Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 2 | Thus some may remain forever the audience without the power to express their point of view . |
| 3 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 4 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 5 | The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease . |
| 6 | This means that leaded bronze is relatively weak and may explain why the statuette in Figure 5.2 , which has a particularly high lead content of about 30 per cent , was broken at the neck . |
| 7 | Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product . |
| 8 | But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ . |
| 9 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 10 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 11 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 12 | We may consider rather the analogy of carpets being brought periodically into a shop for display and rolled out one by one on a pile . |
| 13 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 14 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 15 | Another letter is being sent to every club president , but suggestions that the SRU should make public the names of offenders and their sentences have been rejected . |
| 16 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 17 | Accordingly , one must stress again the importance of obtaining the documentation referred to above in addition to obtaining witness statements . |
| 18 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 19 | The merger with the CBSI should slow down the fall in membership and thus the subscription base , though the eventual impact on reserves is hard to forecast . |
| 20 | In between , both Justice and the Conservative Political Centre brought out reports urging that the State should compensate financially the victims of certain violent offences . |
| 21 | If a husband wishes to set up his own business , his wife should think through the implications of having her husband at home all day , if she is at home too . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State must explain how the assumptions of the review team differ from the assumptions that he now makes . |
| 23 | But anyone who is tempted to affect an Old World condescension to the New ( ‘ a young nation ’ , and similar self-servings ) should consider again the date at which Canto 7 was written . |
| 24 | British Rail should consider again the arguments for electrification of the midland main line . |
| 25 | This is good traditional practice but the teacher should consider carefully the type of question to be asked . |
| 26 | Secondly , we should consider carefully the statutes of the monetary institution . |
| 27 | You should consider carefully the costs of this kind which relate to the course which you have chosen , and make allowance for further funds if required |
| 28 | If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . |
| 29 | Anyone still not convinced that the hungry fighter theory is flawed should consider then the case of Irish-American ring great , Jimmy McLarnin . |
| 30 | I do not suggest cause and effect , but authorities must consider carefully the effects of not implementing those measures . |