Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adv] [noun] " 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 | It uses modern technology to provide an extremely cost effective meal and it 's substituted with fresh items every day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From these data , it is possible to suggest a fivefold classification of the fields . |
| 5 | From the point of view of historians this can only mean that training must be broadened and will need to include a heavily element of information technology ( Greenstein 1993 ; Schürer 1993 ) . |
| 6 | We had a long series of various pieces of research , one of which was actually talk to enormous amount of customers through customer and as a consequence of that we 've we decided to form a fairly business to produce a very different pair of stores , different in that they wo n't trade in the traditional way that M F Is gone ah they 'll carry different merchandise , different price lines . |
| 7 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 8 | By the time he had developed a strong 40-minute routine , he was invited to do a solo spot on Channel 4 's Friday Night Live . |
| 9 | Comments : High quality auditorium with comfortable seating for over 250 people , with an adjacent tea room which is closed at evenings , and can be used to mount an evening–only exhibition . |
| 10 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 11 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 12 | Fiona , 34 , is leaving ITN 's News At Ten to present a 6am breakfast TV show with Michael from January . |
| 13 | The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game . |
| 14 | Golf Faldo forced to take a back seat to Walker Cup team . |
| 15 | But they might find it difficult to take a back seat and Whitehall believes that criminal intelligence will evolve into a top detective agency with an operational arm . |
| 16 | Today , with personnel management much more established , it is far easier for many managers to take a back seat and leave recruitment and selection to specialists and even outside consultants . |
| 17 | Many feel reluctant to take a back seat and allow their children to enjoy the special attractiveness of the teens and twenties . |
| 18 | Stipe continues to take a back seat on ‘ Endgame ’ , a largely instrumental piece with horns and strings taking centre stage while the singer ululates in the wings . |
| 19 | Despite the recent assault on its Director of Communication , the Church of Christ ( Eglise du Christ ) in Zaire is refusing to take a back seat in the process . |
| 20 | McDonough has just been handed his third suspension of the season following his sending off offence at Rochdale last weekend , and he is prepared to take a back seat for much of the rest of this season — if not all of it . |
| 21 | You 've not only you 're , you 're not only yourself but you 've got ki , your child to look , look after , you 've also got who you 're caring for , you 've got their emotional needs as well , and you 're emotional needs tend to take a back seat , for want of a better way of putting it . |
| 22 | Once again , community care was to take a back seat while the hospital services received the main attention . |
| 23 | The pain seemed to take a back seat momentarily , then he moved his right hand and it came thundering back into his mind . |
| 24 | Capped 10 times by Ireland the former Ulster captain was forced to take a back seat just before Christmas because of a recurring back injury . |
| 25 | ‘ The run is unique in Merseyside because it is aimed at the fun runner serious runners have to be prepared to take a back seat . |
| 26 | Son Stephen , aged 18 , had driven since he was a junior but decided the time was right to take a back seat to pursue a career . |
| 27 | But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all . |
| 28 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 29 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 30 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |