Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences . |
| 2 | The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity , while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values . |
| 3 | As the snake closes in for the kill , its mouth sensors guide it with deadly accuracy . |
| 4 | The scanner manufacturers use lots of clever software to simulate halftones by a process called dithering . |
| 5 | Eyes have it with new sight cure |
| 6 | Whether pupils ' behaviour is itself a political statement or not , the aggressive forms impress themselves onto educational politics . |
| 7 | Apart from the formal accomplishments of law , accountancy and financial management , these skills restrict themselves to formalized consumer analysis , market survey technique , matrixes and learning curves . |
| 8 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 9 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 10 | Thirty vouchers entitle you to half-price travel for a car and five people across the Irish Sea or the English Channel . |
| 11 | Both the men in expensive suits meet me on big-suited territory . |
| 12 | Similarly , if social representation theorists stress anchoring one-sidedly , they will find themselves describing the ways in which individuals anchor themselves to social knowledge : the thinking individual will be perceived as someone who unthinkingly seeks to avoid novelty by automatically categorizing fresh information in terms of familiar schemata . |
| 13 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 14 | As well as the growth in the number of low-paid jobs , a significant group of flexible workers find themselves in great demand , and consequently gain high salaries . |
| 15 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 16 | When regional deals divert more trade than they create , economists regard them as harmful overall : such arrangements tend to shift production to less efficient producers . |
| 17 | ensure that all telephone messages reach you on proper telephone message pads and ensure that your message takers are trained |
| 18 | Their seniors bestow it with increasing effectiveness as their seniority increases . |
| 19 | Some centres offer lots of high performance dinghies , catamarans and windsurfers , other centres rely more on sturdy three many wayfarer dinghies , safer on long sails in the open sea . |
| 20 | All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation . |
| 21 | Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all . |
| 22 | Pale soft blues lend themselves to large surface areas , while intense blues are better in restricted spaces |
| 23 | The simple answer is that not all materials lend themselves to scientific dating . |
| 24 | teachers see it as natural justice ( comparison with colleagues reduces isolation and gives them a yardstick ) ; |
| 25 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 26 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |
| 27 | From the welter of information available , perhaps the most significant point to emerge from user studies is that few , if any , of their findings lend themselves to general applicability . |
| 28 | The same is true for published research papers in these sciences , and this is one of the reasons for the popularity of KWIC ( Key Word In Context ) indexes within chemistry and the earth sciences — the papers lend themselves to automated index production . |
| 29 | In so far as such doctrines owe anything to economic theory , it is to that body of theorising now encompassed within the term ‘ public choice theory ’ , and particularly to economic models of bureaucracy . |
| 30 | Others prepare themselves through pre-retirement planning to find ways of giving continuing service to the community . |