Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal , factory unit or traffic warden . |
| 2 | This argument neglects the symbolic function of the labels applied by the law and by courts to criminal conduct . |
| 3 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 4 | A static model , such as that of Homans in sociology , emphasizing structural maintenance through a form of ‘ social approval ’ , neglects the inherent dynamism of reproductive strategies that necessitate risk in competition and possibly conflict for their fulfilment . |
| 5 | First , such a model assumes a static population-that is , it neglects the obvious fact that new generations of school ( the age group where use tends to begin ) are constantly emerging . |
| 6 | But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them . |
| 7 | with the red hat , and she dyes the red hat |
| 8 | IBM 's emergency board meeting ousts the entire management , but Thanksgiving by IBM employees is short-lived as it appoints W Michael Blumenthal to succeed John Akers . |
| 9 | When we look at the English writing system we see how badly it fits the spoken language . |
| 10 | The solid curve in Fig. 8.5 is the GR prediction and fits the changing delay as Venus moves through superior conjunction extremely well . |
| 11 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
| 12 | The woman 's killing the man seems metaphorical only , but it fits the present idea — that the one whose identity becomes submerged may want to kill the other . |
| 13 | This fits the stony coral 's relationship with its millions of single-celled plants ( zooxanthellae ) admirably . |
| 14 | The fact that you can turn the engine off and use it as a glider must extend the appeal of this unusual creature which hardly fits the general public 's notion of a microlight . |
| 15 | It is therefore Mitchell 's study which best fits the general argument being developed here . |
| 16 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |
| 17 | An international campaign against prohibition fits the Radical pattern : odd but just short of eccentric , controversial but with respectable supporters , and newsworthy . |
| 18 | In The Future of an Illusion , the use of the term ‘ religion ’ is one which fits the Jewish-Islamic-Christian complex of religions , which are built upon the notion of a Creator God . |
| 19 | ‘ Salutary neglect ’ is a description that fits the colonial policy of the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century , particularly when it is compared with the fairly active government of the late seventeenth century . |
| 20 | The sitting area , facing round a sensibly fiddled table , fits the 12 crew , but only just . |
| 21 | And fits the mounting spirit like myself ; |
| 22 | The figure , a generous one , neatly fits the American demand . |
| 23 | Rather , such theorists suggest that for any particular organisation the most appropriate structure is that which best fits the particular organisation , depending upon the relationship between a number of variables . |
| 24 | The rule of reason depends decidedly on the capacity of the sane to persuade others to practise some degree of self restraint and to maintain the legal order that best fits the ethical structure of the polity . |
| 25 | At this point we must remind ourselves that Shklar includes as part of this ancient conception the idea of ‘ middle-class moderates ’ within the structure of politics who are able to persuade others to practise self-restraint and maintain a legal order that best fits the ethical structure of the polity . |
| 26 | Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 27 | Faris ( 1968 ) , exploring the way such symbols come to represent complex conceptual domains , coined the phrase ‘ symbols of high meaning capacity ’ , which exactly fits the structural significance hair has for police ideology . |
| 28 | Section 3(1) of the 1974 Act prohibits the unlicensed disposal of controlled waste . |
| 29 | Ministers insisted that both projects should be financed by the private sector and the Channel Tunnel Act specifically prohibits the British Government from subsidising either the tunnel or transport infrastructure linked to it . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the British Medical Association had said that doctors were bound by the law , which prohibits the deliberate taking of human life . |