Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hear John breathing , and in the distance , distinguish the dim shape of the sapper . |
| 2 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 3 | Two main differences , besides the obvious ones of speed , scale and aspirations , distinguish the French strike waves from the Italian . |
| 4 | In the previous chapter we identified the major variables which influence the current account of the balance of payments and examined how automatic and discretionary adjustments operate to rectify payments imbalances . |
| 5 | How far do select committees influence the general atmosphere in the House of Commons ? |
| 6 | The doctor 's expectations as to how the elderly patient should behave influence the actual behaviour of the elderly patient by non-verbal communication . ’ |
| 7 | Whichever factors influence the calving pattern , be it Autumn or Spring , each will have its own problems . |
| 8 | The variety of stresses that affect biological systems and influence the immune system 's potentiality are as follows : |
| 9 | In terms of policy influence the New Right captured the intellectual and political high ground in Britain and many other countries throughout the 1980s . |
| 10 | The target groups for a day hospital for dementing patients would be the 3 lowest categories — C , D and E. All category E patients would be included as well as a proportion of those in group D and a smaller proportion of group C. Although inevitably factors such as level of agreement to use day hospital facilities and the frequency of attendance of patients influence the final figure , 7–9 day places is not an unrealistic figure , though this exceeds current nationally derived guidelines . |
| 11 | This data enables us to draw clear conclusions concerning the presence of B II conformations within the dodecamer under study and also points to more general rules which influence the probable appearance of such conformations within other sequences . |
| 12 | Less obvious , but equally important factors concern the economic and market distortions which influence the comparative disadvantage of many areas . |
| 13 | Humans , when reading , often miss spelling errors , because their expectations of what the text should say , influence the visual system , so that they read the intended word , rather than what is actually in front of them . |
| 14 | They influence the pituitary gland , promote male characteristics and may affect menstruation . |
| 15 | It is by following up such topics that this subject can truly come alive for the reader — banking and finance ( domestic or international ) influence the everyday life of most people . |
| 16 | On this account , several types of information influence the on-line interpretation of anaphors , though for any particular kind of anaphor one type of information predominates in determining considered judgements . |
| 17 | POU domain genes encode a family of highly conserved transacting factors that influence the transcriptional activity of several cell type-specific and ubiquitous genes . |
| 18 | Economic pressures producing changes in family structure may , for example , influence the higher-order structure of society only a generation or two later . |
| 19 | Religious Education should provide the context for and substantially influence the whole school curriculum . |
| 20 | Fourthly , and last , there are variations in external context that influence the visionary process . |
| 21 | The objective at every stage of lobbying is to provide comments and reactions to those who influence the legislative process . |
| 22 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 23 | The many service companies , professional associations and various other firms and organisations host the traditional sausage sizzles , barbecues and Christmas drinks/cocktail parties , and all this corporate hospitality helps to set the Christmas mood . |
| 24 | But let us , for argument 's sake , concede the nutritional point . |
| 25 | His songs today bemoan the rotten state of the world — Aids , police violence , the homeless , his ex-manager — these are now grist to his mill . |
| 26 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 27 | They favour the Elven greatsword above all other blades ; a wicked weapon a full five or six feet in length , double-edged and razor sharp . |
| 28 | They favour the Elven greatsword above all other blades ; a wicked weapon a full five or six feet in length , double-edged and razor sharp . |
| 29 | They favour the Elven greatsword above all other blades : a wicked weapon a full five or six feet in length , double-edged and razor sharp . |
| 30 | The member states most concerned by the proposal — Greece , Spain , Ireland , Italy and Portugal — favour the three-month period proposed by the Commission . |