Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's on to the ball before anyone else , but he conserves the energy of his horses . ’ |
| 2 | Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance . |
| 3 | 14.7.2 Distinguish the tort of negligence |
| 4 | However , it is these measurable indicators which distinguish the service from many other education business strategies . |
| 5 | These differences distinguish the mouse from the human TEF-1 sequence . |
| 6 | ‘ Stylistics ’ thus becomes an essentially comparative study of the patterns of preference shown by the writer in his selection from the linguistic resources available to him , a question of the relative frequencies of choice which distinguish the language of his text from that of others ; it is an ‘ application rather than an extension of linguistics ’ ( p.217 ) . |
| 7 | Know and understand some practices and customs that distinguish the lifestyle of two religious/cultural groups and evaluate one of them |
| 8 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 9 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 10 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 11 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 12 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 13 | A massive 1000 t steel rotor with 10 m long arms could be spun so that the tips moved at 1000 m s -1 , equalling the speed of sound in steel . |
| 14 | Was he planning to restage the battle of Lepanto ? |
| 15 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 16 | The resulting poverty of the peasantry , who must find work in two different sectors to survive , limits their spending power and therefore discourages the purchase of consumer goods . |
| 17 | Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion . |
| 18 | Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject . |
| 19 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 20 | It also discourages the opposition from closing him down . |
| 21 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 22 | The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights . |
| 23 | Existing structure plan in short is erm set out in such a way that it pos positively discourages the accommodation of inward investment on a large scale . |
| 24 | They influence the education of children in enormously important ways , not just in terms of how many exams they pass , what results they get at O level or C S E , but on important issues such as education for democracy , the kind of climate that schools create for young people is very important in the way they see society and they see their role in it . |
| 25 | However , the free flow of funds between national and international money markets ensures that key domestic interest rates influence the cost of funds . |
| 26 | Many factors influence the profitability of different sources of energy . |
| 27 | What factors influence the type of crater and associated features formed by an impact ? |
| 28 | There is , however , an alternative approach based on the development of a new understanding of law , which no longer assumes that the legal system is uniform but realises that law is linked into complex processes of communication between and within different sub-systems of society , which in turn form and influence the substance of a particular segment of law . |
| 29 | Discuss the important standards which influence the rest of the computer industry . |
| 30 | Factors which influence the stability of the combination include the softness of the car and the trailer 's suspension , plus the balance of the trailer . |