Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific . |
| 2 | Weights then dropped and a mere one and a half ounces separated the next three anglers as Middlesbrough Newman Scott 's Alan Webb edged into runner-up position landing a mainly skimmer bream net of 3.3.8 to feeder and maggot off the grassy bank . |
| 3 | W : Every non-empty set of positive integers contains a least member . |
| 4 | Invoking principle W we see that S contains a least member — let us call it c . |
| 5 | Proof of Theorem 1.2.9 unc [ Here we wish to show that every non-empty set of positive integers has a least member so … ] assume [ to the contrary ] that there is a non-empty set T , say , of positive integers such that T has no least member . |
| 6 | If unc then [ S is a non-empty set of positive integers and ] principle W asserts that S has a least member . |
| 7 | Then the set unc is non-empty and so [ since we are assuming W holds we can conclude that ] T has a least element t , say . |
| 8 | Scotland 's plight is such that Clyde 's goalkeeper , Scott Howie , will play against the Maltese in the afternoon ( the game has a 1.30pm kick-off ) and then turn out for Clyde in their Second Division match with Queen of the South at Douglas Park at 7.30pm . |
| 9 | The basic architectural module on which the echinoderm body is built has a fivefold symmetry . |
| 10 | was designed to fit an instrument box measured 155mm x 79mm x 91mm which has a clip-together plastic top and bottom with drop-in aluminium front and rear panels . |
| 11 | Following the successful launch of the Sainsbury 's Book of Children 's Cookery , the company sponsored a Today newspaper competition in which children were asked to answer questions about food and cooking . |
| 12 | It uses modern technology to provide an extremely cost effective meal and it 's substituted with fresh items every day . |
| 13 | The shift toward standard English is associated with young Black women — not older Black women or white women ( who do not , of course , speak Gullah , but do speak a strongly nonstandard variety ) . |
| 14 | Despite passing a 7am inspection , conditions deteriorated and the Irish track was later declared unraceable . |
| 15 | Well just colleagues about the Burnsall dispute erm er clearly and I 'm just anticipating the views of Congress that since we adopted a particularly way of making up the er Dispute Fund , I think we should certainly adopt exactly the same practice in relation |
| 16 | His penal thinking was an application of his general philosophy that law and government should pursue ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ , which logically led him to espouse a purely reductivist approach to punishment , with no place for retributivism of any description . |
| 17 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 18 | Now they look as if lean and built a Where Pit was , built built close there . |
| 19 | Members receive a bi-monthly magazine , Nuclear Energy , as well as Nuclear Europe Worldscan from the European Nuclear Society and Atom from AEA Technology . |
| 20 | Though most rural settlements practised a predominantly subsistence economy , they needed certain goods and commodities from elsewhere which they could not provide themselves , and they were usually dependent on and subsidiary to somewhere else in terms of ownership , administration , and religious provision . |
| 21 | Copper had made a completely recovery , he was as sound as ever although a little on the thin side in an attempt to save his legs . |
| 22 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 23 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 24 | Much of Pushkin 's poetry exuded an almost Renaissance delight in the richness and beauty of life . |
| 25 | From these data , it is possible to suggest a fivefold classification of the fields . |
| 26 | According to Wickramasinghe , xenon at 40 atmospheres should provide a fivefold improvement in resolution over a water-coupled instrument . |
| 27 | Rates of remaining a never smoker in 1989 for the 2981 ( 98% ) for whom smoking status was known at this first follow up were 85% in the control group , 82% in the FSE group , 81% in the SAM group , and 84% in the FSE/SAM group . |
| 28 | Rates of remaining a never smoker for this group were : 74% in the control group , 65% in the FSE group , 70% in the SAM group , and 69% in the FSE/SAM group . |
| 29 | The logistic model , taking into account the factorial design and potential confounders , identified a significant difference in the odds of remaining a never smoker between the groups using the family and smoking education project and those not using it ( ( F 3 , 3 5 =4.2 , p<0.05 ) , the groups using the project being less likely to remain never smokers . |
| 30 | However , the issue is a lively one today , since some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook ( arguing , for example , that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder ) which other moral philosophers see as the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism . |