Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may link with the lower average level of technical qualification among the UK chief executive officers . |
| 2 | This may conflict with the chronological age , and the person may switch backwards and forwards from one age to another , so it requires alertness to work out what the person is feeling . |
| 3 | The aim is to minimise costs in the very long term but the important question is the extent to which this may conflict with the short-run costs of pursuing diversity . |
| 4 | If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces . |
| 5 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
| 6 | This would accord with the general understanding of the word objective , i.e. independent of the observer . |
| 7 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 8 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 9 | One particular matter of concern would be the election of directors by particular constituencies ( shareholders on the one hand and employees on the other ) ; if it were intended that they should represent those constituencies , this would conflict with the general principle of company law that all directors should look to the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 10 | Few would quarrel with the above statement but it is , of course , qualitative and any engineer or scientist needs a much more exact definition of stiffness . |
| 11 | If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department . |
| 12 | The pressure comes most obviously in terms of the recently imposed completion rates for postgraduate research , but there also seems to be a more general irritation in policy circles with what seems to be the leisurely pace of higher education , a pace which some would link with the original meaning of the word scholar . |
| 13 | Few will quarrel with the general principle that such steps should have been taken in Ulster . |
| 14 | But all that could change with the latest EG models . |
| 15 | However , none of these can compare with the unbearable sense of dread felt by every golfer in the nation as they watched this year 's final Major — the US PGA Championship . |
| 16 | All that would change with the papal reform to which Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) has given his name . |
| 17 | Both would interfere with the natural process of evolution and natural selection which ensured social progress . |
| 18 | Both can work with the new Cx487S maths co-processor . |