Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time . |
| 2 | Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes . |
| 3 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
| 4 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 5 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 6 | Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) . |
| 7 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 8 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 9 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 10 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 11 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 12 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 13 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 14 | How , then , would a learned Roman Catholic scholar discriminate between the religious practices of his Church , which were acceptable , and magical practices , which were not ? |
| 15 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 16 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 17 | They should be aware at least of the extent of variation among Englishes , and distinguish between the linguistic adequacy of a variety and the social evaluation of it . |
| 18 | But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China . |
| 19 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 20 | But these disagreements are ‘ small ’ in comparison with the barriers of mutual ignorance and distrust between the main representatives of the analytical tradition on the one hand and the main philosophical schools of the European continent on the other . |
| 21 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 22 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 23 | Repeat for the other side of the arch . |
| 24 | Repeat for the required length . |
| 25 | If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage , then repeat for the further tap . |
| 26 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 27 | They are likely to be revised as the circumstances of mothers ' lives change through the 1990s . |
| 28 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 29 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 30 | For example , different instances of sounds that human listeners perceive as the same may have very different waveforms . |