Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 2 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 3 | The House will be aware that Ulster Unionist Members bitterly regret the need for the Secretary of State 's statement . |
| 4 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 5 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 6 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 7 | The scheme Branson was outlining would , Birbeck knew , effectively mean the end of the record industry as he , and anybody else , recognised it . |
| 8 | One-arm dumb-bell rowing — slowly raise the dumb-bell without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body |
| 9 | The appropriate response , however , is not to alter the law so as to allow euthanasia , and thereby arguably undermine the respect for life enshrined both in the law and medical training . |
| 10 | Find-spots rather favour the arrangement in fig. 124 , but the characterisation seems to fit better if they are made partners of the other men . |
| 11 | When we speak of our economic growth on the basis of market relations ( this is the ‘ meaning ’ of NEP from a certain angle ) , we thereby disprove the thesis of the opposition of socialist accumulation ( even ) to the law of value . |
| 12 | Suggested Compromises : The Purchaser to have the right of rescission for breaches which are ‘ so material ’ that they effectively change the nature of what the Purchaser thought it was acquiring ; any such compromise should ideally specify the measure of materiality either by reference to a specific amount of money or a percentage of the value of the business to be acquired although this may be felt to be impossible to quantify ; or |
| 13 | It is assumed that if all medical services are the responsibility of one level of government , then there will be no perverse incentive to close outpatient departments and thereby shift the cost from state to federal funds . |
| 14 | Others maintained that the ordeal of publicity was essential to ‘ effectively test the veracity of a witness ’ . |
| 15 | Both to provide for some self-containment , and thereby minimize the degree of out-commuting . |
| 16 | While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm . |
| 17 | This does , of course , greatly complicate the design of policy — both the substance of competition law , and the institutional framework for implementing that law . |
| 18 | When last read , the new regulations now being hatched quite rightly make the process of requalifying just as unattractive and that will drop the entire issue firmly back into the lap of player recruitment within this country , with all that entails . |
| 19 | In any case I do n't intend to discuss the visual arts as an example of non-verbal communication and I only introduce the topic of drawing to illustrate the extent to which antagonism to language has infiltrated itself into at least one important department of educational theory . |
| 20 | The project will concentrate on service organisations because recent attempts to improve the quality of service necessarily entail the development of high levels of trust : e.g. between customer and provider , professional and client , customer and supplier . |
| 21 | Thus there has to be some mechanism that would eliminate the very large effective cosmological constant and so change the rate of expansion from an accelerated one to one that is slowed down by gravity , as we have today . |
| 22 | Neither at Syracuse nor at Cyrene did the native element , which consisted partly of nomads ( JRS , 1978 , p. 224 ) , much influence the quality of Greek culture , except that the need to impress the Libyan locals may have had something to do with the long survival of the Battiad kingship . |
| 23 | And if that 's not enough , any design emanating from a music paper or magazine might appear to expose some underlying editorial stance , and in doing so raise the question of impartiality ( or partiality ) . |
| 24 | Methods of deforestation and subsequent management practices not only influence the potential for forest regeneration but also influence the impact of deforestation on runoff and soil erosion . |
| 25 | Each day , while you are bathing , soap the pumice stone and gently rub the area to be treated . |
| 26 | In this pavement — as in others of a comparable design — the squares have assumed an overall structural importance and greatly influence the character of the work . |
| 27 | It is unclear why some patients apparently lose the improvement in motor function gained during biofeedback sessions . |
| 28 | The chairman of World Wide Insurance , Mr Brian Summers , told me : ‘ We greatly regret the death of Mr Davies , who was one of the unsung servants of golf . |
| 29 | Like the sugar tonics , the glycerophosphates have no long-term beneficial effects on health , and indeed perhaps hinder the body from restoring its own efficient breakdown of glucose to release energy . |
| 30 | Applied to clinical psychosis , information processing theories naturally highlight the disruption of intellectual functioning that can occur when the mind is overwhelmed by ideas pouring indiscriminately into awareness . |