Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reduction in the number of toes on each foot parallels that seen in fleet-of-foot mammals . |
| 2 | Quite convinced that meeting you would dispel the fantasy , and yet at the same time did n't want that to happen at all . |
| 3 | Looking at the overall position , farmers might be forgiven for seeing little to cheer in these figures . |
| 4 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 5 | They lay half entwined like this for some time , occasionally exchanging kisses . |
| 6 | If not , can I make this happen with some form of manual override switch ? |
| 7 | I am ashamed to say that I have heard this said by social workers : ‘ all they really need is to be warm , comfortable and well fed ’ . |
| 8 | And has that changed at all ? |
| 9 | Believe me , intellectual age has little to do with emotional maturity . |
| 10 | Convertible prices always tend to dip in the autumn , particularly after a balmy summer , but the advice to buy has little to do with cyclic depression . |
| 11 | On Easter Monday an event takes place which has little to do with traditional Easter activities , but which has associations with a very old May custom , as we shall see . |
| 12 | The real reason the normally rabid and vociferous DQ was such a wimp with Phil and Luke Gangsta has little to do with inverse racism . |
| 13 | It has little to do with local regional architecture . |
| 14 | There are many such traditions , of course , and in fact the Hayward show has little to do with any of them . |
| 15 | As a result , the precise direction of innovation by the companies that introduce new technology often has little to do with improved efficiency or better production , but depends on the different political interests of the managers and workers involved . |
| 16 | For him the " prevailing intellectual climate " can not be relied upon to " complement and complete specialist training " ; nor can specialist training offer a " discipline " suited to developing the sense of " social responsibility " favoured by inter-war model of English studies , in its emphasis upon the past , has little to offer on those crucial " cultural " questions of quality of living , " human ends as well as means " , or on the relations between culture and economic processes . |
| 17 | What has this to do with interactive multimedia ? |
| 18 | You describe yourself as an intuitive rather than an analytical collector ; has this changed at all over the years ? |
| 19 | Has this occurred in this case ? |
| 20 | Together , books and television form a useful alliance which has another set of special characteristics . |
| 21 | It also appropriates this amount to individual votes , and performs the sane function for the lump sums authorized by the preceding winter and spring Consolidated Fund Acts in respect of the previous year , and for excess votes in respect of the year before that . |
| 22 | But we tried this get round that . |
| 23 | The report of this inquiry found that some ill-treatment of patients had indeed taken place but also it found much to criticize in general : lax standards of nursing , inadequate medical care , poor conditions and bad management . |
| 24 | If the air around the St Lawrence Ground is thick with optimism , the rise of Mark Ealham has much to do with that . |
| 25 | The NHS has much to learn from other industries and organisations that have been through similar changes . |
| 26 | The rolling Midland landscape , even despite the amount of modern hedgerow removal , still has much to offer in visual terms . |
| 27 | We believe the principles and experiences of the community development process has much to contribute to such a new model . |
| 28 | History has much to contribute to vocational education in both its narrower and broader definitions . |
| 29 | This has all come as welcome news to the Anglo American Corporation , South Africa 's biggest industrial and mining group . |
| 30 | Following a full day of debate on the Loyal Address and two days on the Second Reading of the Bill , the country is none the wiser about what the Labour party proposes on local government finance , save in one crucial respect : we now know that it is committed to ending all control on local authority expenditure . |