Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prune by cutting off the old flowered growth immediately after flowering , when it will produce good new shoots . |
| 2 | Encourage all those who act as advocates for the oppressed within our society and who seek to channel political power into the cause of justice for everyone . |
| 3 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 4 | We begin by looking at the negative emotions . |
| 5 | ‘ But they will have no experience of running pubs and I know from talking to the local bench that licensing magistrates are concerned at the standard of new licensees . ’ |
| 6 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 7 | The fundamental question proved to be this : can the job creation and training schemes for West Belfast succeed in turning round the economic marginalisation and discrimination which the area has traditionally experienced ? |
| 8 | Did they big mooths next door huv tae clipe about the topless gogo dancing in the Albany ? |
| 9 | Not so , as last week 's pro-blood sports advertisement in the Daily Telegraph ( talk about preaching to the converted ) amply proved . |
| 10 | What I talk about relates to the global image of what Good News means , ’ Mr McKay said . |
| 11 | Ideally , we should feel as comfortable working with logged GNP per capita or life expectancy cubed as we feel about working with the raw numbers . |
| 12 | There is a strong connection between the concept of " function " , and the concept of " meaning " : when we talk of meaning in the broad sense of " overall significance " , we include the implications which an utterance has regarding the intention of the speaker and the effect on the hearer . |
| 13 | Yet sometimes that is what I feel like doing to the psychological and emotional crutches which are marketed as folk religion . |
| 14 | If you feel like withdrawing from the hurly burly and being reclusive , then do so and take this opportunity to recharge your batteries , and your energy will return soon . |
| 15 | Now we continue by looking at the inside workings of the process at the national level , beginning with a discussion of executives and assemblies . |
| 16 | Industrialists , who have acquired power and influence without passing through the mollifying tunnel of public school , Oxbridge and the professions , have always represented a potential challenge to the old order . |
| 17 | However , additional peaks arise from focusing of the scattered trajectories at the edge of the blocking cones of neighbouring atoms . |
| 18 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 19 | The schemes of their economic alliance , Caricom , rarely come to much , because its members buy little from each other , and compete in selling to the outside world . |
| 20 | We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes . |
| 21 | I start by agreeing with the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) that asylum seekers should be guaranteed good legal advice and representation . |
| 22 | Start by scraping off the existing glue residue from the underside of the bridge , and from the table , with a Stanley knife . |
| 23 | These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead . |
| 24 | What slight hope the East London club retain of sharing in the projected Premier League bonanza was dimmed further here by two pieces of sloppy defending that allowed Chelsea to end a run of four games without a win more easily than the one-goal margin might suggest . |
| 25 | Indie rock is the traditional playground of scruffy teenagers approaching college age who prefer to celebrate gazing at the stars than admit to peeking at the opposite sex . |
| 26 | How much does society lose by producing at the free market equilibrium point E rather than at the socially efficient point E ' ; ? |
| 27 | The difficulties that public sector graduates have in getting into the senior positions in the professions have little to do with their academic accomplishments and much to do with the cultural stratification in society of which academic institutions are a part . |
| 28 | So far I have tried to argue that the competences people have in dealing with the outside world vary in kind , adequacy , number and distribution . |
| 29 | experience in dealing with the learned professions and the controlling authorities . |
| 30 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |