Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Commission in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recommended that s15(2) ( b ) should be deleted and instead a reference to the buyer having a reasonable opportunity to compare the bulk with the sample should be inserted into s34 . |
| 2 | A muddy substratum is recommended and therefore a mixture of clay and peat is satisfactory . |
| 3 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
| 4 | But if the moment of performance is considered as potentially an act of composition , a different perspective can emerge . |
| 5 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 6 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 7 | An eye catching layout , full of interest over a wide range of subjects , well written and hardly a hint of political bias . |
| 8 | An eye catching layout , full of interest over a wide range of subjects , well written and hardly a hint of political bias . |
| 9 | Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned . |
| 10 | Seeing Renaissance writing deploying its resources to justify genocide as moral , divinely justified and ‘ civilising ’ , forces us to accept that Renaissance literature 's role has too frequently been accepted as unquestionably an instrument of enlightenment in some unexplored way . |
| 11 | Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories . |
| 12 | Its actions and policies are formed by local as well as national events , and it must be seen as both an agent of , and an obstacle to , central government . |
| 13 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 14 | In structuralist accounts the state is seen as essentially a factor of cohesion in society , which functions to organize the dominant class and to disorganize the subordinate classes through the use of either repressive or ideological apparatuses ( Althusser , 1969 ) . |
| 15 | In traditional medicine , health is seen as essentially a matter of maintaining a balance within an individual as well as between the individual , the community and the environment . |
| 16 | Purchasing ought not to be seen as mainly a question of routine paperwork . |
| 17 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 18 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 19 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
| 20 | Across from the Peninsula , but in a different price world , is the YMCA , splendidly situated and only a block from the Star Ferry Terminal . |
| 21 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 22 | Educational technology is therefore offered as almost a synonym for systematic thinking in education . |
| 23 | This can perhaps be interpreted as either a sign of policy changes feeding through into the yield curve or as a change in exchange rate expectations . |
| 24 | It is obviously rather dangerous to talk too generally , and the above brief survey must be interpreted as only a guide to the average performance of deaf children . |
| 25 | In many cases , identification of workers with the enterprise which employs them may be only weakly formed but again a community of interest may be established at this level , depending perhaps on the degree of ‘ paternalism ’ of the management , the character of employment conditions in the enterprise , and the degree of craft skill or other interesting aspect of work within the enterprise . |
| 26 | Indeed both women and men were so baptized and entered the people of God which was the church — in differentiation from the Jewish background in which only men were circumcised and fully a part of the religious people of Israel . |
| 27 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 28 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 29 | It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed . |
| 30 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |