Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disruption to the shipping and insurance markets is expected to be limited but British Telecom moved quickly to restore services and provide the affected companies with links to ensure that callers could dial the usual numbers . |
| 2 | The designer uses the o to help design the other letters : first to define the shoulder of the n ; from that , the h . |
| 3 | Do n't be too proud to have a designer come and help design the basic pages you need . |
| 4 | Humankind and the apes shared the vertebrate form because both were created by God , but Owen could stress the anatomical differences in order to make it clear that the one could never have evolved from the other . |
| 5 | It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms . |
| 6 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 7 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
| 8 | Even private and personal information can evade the conscious controls or natural brakes , and an individual 's subconscious will transmit information that the conscious mind would otherwise never dream of releasing . |
| 9 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 10 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 11 | The more important security , structure and definition are to us , the more readily we will absorb the formal signals about expected behaviour . |
| 12 | He saw , with that sharp acumen that made the Heinz organisation famous , that Portland Place could not absorb the expanding requirements of a British Architectural Library , an architecture centre , and a professional institution . |
| 13 | If I give you some background to , to Moat and to the project itself , an and how we 're gon na approach the scheme I 'll then hand over to Alan who will talk about the design issues and the master plan and we 'll price the Three Hills and how they 'll they can meet that subjective . |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you spare the two children , Adolph ? ’ |
| 15 | Mum says we can stay the ten minutes as long as we ai n't a nuisance . ’ |
| 16 | Orange badge holders will be allowed to park on High Row and Skinnergate for three hours up to 10.30am ; those arriving just before the deadline can stay the three hours . |
| 17 | We 'll expose the broken promises of Number Ten |
| 18 | I , I could summize the sporting facilities for the pensioners . |
| 19 | The way was now open to an orthodox Christian philosophy which would contain psychology , history and poetry within it , and which would emphasize the Middle Ages ; it would embrace the Gothic Revival and the Oxford or Anglo-Catholic Movement within the Church of England . |
| 20 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 21 | Our fingers can imitate the primary feathers and we can fold the elbow in a similar way . |
| 22 | No robots or computers anywhere in the world can imitate the complex functions of your human body . |
| 23 | Some of those primitive men are so good at this that they can exactly imitate the different animals , and even other human beings . |
| 24 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 25 | The chicken can imitate the thermal characteristics of foods kept in refrigerators and detects temperature changes . |
| 26 | Other Nikiyas — Durante or Guillem — may for instance assume a charming Oriental fluidity in their arms , but only Asylnuratova 's urgency and amplitude of gesture can convey the destructive extremes of Nikiya 's nature . |
| 27 | He argues that the convention partners should affirm the broad principles of the scheme for a devolved Scottish parliament in the UK agreed before the last election and move on to adopt an educational role . |
| 28 | He seems convinced of the inherent stability of the hydrogen bomb — after all , he does build the damn things . |
| 29 | Wheels , rods , cranks , and other components were added so that boys ( girls were never specified in the advertising ) , with instruction manuals , could build the illustrated models . |
| 30 | We may note that , for both the matrices A and B , unc we may therefore construct the canonical forms directly from unc We now revert to ( 10 ) ; if for convenience we denote the columns of X by unc respectively , then as we have said above , only x1 and x3 are eigenvectors ; they make unc and unc vanish , and are each unique to a scalar multiplier . |