Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 2 | For Gordon it is fallacious to say that if a tribunal blunders in its estimation of the factors involved in a subject-matter properly before it and thereby misconceives the questions that it should consider , that it thereby exceeds its jurisdiction . |
| 3 | Coun Alan Robinson properly questions the figures and is equally right to stress that he means no reflection on the present , splendid incumbent or any of those before her . |
| 4 | Malcolm Bradbury 's story , ‘ The Adult Education Class ’ , nicely dramatizes the difficulties and dangers . |
| 5 | Do try to support these events as this not only encourages the organisers but also we are sure you will enjoy them . |
| 6 | The appeals court ruling greatly reduces the chances that Peter McMullen , who claims he will be killed by the IRA if he is deported to Britain , will be allowed to stay in the United States . |
| 7 | She is fiercely proud of the achievements of the cast and obviously misses the ones that have left — particularly Kylie and Jason . |
| 8 | He obviously misses the lads because he got on so well with them . ’ |
| 9 | The table below presents the causes and effects of acidosis and alkalosis . |
| 10 | The aluminium obstructs the ability of the fish to take in salt through their gills ( necessary to maintain their osmotic balance ) as it causes the fish to overproduce a sticky mucus which literally clogs the gills and makes breathing difficult . |
| 11 | Professor Jones , a professor of Scandinavian Studies at East Anglia University , added : ‘ Today 's political , religious and racial correctness not only purges the idiosyncrasies and quirkiness from Andersen 's language . |
| 12 | By comparison with the previous law , which confined the ground to that of serious public disorder , this greatly extends the matters that the chief of police may take into account in deciding whether or not to impose conditions . |
| 13 | Comprehension level is attained when the reader not only decodes the words but also understands what the words are saying . |
| 14 | The male alone guards the eggs and family . |
| 15 | A key issue which must be addressed in this debate is not what most favours the sons and daughters of those families already committed to higher education , important though this is , but rather which funding system will most likely encourage first-generation entrants to higher education from social groups not hitherto persuaded to participate , because it is only from these groups that the necessary growth of an education and trained population can actually come . |
| 16 | The accountancy profession is prepared to concede that it no longer has the resources or the right to safeguard the integrity of accounting standards . |
| 17 | By acting as agent the purchaser will overcome the problem that the vendor no longer has the books and records of the business and may no longer have any accounting staff . |
| 18 | For the cells which give rise to the lymphoma are white blood cells that secrete antibodies , and an antibody secreting cell normally rearranges the chromosomes that contain the antibody genes during its differentiation . |
| 19 | All too often the data the systems provide is not only technically inaccurate ( because it has not been updated in the last day\week\month ) it also no longer answers the questions that are being asked . |
| 20 | A vast chain of bank intermediaries thus links the suppliers and users of ECM funds . |
| 21 | With that impeccable sense of timing which so distinguishes all Trotskyites , Mr Blackburn wants to jump ship to a party that self-professedly regards the Conservatives as insufficiently vigorous in its pursuit of a free-market economy . |
| 22 | Although Alma Cottage no longer serves the omelettes that Jim Brading ( and Ransome ) loved so much , it still survives ; so too does the excellent Butt and Oyster Inn . |
| 23 | Variety thought that the ‘ fact that so many of these gags depend on ill-concealed misogyny soon stifles the laughs that flowed more easily in a pre-women 's liberation era . |
| 24 | After the drive the hole doglegs left as a vista of azaleas and a fairway bunker — which scarcely troubles the professionals and appears more for decoration — opens up . |
| 25 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 26 | The local authorities are expected to assess and identify the combination of services that best suits the needs and circumstances of an individual , and to monitor the quality of care provided and to review matters from time to time . |
| 27 | He or she just makes the evaluations and makes the decisions and that 's that . |
| 28 | The Diocese already occupies the premises as tenant , and no change of use is contemplated . |
| 29 | It most expressly includes the churches and it most expressly includes schools to ensure there is no truancy . |
| 30 | The legacy of the different cultures which evolved within these four areas still influences the attitudes and ways of life of Yugoslav people today . |