Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble ? |
| 2 | Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble ? |
| 3 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 4 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 5 | One of the reasons for acquiring shares rather than assets is to ensure that all the target 's assets will be acquired with the business . |
| 6 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 7 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |
| 8 | Now this slide really takes the behind , takes us behind the first figure on the on the consolidated F R S One cash flow table and it really traces hard despite the reduction in profits , the very strong performance in working capital that Frank eluded to earlier means that er we actually end up with a net cash flow for operating activities more than thirty five million pounds higher . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly behaviourism diverted people from thinking about fundamental issues , like the design of a brain that is capable of generating actions rather than reactions . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , reports on July 20 said that Iraq had admitted to building a " super-gun " capable of firing shells more than 1,000 km [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ] . |
| 11 | The same increasing central control and rationalization can be seen also in the introduction in 1720 of a regular tariff for the purchase of commissions ; in the 1750s of the custom of numbering regiments rather than referring to them by their colonel 's name ; and in 1792 of a common system of drill , based on that of Prussia , for the whole army . |
| 12 | Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point . |
| 13 | The difference is that the tank provides for the passive task of soaking items rather than for the active role of washing . |
| 14 | This section is concerned with the method of establishing baselines rather than with the details of measurement . |
| 15 | The salaries of government employees such as doctors and teachers were subject to inflation and still suffered from the Soviet concept of paying intellectuals less than manual workers . |
| 16 | Shoe manufacturers , who are in the business of selling shoes rather than repairing old ones , understandably guard such items jealously . |
| 17 | The danger of selling features rather than benefits is particularly acute in industrial selling because of the highly technical nature of many industrial products , and the tendency to employ sales engineers rather than salespeople . |
| 18 | On the matter of emphasising obligations rather than rights , Wringe argues that in the liberal tradition the citizen 's most important obligation is in fact the defence of rights . |
| 19 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |
| 20 | As parasitic tissues generally depend for survival on a more rapid synthesis of nucleic acid than the tissues on which they prey , anything which stopped the synthesis of nucleic acids had a chance of harming parasites more than their hosts . |
| 21 | that I did have a brain and I was capable of doing things even though it was |
| 22 | Some early work in the United States ( Feldstein , 1975 ; Clotfelter , 1985 ) has suggested that the scale of charitable donations increases faster than the reduction in tax revenue and that the level of giving increases sharply if tax reliefs are given . |
| 23 | And the tendency towards appointing natives rather than Iranians as satraps after 400 gave a chance to humbler men who could rise as their masters rose ; Mausolus M 9 shows the satrap appointing two Karians to office in Xanthos . |
| 24 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 25 | Apple , in particular , have been building their repertoire of authoring tools ever since they launched their quintessential multimedia platform , the Macintosh . |
| 26 | There are many ways of categorizing activities so as to ration your time properly . |
| 27 | While the ability of organised skilled workers to restrict entry to their trade and to develop defensive strategies probably means their wages rose more sharply when the economy turned up , and fell less quickly on the downturns , this would have the effect of flattening fluctuations rather than of misdirecting trends . |
| 28 | Anthropology is bound up with the understanding of lived circumstances rather than abstract thought , the basis of anthropological knowledge being first and always ethnography . |
| 29 | Carefully logging the state of progress on all manufacturing and site work , they were able to determine priorities which were likely overall to increase the rate of commissioning of working stations rather than partial completions . |
| 30 | Fig 1 shows some methods of equalising slings so as to place an equal load on each anchor . |