Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How these claims and dependencies are reconciled , how the views of the different disciplines fit consistently together to give a total picture of the one world of experience is a problem both vast and baffling . |
| 2 | The National Union of Journalists has once again discussed the situation at their annual Delegate Conference . |
| 3 | Jones , still only 30 , already had a reputation as an experienced seaman and he began his new career by capturing several British ships in the Irish Sea , but his announcement that he intended to raid Whitehaven in Cumberland and burn the vessels moored there nearly provoked a mutiny , for his crew , already disgruntled that so many ships had been sunk instead of seized , saw their prospect of prize money once again going up in smoke . |
| 4 | Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC . |
| 5 | Any delay or obstruction of measures to safeguard Venice 's heritage would not only be a bureaucratic or administrative problem or even a political game : the delay and second rate solutions have now clearly become a moral issue . |
| 6 | The result of this unique situation has been that , although there have been disagreements about which specific reactor type should be built , governments of both main political parties have nearly always accepted the UKAEA 's general pro-nuclear arguments . |
| 7 | The BA Honours Degree in Retail Marketing , formulated by JS and Manchester Metropolitan University , has been running for three years and the two parties have now formally signed a contract securing the future of the programme . |
| 8 | This morning they were able to claim a small victory when the contractors turned away without doing the work . |
| 9 | If you wish to pay by Bankers Order then please complete the form below and send that to the RAFA with your membership application form . |
| 10 | ( His parents had never even noticed the faint scratches . |
| 11 | The FAO meeting also heard that 63 tropical forest countries had thus far accepted the broad outline of the 1985 Tropical Forest Action Plan ( TFAP — see p. 36249 ) and that 20 of these had prepared co-ordinated forestry development plans . |
| 12 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 13 | Finally , our most recent results have shown that ( 1 ) the differential perspective cues described here also affect the perceived absolute distance to the surface ( such that a surface containing perspective cues appropriate for near viewing is perceived to be closer to the observer ) , and ( 2 ) the shape of the apparent fronto-parallel surface systematically varies with the differential vertical perspective cues generated by surfaces at different absolute distances from the observer , as Helmholtz informally demonstrated over a hundred years ago . |
| 14 | Yet United States experience is scarcely encouraging , for primaries held there typically attract a turn-out of no more than 30% . |
| 15 | Such an inequality has been modified and refined in the decades since emancipation , but blacks have never quite shed the remnants of their shackles and have stayed socially unequal . |
| 16 | Surveys of such areas in many countries have almost invariably shown the presence of viable eggs of T. canis in around 10% of soil samples . |
| 17 | Table 8.1 indicates that the Conservatives have also virtually halted the trends of the 1970s in relation to wealth . |
| 18 | Renault engineers have also carefully developed the rear suspension on Safrane to provide predictable handling even when sideways cornering forces are involved . |
| 19 | The ideas developed so far provide a very incomplete story when the flow is adjacent to a solid boundary . |
| 20 | More insecticides applied more often hastened the evolution of strains of pests resistant to the chemicals . |
| 21 | ON the eve of the most significant European Community summit of recent years , the French and West German governments moved quickly yesterday to avert a damaging split over plans to move to full European economic and monetary union . |
| 22 | The reason for this shift , according to Marglin , was not the higher efficiency of factory production compared to home-working under the putting-out system , but because the merchants could not force the home-workers to work hard enough to meet the increased demand for cotton . |
| 23 | There is no reliable estimate of abundance for the franciscana , although the incidental gill-net kill of tens of thousands of dolphins over the last 30 years has undoubtedly significantly reduced the total population . |
| 24 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 25 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 26 | The most dangerous balls swing only enough to beat the bat or graze its edge . |
| 27 | Since then , however , the creating of life peers has lent it a meritocratic rather than an aristocratic character and governments need no longer fear the exercise of its blocking power to the same extent . |
| 28 | Legislators have only just passed the 1993 budget , and they will not appreciate having to rearrange the billions in pork they packed into it . |
| 29 | Foreign investment banks have so far made a big chunk of their profits from earning high interest on the 10 billion won ( $12.6m ) they must deposit to do business . |
| 30 | Chinese pressure on the conference organisers has so far prevented the Tibetan spiritual leader from attending . |