Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Mill 's qualitative utilitarianism points towards a better alternative to the view that pleasure and pain are simply some kind of uniform sensation of which we want respectively , as much and as little as possible . |
| 2 | In this period of rapid social change , involving families moving from the countryside to the town , the support given by the wider network of relatives was of great importance for individual families . |
| 3 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 4 | We are therefore of the opinion that the faster two components seen in the SDS-sequestration technique correspond to a weaker subset of GC sites and possibly other non-GC sites as well . |
| 5 | Death during transport and in quarantine account for a further 20 per cent of each batch . |
| 6 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 7 | Basic to the idea of a level is the implication that a higher level goes beyond a lower level by including it , gathering it up and building on it . |
| 8 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 9 | In this context the authors note that ‘ equalizing ’ income differentials ( higher income to compensate for the lower attractiveness of some jobs ) are normally swamped by ‘ accentuating ’ differentials ( such as status and recognition following high income ) . |
| 10 | This example has all the characteristics of a sentence occurring within a larger piece of text , and illustrates quite clearly the need for a ‘ previous discourse ’ co-ordinate , as well as the more obvious ‘ time ’ and ‘ place ’ co-ordinates . |
| 11 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |
| 12 | It is easier to fit an extension to the inlet of a narrower radiator so the pipes can be reconnected than to alter the pipework to cope with a wider one . |
| 13 | Surveys will be made of recruitment to four manual occupations ( skilled and semi-skilled ) , using the methodology developed in the earlier study of non-manual occupations : selection of samples of specific job vacancies and interviewing the relevant recruitment decision makers , shortly after the vacancy has been filled , to question them about the whole process of recruitment from identification of a vacancy to selecting and appointing a new employee . |
| 14 | ‘ It is difficult to judge how far this attempt to appeal to the baser sort is dictated by the mere desire to be re-elected ( which , though by no means admirable , is , we suppose , understandable enough ) , rather than by any firm conviction ; or how far a re-elected Tory government would seek to put these detestable principles into practice . |
| 15 | In 1986 I discovered that low fat eating led to a leaner body . |
| 16 | This research builds on an earlier survey based on a postal questionnaire by following up some of the respondents to the questionnaire . |
| 17 | This research builds on an earlier project ( also funded by ESRC ) which was published by Paul Thompson , Catherine Itzin and Michele Abendstern as ‘ I do n't feel old : Old : the Experience of Ageing ’ , Oxford , 1990 . |
| 18 | The research builds on an earlier SSRC funded project which produced the first detailed anthropological study of an industrial town in the Scottish lowlands . |
| 19 | There are other poems attacking the Friend in which the Poet writes from a closer perspective . |
| 20 | In only one manuscript is the form of living related to the wider but familiar theological framework of the gift virtues . |
| 21 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 22 | It also means that you will very often have to use a heavier indicator because of the increased drag imposed on a thicker line in windswept water . |
| 23 | If we now add a breeze to this situation , the bubble of air tends to be blown away from under the model and the effect occurs at a lower altitude ( Fig. 5.8 ) . |
| 24 | Her mind searched for a safer topic . |
| 25 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 26 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 27 | After this citation of authority , the Court of Appeal drew attention to an apparent discrepancy between the stricter rule applied in the earlier cases , and that to which the later decisions appear to have given effect . |
| 28 | Congregationalism appealed to the better-off sections of industrial society . |
| 29 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 30 | Studentships are offered for postgraduate study within the field of Humanities at universities and certain other institutions of higher education ; they are available for certain courses of study and research leading to a higher degree , and for certain certificate or diploma courses not covered by the bursary scheme . |