Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 2 | Rescheduling the debt has merely deferred rather than solved the problems of increasing internal efficiencies and domestic savings rates . |
| 3 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 4 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 5 | Any mains spikes are largely smoothed out while recharging the batteries , and a very clean 240 volts supply is reformed by an oscillator to power the computer . |
| 6 | Travelling strongly for much of the way , Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight . |
| 7 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 8 | But Sir Bob wants it to build on what BR has already achieved rather than restructure the rail service . |
| 9 | I feel there can be few more worthy objects for the book-collector who is suitably placed geographically than gathering the printed products of his town or city through the centuries . |
| 10 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 11 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 12 | Despite hopes to the contrary , the war gradually worsened rather than alleviated the problems of the rural population . |
| 13 | Thus its surface may only occasionally be punctuated by groups of waterlilies and its margins graced with a restrained selection of marginal plants carefully placed so as to balance the visual aspect of the pool and yet not spoil it reflective qualities . |
| 14 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 15 | The former s39 ( now repealed so as to open the way for MDPssee below ) prohibited solicitors from acting as agents for unqualified persons . |
| 16 | The UK agreements are not concerned with principle or with the ‘ spirit ’ of the agreement : they are trickily worded and legalistically interpreted so as to maintain the maximum freedom to advertise . |
| 17 | The disk is round to pentagonal , delicate and frequently damaged so as to obscure the shape ; covered with skin without any plates ; disk diameter up to 25 mm . |
| 18 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
| 19 | The condition is conveniently expressed by where Taking the square root of both sides of equation ( 9.50 ) , the quadratic equation is obtained which has roots or , since only positive pulsatances have physical meaning Substituting for k from equation ( 9.48 ) , these pulsatances are and imposing condition ( 9.51 ) establishes that the pulsatance range corresponding to is In this range of pulsatance , the attenuation constant is zero , but from equation ( 9.15 ) there is a phase shift per section given by In the range which corresponds to pulsatances satisfying and , where and are the critical pulsatances defined in condition ( 9.52 ) , the phase shift is but there is attenuation characterised by an attenuation constant α where Perhaps surprisingly , condition ( 9.52 ) yields the simple relationship |
| 20 | It was reportedly built from the ground up using a concept called Modifiability-by-Design to bend to the way businesses are actually run rather than forcing the user to adapt to the software . |
| 21 | It was held that the clause did not protect the owners against liability for negligence : they could be liable either strictly , for failing to supply a cycle fit for its purpose , or in negligence ; it was therefore construed only as covering the strict liability . |