Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you will discover in the remaining chapters , problems remain about specifying the actual functions of these modules , their degree of functional independence , and the consequences of functional independence for the integration of behaviour and consciousness . |
| 2 | Anyone could be forgive for thinking the Happy Holiday Hotel was a madhouse , with its bizarre collection of staff and its temperamental manager , George . |
| 3 | In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution . |
| 4 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |
| 5 | Unlike the moths , which , we have seen , ignore relative pheromonal concentrations , and simply fly upwind , ants steer by balancing the pheromonal concentration to the right and left . |
| 6 | Some of these theories concern a rather narrow aspect of the use of the mental lexicon ; others are broad in scope , and attempt to say at least something about all the linguistic activities which depend upon using the mental lexicon . |
| 7 | Between March 18 and April 23 the USC regime 's interim Prime Minister Umar Arteh Ghalib visited four Gulf states and Egypt , Syria , Tunisia and Libya , seeking aid and support in resolving the armed conflict . |
| 8 | The accessory indirect flight-muscles are the pleurosternals , tergopleurals and lateral intersegmentals ; they act by bracing the cuticular skeleton or by changing its elastic properties in various ways . |
| 9 | All you need to do is find four people , nominate a team leader , give your team a name , and register by sending the above information and a £20 cheque to The Training Trust , Financial and Legal Sector , 145 Great Charles Street , Birmingham B3 3JR by 4 December . |
| 10 | So , for example , the break in the earnings link for uprating the National Insurance pension in 1980 has resulted in cumulative savings of some £16,000 million . |
| 11 | A hip movement towards the swinging line will also help , but beware of moving the whole body towards the sail as this will encourage a catapult fall . |
| 12 | Standard bearer 's like a pole it was a pole they held , that 's what the Roman soldiers look like look the Roman legionnaires and the standard bearer had a pole with shields on it . |
| 13 | The Tories , the victors in the battle of ideas , look like losing the political war . |
| 14 | The changes that have occurred since 1979 in the pattern of long term care for older people in Leicestershire , above and beyond the aging of the general population , highlight some of the challenges that many local authorities face in implementing the final phase of the ‘ Caring for People ’ community care reforms . |
| 15 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 16 | Co-ordinating wall coverings are available in little triangles , dots and miniature abstract prints , but because the focus of the collection is on the borders , it is possible to put up just a new border and save on decorating the whole room . |
| 17 | Facial expression is a rich source of information regarding the emotional state of the individual and some evidence of this can be found in the amount of space and time authors and playwrights give to describing the facial changes in their characters . |
| 18 | This is the most satisfying of all the manoeuvres since with enough speed and with the daggerboard retracted the board is turned like a surfboard or ski by weighting the inside edge . |
| 19 | We begin by considering the steady-state conditions : and . |
| 20 | We begin by defining the variance-covariance matrix of the equation errors as : |
| 21 | We begin by searching the off-diagonal elements of A ( since A is symmetrical , we usually use the upper half only ) to find the element Auv of greatest modulus . |
| 22 | Begin by removing the existing collar , and place the chain over the head in such a way that it will slacken off when the pressure on the attached leash is slackened . |
| 23 | I begin by welcoming the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) to the House . |
| 24 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Stockton , North ( Mr. Cook ) on becoming a grandfather again . |
| 25 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Gateshea East ( Ms. Quin ) on being successful in the ballot , on introducing such an important subject for debate and on doing it so well . |
| 26 | However , we begin by discussing the financial assets in which they deal . |
| 27 | We begin by discussing the social cost of monopoly and other forms of imperfect competition . |
| 28 | They begin by challenging the current opinion that all peoples share basic functions of the mind such as logical and abstract abilities . |
| 29 | When trainees are allowed to begin interviewing on their own under supervision they have already been accepted as CAB trainee advice workers , but in the GLCABS structure where candidates begin by observing the interviewing process they may not yet have formally passed the selection procedure . |
| 30 | We begin by describing the steady-state behaviour . |