Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific . |
| 2 | Especially when she has a little TK ability that can perform many manipulations beyond the reach of her hands . |
| 3 | Many has a how legs lamb ? |
| 4 | was designed to fit an instrument box measured 155mm x 79mm x 91mm which has a clip-together plastic top and bottom with drop-in aluminium front and rear panels . |
| 5 | Following the successful launch of the Sainsbury 's Book of Children 's Cookery , the company sponsored a Today newspaper competition in which children were asked to answer questions about food and cooking . |
| 6 | The shift toward standard English is associated with young Black women — not older Black women or white women ( who do not , of course , speak Gullah , but do speak a strongly nonstandard variety ) . |
| 7 | His penal thinking was an application of his general philosophy that law and government should pursue ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ , which logically led him to espouse a purely reductivist approach to punishment , with no place for retributivism of any description . |
| 8 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 9 | Though most rural settlements practised a predominantly subsistence economy , they needed certain goods and commodities from elsewhere which they could not provide themselves , and they were usually dependent on and subsidiary to somewhere else in terms of ownership , administration , and religious provision . |
| 10 | However , the issue is a lively one today , since some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook ( arguing , for example , that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder ) which other moral philosophers see as the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism . |
| 11 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 12 | In specimens from normal or alcoholic patients , expression of Lewis antigens was mainly in small bile ducts and showed a predominantly luminal pattern , while in the cholestatic disease groups , expression was mainly cytoplasmic and was seen in small and large ducts ( Fig 1(C) and ( D ) ) . |
| 13 | N. Have you ever had a gnarly car incident ? |
| 14 | erm Anybody that 's well-organized , good at clerical operations , preferably can type a little bit even though , if only perhaps with a few fingers , erm would make a perfectly computer operator for a small firm . |
| 15 | Thus although the authorities had their wish and Leese was effectively silenced for six months , during which time the IFL became a virtually moribund organization , the Rex v. |
| 16 | Scarborough have arranged a 12.30pm Christmas Day inspection . |
| 17 | Given a correctly operating system advantages are considerable . |
| 18 | By the late 1870s , however , they had developed a truly Jacobin approach . |
| 19 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |
| 20 | Well I got a little Dundee cake . |
| 21 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 22 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 23 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 24 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 25 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 26 | DES Circular 8/86 referred to the ‘ important safeguards ’ offered by these sections against what the side note to section 44 refers to as ‘ political indoctrination ’ — indicating a somewhat alarmist approach overall . |
| 27 | He pulled a paper from his pocket and began to read a poem , assuming a somewhat falsetto voice . |
| 28 | The far Left is riven by fierce factional divisions both between Marxists and non-Marxists , and between different schools of Marxist thought , and the chiliastic vision of anarchism has remained a distinctly minority current . |
| 29 | It also campaigned for maternity benefit to be paid to the mother and for maternity care to be improved , and , under Margaret Llewelyn Davies 's leadership , took a strongly pacifist line . |
| 30 | 10:17 gives a slightly difference order for the middle section — Gershonites and Merarites carrying the tabernacle , then Reuben , Simeon and Gad , followed by the Kohathites with the sanctuary . |