintained for the local poor . |
| 11 | Since means of production and means of consumption normally re-enter the productive process , their consumption can be called productive consumption . |
| 12 | A more specific example of how the culture of work profoundly influences the industrial worker is around the issue of assessment . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport today stages the first of three exhibitions on the route for the new £38m dual carriageway due to be built between Malton and Seamer . |
| 14 | PJ : Protection Warranty : Additional security is required in respect of double leaf hinged doors , unless your current level of security already meets the new requirement . |
| 15 | Thus the Lacanian account of the impossibility of desire often cites the following passage from Freud 's ‘ On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love ’ : ‘ It is my belief that , however strange it may sound , we must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavourable to the realization of complete satisfaction , ( vii . |
| 16 | Out of the land of heaven Down comes the warm Sabbath sun . |
| 17 | Despite the government 's arbitrary confiscation of high denomination notes in January , the outstanding stock of cash still dwarfs the annual value of retail sails . |
| 18 | Why have the laws of war not addressed the nuclear weapons question more successfully ? |
| 19 | Dunne himself went out of his way to insist that his theory was free from any occult taint ; but An Experiment with Time , revised and expanded in 1934 , was to remain in print for over half a century ; and ironically , it won the reputation of doing more to convince the general public of the reality of clairvoyance , in the form of precognition , than all the labours of the psychical researchers whom Dunne so mistrusted . |
| 20 | The system of awarding punitive damages as a deterrent to manufacturers or operators falling below acceptable standards of safety totally ignores the huge bureaucracy of regulation and control that exists to preserve those standards . |
| 21 | The Siporax is only half submerged , so that a head of water never covers the biological media . |
| 22 | She had behaved quite out of character just to get the better of him . |
| 23 | She is now locked up in a mental institution — and only strength of character probably stopped the same fate from happening to Gless . |
| 24 | Rugs that have been chemically washed to give the appearance of age normally show the same degree of fading throughout the depth of the pile . |
| 25 | This sense of age perhaps motivates the general unconcern for Frodo shown by the Shire , his unfair though unintended supplanting by the large and ‘ lordly ’ hobbits Merry and pippin , the rudeness or much-qualified respect shown to him by Sharkey 's men and Gaffer Gamgee too . |
| 26 | The doctor was called and the defendant provided a specimen of blood which on analysis proved to contain a proportion of alcohol substantially exceeding the statutory limit . |
| 27 | Indeed , the old pre-industrial cities of repute rarely attracted the new kinds of production , so that the typical new industrial region generally took the form of a sort of growing together of separate villages developing into smaller towns and small towns developing into larger ones . |
| 28 | Rigid , the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame |
| 29 | These two views of style evidently concern the general properties of literary language more than the individual features of authors or texts , whereas it is to these features that the stylistics of representation and manner both give their attention . |
| 30 | Supporters of benchmarking usually stress the invigorating effects of looking outside for comparisons . |