Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 2 | He asked to go to the most demanding area and ended up in Smallhealth and Sparkbrook with a case load of up to 60 children . |
| 3 | She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him . |
| 4 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 5 | Although they did not offer any pathological data , they suggest that dilatation and curettage may be inappropriate in many cases and that guidelines should be developed to agree on the most appropriate patients for the procedure . |
| 6 | However , Tizard does acknowledge that the issue is complicated by social inequality — children who come into care tend to come from the most powerless sector of society . |
| 7 | The report also criticised the current boom in real-life crime re-enactments , which again tend to concentrate on the most violent crimes . |
| 8 | Personnel : Salary differentials 20–30 per cent over comparable civilian work tend to siphon off the better qualified . |
| 9 | Weasels , in any case , very rarely tackle mature rabbits , preferring to concentrate on the very small ones and on even smaller mammals . |
| 10 | Clearly , an unwholesome condition has developed in the previously productive , though often contentious , relationship between science and government . |
| 11 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 12 | It has been suggested , for instance , that wages in Japan are determined by mechanisms based largely on profit maximization , while Matsuzuka ( 1967 ) has pointed to the closely related variable of organization size in determining wage disparities , as well as age and duration of employment service . |
| 13 | Giddens in particular has pointed to the very varying ways in which Freud used the words id , ego and superego . |
| 14 | The material that has fallen into the more massive of the two galaxies rekindles the quasar at its core . |
| 15 | Chapter 3 has referred to the very low overall rate of national population growth in recent years . |
| 16 | The aptly named Extraordinary Dancers who were booked to appear in the highly sophisticated Folies-Bergère and then went on to tour the world |
| 17 | This year a robin has nested in the closely interlacing branches ; last summer there was a wren . |
| 18 | As time went on and the primitive physically competitive urges were becoming supplemented by the more devious mental ways in which one being could gain ascendance over another , the opportunities to use those beliefs were exploited by the more skilful members of the society . |
| 19 | A further deposit of maps , plans and charts from Mr R. Quentin Stevenson , mainly consisting of material used by the Stevenson family in their civil engineering projects in Scotland , has added to the already significant number of maps from this source . |
| 20 | In 80 years , GM has grown into the most powerful industrial conglomerate in the United States , and one of the biggest multi-national companies in the world . |
| 21 | The July , 1983 ‘ Andropov ’ experiment has built upon the more sensible of these measures , also reviving some of the decentralising features of the aborted 1965 reform : most interestingly , a wage norm based on ‘ normative ’ rather than ‘ quantitative ’ ( piece-work ) indicators , thus , ( it is hoped ) promoting innovation and productivity . |
| 22 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
| 23 | He has seen in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the emergence of a commercial " leisure industry " responding to a bourgeois desire to emulate the existing minority culture of the elite . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 25 | The House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee has argued for the more active use of fiscal policy ( in other words a more aggressive use of tax cuts in recession ) because of the constraints on interest rate changes caused by ERM membership . |
| 26 | This is then rotated and scaled , making the ‘ ball ’ appear to bounce in the out of the screen ( Sounds like you 've been at the loony juice again to me — Ed ) . |
| 27 | The authors of this study point out that because today 's youth is being failed by the parental generation where the all-important factor of mature superego-formation is concerned youth has turned to the more primitive and regressive superego-formation found in groups . |
| 28 | The company claims that unlike other safety kits , the Dixon Home Care has been stylishly designed to fit into the most modern fitted kitchens . |
| 29 | Trying to get an edge — which will count for very little unless the price is right , the IBM Personal Computer Co says that all its new business-oriented personal computers will be designed to comply with the most comprehensive worldwide health , safety and ergonomic standards by year-end : the promise covers desktop and floor-standing units , displays and keyboards ; it claims it will also be the first computer manufacturer in the world to test these products for compliance with the International Standards Organisation Standard 9241 , which addresses the health , safety and comfort of display terminal users starting with premium PS/2s . |
| 30 | However , more recently , concern has shifted to the more insidious problem which affects the entire population — pollution of roadside areas by leaded petrol . |