Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you will discover in the remaining chapters , problems remain about specifying the actual functions of these modules , their degree of functional independence , and the consequences of functional independence for the integration of behaviour and consciousness . |
| 2 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 3 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 4 | Anyone could be forgive for thinking the Happy Holiday Hotel was a madhouse , with its bizarre collection of staff and its temperamental manager , George . |
| 5 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 6 | Anyone who has had to teach a mathematically based subject will know the difficulties which students encounter in negotiating a new level of abstraction . |
| 7 | In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution . |
| 8 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |
| 9 | Insulation : thermal underwear insulates , ie , keeps you warm by trapping a thin layer of air in its fibres , or between you and your clothes ( which is why almost any vest or body can be described as ‘ thermal ’ ) . |
| 10 | Unlike the moths , which , we have seen , ignore relative pheromonal concentrations , and simply fly upwind , ants steer by balancing the pheromonal concentration to the right and left . |
| 11 | He quite possibly made that catastrophe recede by denying the aggressive Chinese access to Russian secrets . |
| 12 | BBC Enterprises has again thrown open the TV listings debate by lodging an eleventh hour appeal to the High Court . |
| 13 | From a scientific rather than a psychiatric standpoint , the most interesting aspect of these bizarre tastes is the opportunity they afford for witnessing the extreme chemical insults which the body can accept and overcome . |
| 14 | Break through using a sharp knife and tidy up the hole ; whittle a sharp edge all round . |
| 15 | Personality and temperament play a part in the attitudes people hold about maintaining a safe environment and affect their efficiency in carrying out the activities involved . |
| 16 | Sharp took an eight count after taking a hard left hook . |
| 17 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 18 | Some of these theories concern a rather narrow aspect of the use of the mental lexicon ; others are broad in scope , and attempt to say at least something about all the linguistic activities which depend upon using the mental lexicon . |
| 19 | ( Perhaps this is why it is claimed that boys ' academic performance is higher in ‘ mixed ’ schools than in ‘ boys only ’ schools : they benefit from having a whole group to be better than ! |
| 20 | Possibly in response to the stimuli given by the bishops ' public statements , the bishops found that local councils were coming to their aid and support in opposing the proposed educational revolution . |
| 21 | Between March 18 and April 23 the USC regime 's interim Prime Minister Umar Arteh Ghalib visited four Gulf states and Egypt , Syria , Tunisia and Libya , seeking aid and support in resolving the armed conflict . |
| 22 | The interests of the child reside in obtaining the best possible education , something that only regular attendance at school can bestow . |
| 23 | This is especially problematic as many points made later in the book depend on distinguishing the three notions . |
| 24 | Since Seia is coheir , and therefore already in receipt of a benefit under the testator 's will , the trust with which she is burdened is valid , and does not ( as in the previous case ) depend on construing a further disposition of which she is the beneficiary . |
| 25 | Is my hon. Friend aware that up to 500,000 jobs in Britain depend on having a sensible , controlled market , and that discipline and control of third world dumped imports can be brought about only if we have a sensible GATT regime ? |
| 26 | The accessory indirect flight-muscles are the pleurosternals , tergopleurals and lateral intersegmentals ; they act by bracing the cuticular skeleton or by changing its elastic properties in various ways . |
| 27 | Similar results were obtained when cDNAs from mouse , rat , and dog muscle were amplified for the complete α subunit by using a different set of primers ( data not shown ) . |
| 28 | The supermarkets benefit by getting a regular , consistent supply of what its customers demand in bulk . |
| 29 | All you need to do is find four people , nominate a team leader , give your team a name , and register by sending the above information and a £20 cheque to The Training Trust , Financial and Legal Sector , 145 Great Charles Street , Birmingham B3 3JR by 4 December . |
| 30 | Against the US mainstream culture of rose-tinted kitsch ( which Milan Kundera defines as ‘ the refusal to accept that shit exists ’ ) , bands like Big Black , Flipper and the Buttholes react by devising a near-catastrophic conception of ‘ authenticity ’ . |