Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The authors are Rudolph and Margot Wittkower , and their theme is that while some artists succeed in financial and social circumstances without strain , other artists tend to Saturnine temperaments .
2 One possible explanation is that even though reproductive success probably varies more widely among males in these species , maternal rank has a stronger effect on the success of daughters since females remain in their mother 's troop and inherit her rank while sons disperse to other groups and may be unable to benefit substantially from their mother 's rank ( Altmann , 1980 ) .
3 In the endeavour to minimize the contributions work environments make to avoidable fatalities , state officials also play a significant part .
4 The pickup coil signals connect to analogue switches controlled by the first ( and higher frequency ) bistable in the driving divider chain , in order to isolate only those signals which coincide with the saturation waveform transitions .
5 This is especially true in applied areas , such as the study of psychopathology , where we are uncertain whether animals experience the same problems as humans and , if they do , we are uncertain about identifying which disturbances in animals correspond to particular disturbances in humans .
6 It tells us something also about the weight with which received connotations attach to long-established traditions : it was probably the pre-modern ( or at least pre-industrial ) , and at the same time the quasi-ritualistic motoric-gestural associations clinging strongly to the high Baroque style which attracted the rock group and their counter cultural followers .
7 Cohn ( 1971 ) presented evidence that summated auditory evoked potentials show a greater amplitude of initial output over the right hemisphere with click stimuli but higher amplitude over the left hemisphere when subjects listen to monosyllabic words .
8 Crusader castles cling to jagged crests or rise up from barren plains .
9 LANGUAGE & STYLE IN THE PRESS A readers guide to British Newspapers .
10 The Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel states that the parties consider the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aquaba to be international waterways open to all nations for unimpeded and non-suspendable freedom of navigation and overflight .
11 Huge rusting cannon-barrel legs disappear to frightening depths .
12 It is no secret that preachers refer to theological books when they prepare sermons .
13 While some goals refer to broad aims , such as efficiency or the pursuit of profit , these afford little insight into the operations of a specific enterprise , and so more detailed goals are normally of interest .
14 Broadly speaking , such considerations refer to two kinds of moral value .
15 The threat of a similar crisis involving a possible Western attack against Iraqi targets had been revived on Aug. 6 after the government declared that it would no longer grant weapons inspectors access to official buildings and ministries .
16 Line management roles refer to those positions which are directly concerned with the operational aspects of the business ( see figure 28 ) .
17 Modern Marxists respond to these problems in five ways .
18 Given the variety of strategies available to us for the pronunciation of words , it is not surprising that there are marked individual differences in the ways in which skilled readers respond to different kinds of words .
19 Concessions apply to senior citizens , students and UB40 holders .
20 Monaco has no political parties as such , but in national and municipal elections candidates adhere to different lists , including the Union national et démocratique ( UND ) ; the Action communale ( AC ) ; the Mouvement d'union Démocratique ( MUD ) ; and the Evolution communale ( EC ) .
21 George Soros , millionaire who made $2 billion out of collapse of the pound , funds aid to ex-communist countries
22 As pointed out above , it is known that extensive interconnection is a characteristic of the neocortex : thus the great majority of the input to any cell comes from other parts of the neocortex itself , and similarly most of the outputs go to other parts of the neocortex .
23 While manufacturers go to great lengths to produce the many excellent ‘ artificial ’ diets without which the fishkeeping hobby would certainly not have developed to today 's high standards , it is up to the fishkeeper to look more closely at the food requirements of his fish and provide what is necessary .
24 Again , the normal assumption is that these will be members of his or her own party , but exceptionally a coalition may be formed in which government offices go to other parties .
25 When SAVE heard Sir Horace Jones ' Victorian market was to close and the traders move to new premises in Docklands , we immediately contacted Richard Rogers , who had just received planning permission for the new Lloyd 's building , to ask if he would work on a refurbishment scheme .
26 It is well established ( see , for example , Giles and Smith 1979 ) that speakers accommodate to other speakers — in other words , make their speech more similar to that of their interlocutor(s) — for a variety of social reasons .
27 A data structure may also be involuted where entity occurences relate to other occurrences of the same entity .
28 Book-oriented homes lead to book-oriented children : a child brought up in a home where reading is encouraged as a major activity is more likely to read voraciously from an early age .
29 So , to what extent do BBC WILDLIFE readers conform to these guidelines ?
30 Please could you let me know if your insurance covers damage to these items , either by deliberate vandalism or accidental damage such as impact by a vehicle .
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