Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 4 | erm , I ca n't read it too well cos I 've only had about couple of lessons on it . |
| 5 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 6 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 7 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 8 | Do you remember what I said about the the er structured thought pattern you 've now got in front of you , let me go to mine which is all blank . |
| 9 | I 've even cried in front of them , which is not something I do easily . |
| 10 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 11 | Socialists have long fought for security of tenure for council tenants , so this represents a major gain in the housing struggle . |
| 12 | The violence in Belgium , India , Yugoslavia and the problems in Canada have all resulted from fear of domination by one group within the federation ( Walloons , Hindus , Serbs , English speaking Canadians , respectively ) . |
| 13 | Women who have only worked for part of their adult lives may not have enough contributions to get a full basic pension on their own record . |
| 14 | We can not check this independently by re-examining the original one , not because we can not re-examine the original one but because everything we can do in the way of a re-examination is just doing again what we have already done in thinking of the new sensation as relevantly similar to the old one . |
| 15 | The 12,000 crowd expected in Sheffield will be the largest the Coopers have ever played in front of but the publicity that would accompany Olympic success for Great Britain could make Ian into hockey 's first Gazza-figure . |
| 16 | The committee of the Rugby club have recently decided in favour of holding further talks with a company representing the Argyle Group regarding an offer of £5 million to purchase the site for use as a supermarket and filling station . |
| 17 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |