Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there is only one country , the United States , whose agents , organizations and classes are hegemonic in all three spheres , other countries and agents , organizations and classes are hegemonic , or realistically claim to share hegemony , within each sphere . |
| 2 | No industry can stand still — and it would be foolhardy to put the agricultural clock back , or even try to stop progress . |
| 3 | Hence , they develop quite rigid codes of behaviour , or group norms , which explicitly or implicitly act to create conformity among group members . |
| 4 | As the frontiers of empire contracted over the next half-century , the dispossessed loyalists were either to leave home and livelihood for the safety of the mother country or else endeavour to seek pardon and accommodation with their new masters . |
| 5 | By extension , then , conservation practices left undone , legislation remaining unheeded , projects that only serve to keep research officers in salary and which never leave the experimental station ( those things not done ) are also political acts and not just omissions , or non-events which do not need explaining . |
| 6 | Probably the most effective means is to find a task which is sufficiently simple that the patient can carry it out and thereby begin to experience success . |
| 7 | In this situation , firms find their inventories being run down involuntarily and so act to increase output . |
| 8 | This results in a gentle down-wave drift of water , which can lead to the accumulation of water along the coast and so help to generate rip and longshore currents . |
| 9 | Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body . |
| 10 | Unfortunately we do not always have enough stories from the diocese to fill the space available and so have to use material from other sources . |
| 11 | Such a system has become increasingly popular , Turner says , because companies are becoming increasingly interested in management accounting , and so need to have information at their fingertips at all times . |
| 12 | As you know I should very much like to return to work in some secretarial capacity at Yorhaul Limited after my baby 's birth and naturally wish to claim maternity pay , so please take this letter as formal notice of these matters as required under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 . |
| 13 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
| 14 | Standard policies include cover as listed in the table ( above ) and usually extend to include cancellation and delay , missed departure due to failure of public transport or car breakdown . |
| 15 | There 's a sense in which I think you are saying something which I 've often heard people say recently , and that is that in a day , in a time of rapid change , we personally and collectively need to make sense of where we 're going , our futures , in terms of our past . |
| 16 | Leith was still gasping at his audacity as well as at his discernment when , flicking a glance at the way her chestnut hair was fastened in a repressive knot , he inserted with another glance at her severe hairstyle , ‘ Now why would a beautiful woman , with equally beautiful hair , try to hide her beauty behind glasses which she clearly does n't need , try to minimise the beauty of her splendid hair , and also try to detract attention from what I clearly recall is a figure of delightful shape and proportions ? ’ |
| 17 | This scheme will cut down bills and also help to save energy , ’ he said . |
| 18 | To achieve the City and Guilds certificate you are put through your paces with written examinations , and also have to complete caterbase modules in a variety of subjects from food and beverage service to cookery processes . |
| 19 | These factors are differentiated by sex and race and also work to reproduce gender and racial differentiation in employment ( and unemployment ) . |
| 20 | Legume seeds , however , which are high fibre foods may actually increase biliary cholesterol saturation and probably predispose to gall stone formation . |
| 21 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 22 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 23 | Make sure you are motivated : Many women who want home births have had unsatisfactory births in hospitals and now want to give birth in the dignity of their own home . |
| 24 | At each outlet there is swanky retail space , used to sell every imaginable kind of car accessory , from compact-disc players and car televisions to designer car seats , sporty steering wheels and even perfume to make leather seats smell sweeter . |
| 25 | This particular passage ends with the sentence : ‘ the purpose of the underground press is ‘ not so much to dissent as to disrupt ’ , and its editorial policies explicitly and implicitly seek to overthrow society as we know it , and of this it makes no secret ’ . |
| 26 | Actors go there to rest for the summer and then try to get work for the autumn when the little theatres open again . |
| 27 | engendered studies that try to enumerate the demands for transport in rural areas and then attempt to change network and service configuration to minimize the subsidy needed and meet the demand so enumerated . |
| 28 | why do you send him to school and then have to do school 's work ? |
| 29 | Or was he going to give them his blessing and yet refuse to give custody of the child to Maria Luisa ? |
| 30 | Then they put the loo roll holders too close to the door and never seem to make allowance for sanitary towel disposal units . |