Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | For example , some lawyers say the law of deception must be adjusted to include deception of machines rather than just people . |
2 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
3 | Data was gathered using variety of observational techniques which are described in more detail in the section 12 . |
4 | By making the income and capital gains from investing in such trusts free of tax , up to a maximum amount of 6,000 a year ( 1992 ) , it is hoped that such savings will be encouraged , thereby helping to channel investment into UK industry . |
5 | The beatitudes of Jesus show the way in which we can experience transforming happiness in our own lives . |
6 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
7 | Inevitably , unforeseen difficulties will arise to inhibit progress towards some targets . |
8 | For example , the highly Beccarian French Code of 1791 was soon revised to reintroduce recognition of mitigating circumstances , judicial discretion in sentencing and the prerogative of mercy . |
9 | Hardly anyone in France apart from the Lafons , and now Ostertag , dares to risk refermentation in bottle and the subsequent deposit of anything other than a few tartrate crystals in a dry white wine . |
10 | Pottery , for example , may be treated as art , science or technology , and within a discipline oriented scheme the opportunity will probably exist to classify pottery in at least any one of these three disciplines . |
11 | The tsar turned down Miliutin 's general principles on the same day he instructed Nazimov to continue canvassing opinion in the north-western provinces . |
12 | We have seen that recognised SROs are not expressly given rulemaking power by the FSA . |
13 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
14 | Partly for financial reasons , students now tend to attend university in their home town rather than travel to a city with a better department . |
15 | ‘ You tend to treat life as if it were a game of cricket , for one thing . ’ |
16 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
17 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
18 | This is felt to be an inadequate preparation for the work of life , because it tends to produce a super-abundant supply of an indifferent clerkly class and to create and foster a distaste for agriculture and the handicrafts , which are more indispensable to the country and are better calculated to promote independence of character . |
19 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
20 | Veritas has arranged to support Destiny with a cut-down version of its file system dubbed the Journaling File System and aimed at the desktop : the full product will come along later as a server upgrade . |
21 | The golden eagle , at one time persecuted to near extinction by game keepers , is now a strictly protected bird . |
22 | In addition to his work promoting the Contagious Diseases Acts , in the 1860s he also served on the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association , helping to draft legislation on habitual drunkenness , infant mortality and the examination and registration of midwives . |
23 | However , it is important for him and the Opposition Front-Bench team to understand that when we replaced the old supplementary benefit scheme we sought to target help on the people who needed it most . |
24 | 1 What will be the specification of the hand held device or devices you will want to include OALD in ? |
25 | Demonstrators on a march in Hong Kong on April 5 , organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democracy Movement in China , were urged by leading liberal Yeung Sum to cherish freedom of speech while they could , and to continue drawing attention to the denial of such freedom in China . |
26 | Case Management Application , has been developed using ImageFlow in combination with Plexus ' flagship XDP image processing software and is claimed to offer 70% of the core functionality needed to develop most vertical market imaging applications . |
27 | This work , which sought to strip Christianity of its supernatural trappings and present Jesus as ‘ an incomparable man ’ , was perhaps the single most talked-about book of its age . |
28 | There was no way he could risk incurring the wrath of a superior but he did n't want to lose manhood in front of his uniformed thugs . |
29 | The Asians will not want to lose ground in the mixed doubles in the build-up to Atlanta and the Belfast match will provide them with an opportunity to test the best in Europe . |
30 | ‘ I do n't want to lose control of my business . ’ |