Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ‘ incidence ’ , economists mean where the tax burden falls — who pays . |
| 2 | More of a wallet than a purse , it still lay where the man had dropped it . |
| 3 | It is not a relationship in which rules are kept because of either fear or the belief that such action will bring some reward . |
| 4 | Small changes in the choices we make or the way we behave can make us part of the solution rather than the problem . |
| 5 | I want or the rock and roll one . |
| 6 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 7 | On the existing assets , the statisticians suggest that the allowance for depreciation should be £134m . |
| 8 | They suggest that the models may be linked , and further suggest that the direction of the causal link between participation and satisfaction is not entirely clear : possibly satisfaction leads to participation and not vice versa . |
| 9 | Lawyers and political scientists living in Gaza suggest that the organisation controls no more than 30% or 40% of the 60% of Gazans who are politically involved . |
| 10 | But more recent data obtained from M. fascicularis , in which the foveal ganglion cells densities were estimated from sections and displaced amacrine cells were explicitly identified using immunocytochemistry , suggest that the peak density near the fovea might be somewhat higher , and the average density in the peripheral retina lower , than the earlier estimates of M. mulatta r 11,18 . |
| 11 | These observations suggest that the peak β cell mass may be determined early in life , even during gestation , and the factors that influence it are likely to be important in the development of diabetes . |
| 12 | West Yorkshire police statistics suggest that the peak age for the offence of taking a vehicle without consent is 15 . |
| 13 | There are no surface features on the Moon which suggest that the Moon ever had an atmosphere or oceans . |
| 14 | These procedures are not framed in words which suggest that the determination is likely to be controversial . |
| 15 | Earthworks in the area suggest that the village was once larger than it is today . |
| 16 | These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 17 | The experiments with clock-shifted pigeons , however , strongly suggest that the sun supplies their preferred compass . |
| 18 | In their different ways , both absolute and relative concepts suggest that the struggle to make ends meet is fought out in and against the routines which sustain health ; in the routines of buying bones from the butcher and not buying new shoes for the children . |
| 19 | Such correspondences — and Barth underlines the pun — suggest that the novel is a multiple palimpsest with one textual layer over another and the roles of textual producer and fictional character constantly blurring together . |
| 20 | Several reports also suggest that the absorption of other nutrients than water , such as hexoses , amino acids , and fatty acids , are decreased in the inflamed jejunum . |
| 21 | ‘ Rational ’ — a word that can take on various meanings and get one into all sorts of trouble — is here being used to describe those models that ignore organizational behaviour and suggest that the decision-maker has near-perfect knowledge , power and insight , needing merely to conduct the necessary analysis and implement it . |
| 22 | These data suggest that the selection of a relative who gives moral support is related partly to the composition of the kin group and partly to the quality of a particular relationship over a long period of time . |
| 23 | The preceding chapters of this Report suggest that the outlook for music in the Church of England is an uncertain and , in many ways , disturbing one . |
| 24 | But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy . |
| 25 | A sandy or silty bottom indicates slow currents whereas stones and gravel suggest that the current over the bed is quite strong . |
| 26 | All these developments suggest that the phenomenon of EPZs has its own life cycle and that policy must adjust accordingly , however difficult that may prove in practice . |
| 27 | Once the baby is born , bouts of anger , sulking and withdrawing in the early stages of parenthood suggest that the identification continues ; men can sometimes be as post-natally depressed as their partners . |
| 28 | These suggest that the bulge is permeated by very hot gas with temperatures near 10 8 K ( hotter than the centre of the Sun ) and densities 0.03–0.06 hydrogen nuclei per cubic centimetre , corresponding to a pressure nearly 1,000 times higher than that measured in the solar vicinity . |
| 29 | I suggest that the mirror has severe distortions , and perhaps Harley is seeing things grossly out of proportion . |
| 30 | These findings suggest that the enrichment of Desulfovibrio within the siderite concretion may be an important feature , controlling growth of the concretion . |