Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's on to the ball before anyone else , but he conserves the energy of his horses . ’ |
| 2 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 3 | The resulting poverty of the peasantry , who must find work in two different sectors to survive , limits their spending power and therefore discourages the purchase of consumer goods . |
| 4 | Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion . |
| 5 | Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject . |
| 6 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 7 | It also discourages the opposition from closing him down . |
| 8 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 9 | The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights . |
| 10 | Existing structure plan in short is erm set out in such a way that it pos positively discourages the accommodation of inward investment on a large scale . |
| 11 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 12 | In other words , the cereal-packet image not only neglects the diversity of family forms at any one time , it also obscures the changes that all families go through . |
| 13 | In isolation , Williamson 's discussion neglects the effects of organizational changes on distribution and monopoly power . |
| 14 | The foregoing analysis neglects the effects of firms ' other competitive variables such as product quality , product range and product differentiation . |
| 15 | But the common assumption that Pericles ' war strategy meant the total evacuation of Attica neglects the evidence for fortifications in his time , not all of which , surely , were abandoned in 431 ( see further p. 128 ) . |
| 16 | Another tradition , focusing on psychosocial factors , typically de-emphasises or neglects the role of these established risk factors . |
| 17 | But this neglects the force of Althusser 's emphasis on Marxism as itself a theoretical practice with its own history of epistemological self-correction , a possibility derived from the work of the mathematician Jean Cavaillès , who stressed the degree to which the history of mathematics , particularly set theory , could be accounted for by the dialectical development of the concept . |
| 18 | His deficit arises in a subsequent stage of attending to these figures , at which he neglects the left of figures wherever they appear , and thus can not judge explicitly whether they are symmetrical about the vertical . |
| 19 | CD is comparing himself as narrator to someone following a reel which unwinds the thread of the story from itself as it rolls along in front of him . |
| 20 | The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous . |
| 21 | This causes a build up of pressure in the solution compartment until , at equilibrium , the pressure exactly counteracts the tendency for further solvent flow . |
| 22 | Data presented here indicate that ( a ) resting gall bladder pressure and contractions induced by both CCK-8 and bethanechol are enhanced by inhibition of the NO synthase ( shown by our in vivo and in vitro experiments ) ; ( b ) these effects are specifically reversed by the NO synthase substrate L-arginine ; ( c ) sodium nitroprusside , an exogenous donor of NO , counteracts the effect of CCK-8 on gall bladder pressure ; and ( d ) a constitutive calcium dependent NO synthase can be detected in normal gall bladder tissue . |
| 23 | AN INTERNATIONAL jamboree on human rights fits the mood of the times . |
| 24 | He 's very good at his job and fits the mood of the times . |
| 25 | It fits the mood of the times . |
| 26 | Dressed up or down it fits the fill for every occasion and will be one of the easiest things you have ever made — try it in linen , washed silk or a floral print |
| 27 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 28 | Keith Cowie 's work fits the bill on all counts . |
| 29 | SWOOP : IAN CROOK fits the bill at Roker Park |
| 30 | A hypothesis which fits the constraints of the knowledge sources . |