Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress . |
| 2 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 3 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 4 | Accordingly , he formulates a hypothetical set of computational constraints which he claims will both assess the degree of match between two views so as to choose the better one , and typically force a 3-D interpretation which is both unique and veridical . |
| 5 | They are asking clusters to pull together their existing key databases rather than implementing a full networked database , a task that is still very hard to manage . |
| 6 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 7 | to develop from a small beginning in manageable steps rather than to spend a long period identifying ‘ all ’ institutional needs and all required data items followed by software development of a ‘ complete ’ system on an unmanageable scale ; |
| 8 | Kinnock dismissed the proposed Charter on July 23 as " an election gimmick " designed to boost the Conservatives ' electoral ratings rather than tackle the relevant issues , and said that it was an implicit admission that the government had allowed the quality of public services to decline during its years in office . |
| 9 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 10 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |
| 11 | Suppressing emotions Rather than letting the emotional blockages out , the person demands logic , rationality ( ‘ Let's not get emotional' or ‘ Please , let's act like adults ’ ) . |
| 12 | The finance cost should be allocated to accounting periods so as to achieve a constant rate on the amount outstanding . |
| 13 | In view of the recent ’ Dispatches ’ television programme , has the Minister conducted an inquiry into how the police , Customs and Excise and the security services work together and how they share information with other countries so as to reduce the hard drugs problem that each and every hon. Member sees weekly in his or her constituency ? |
| 14 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 15 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 16 | These are conceptualized as unified , non-contradictory , omniscient ‘ actors ’ , united by the common objective of dividing the working class along racial lines so as to facilitate the economic exploitation of both sections of the class . |
| 17 | In setting up the scheme , care must be taken to judge the range and slopes of the lines so as to maintain the desired balance in the minds of the contractor 's engineers . |
| 18 | In the view of general manager Alan Sinclair , most agents in Britain lean too heavily towards the mass marketing of packages rather than providing a proper travel service . |
| 19 | Fig 1 shows some methods of equalising slings so as to place an equal load on each anchor . |
| 20 | But now that King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of England he was determined to rule both kingdoms so as to allow no further violence between them . |
| 21 | They 've scoured their record collections for their favourite chic embellishments so as to enhance the luxury commodity aura of their product . |
| 22 | For the first time in their history the Tuareg — the largest tribe of Nomads in the Sahara Desert — recently delayed their annual migration for 10 days so as to catch the final episode of Dallas |
| 23 | But more significantly , it would mean a reduction in investment performance as more funds were switched into gilts and fixed interest stocks so as to meet the statutory solvency requirements . |
| 24 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
| 25 | He 's quick and strong and is the type who will get on the end of things rather than play a big part in the build-up . |
| 26 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 27 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 28 | At one time he was a sheep-farmer himself and , upon his deification , placed his flock in the heavens so as to keep a close eye on them . |
| 29 | This pronouncement on social policy upheld the institution of private property , but acknowledged that limitations might rightly be laid upon its rights so as to protect the poor and weak . |
| 30 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |