Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HEV also differs with HAV in the increased frequency with which infection is observed in adults compared with children . |
| 2 | I certainly assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no sense in which the Government want positively to discriminate in favour of one type of schooling over others , because parents have a right to choose . |
| 3 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 4 | In contrast , if the terms in general appear unfairly weighted in favour of one party , or if an individual term appears unreasonable , the other party may be encouraged to challenge their effectiveness , and a court may sympathise with the challenger and strive to find ways to reduce the scope of the terms . |
| 5 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 6 | I tend not to shop in places like Marks and Spencer , but they have got some good gear in there . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a look at a small group of Young Conservatives might be able to throw light upon ideological issues , which tend not to arise in studies of society 's victims . |
| 8 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 9 | Parents seek right to sue over injury to foetus |
| 10 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 11 | List generally approved after explanations of why and wherefore . |
| 12 | Protest over overcrowding among immigrants from Ethiopia |
| 13 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 14 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 15 | The studio almost immediately cast her in a cycle of prestigious ( if often meretricious ) ‘ women 's pictures ’ , including Edmund Goulding 's Dark Victory ( 1939 ) , which had her , in its famous climactic scene , walk upstairs to die in solitude with all the dignified serenity of an elephant trundling off to its ancestral graveyard ; Michael Curtiz 's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( also 1939 ) , in which she flaunted the Virgin Queen 's ( and her own ) baldness as the ultimate emblem of great , self-abasing character acting ; and , of course , Irving Rapper 's sudsy , multi-Kleenex tearjerker Now , Voyager ( 1942 ) , in which her repressed , plain-Jane spinster blossoms overnight into chic , radiant , cigarette-tapping womanhood . |
| 16 | The inhabitants of these shells extend long threads through pores with which they trap particles of food . |
| 17 | Outside and inside also seem best treated as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 18 | We are a group of lesbian feminists ( about 30 + years old ) , who meet regularly to talk about issues around sex , eg : desires and politics in connexion with sex . |
| 19 | During the 1970s , the government began a long programme under which medieval mosques would be restored and some of the glory of Iraq 's Islamic past reasserted , with Baghdad , Basra and Mosul again seen as centres of Arab culture . |
| 20 | The offer 's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form . |
| 21 | Equally , The Smiths counterparts in the rock field , say , U2 may make fine music but they shy away to hide behind subtleties of abstract lyricism . |
| 22 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 23 | Those who recover often live in fear of a second , potentially fatal , attack , but a new test , pioneered in Australia by Dr John Bourke and funded by the British Heart Foundation , may identify those at risk . |
| 24 | ‘ We have people here , ’ Irina said , in French this time , ‘ who know how to deal with people like you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I expect you know how to get in touch with her , in case of trouble , I mean . |
| 26 | And they know and we know where to look for help in finding it . |
| 27 | The soft systems approach often leads to conclusions about fundamental problems in an organisation , problems which in turn would require fundamental changes before they could be resolved . |
| 28 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 29 | A point which emerges … is the frequency with which the same orders of magnitude keep on recurring among people of widely different technical achievements and inhabiting areas with markedly different physical characteristics . |
| 30 | Some of the subjects like science and history have attempted to be positive in the curriculum content so that the children attain the targets for the subjects , but also become better educated in terms of quality issues . |