Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We suggest that working-class people make rather more of a ‘ thing ’ of the whole business than do middle-class people , irrespective of their religious beliefs .
2 O God , give your grace to the United Nations Organisation in all its manifold work ; in its work for the children who suffer so much from the injustices of our society , in education and in health , in the relief of poverty and hunger , and in its work for peace .
3 To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves .
4 Finally , can I thank , on your behalf , the sterling efforts of all heads of departments and staff at Trinity Road , and all my colleagues in our Council and Committees whose efforts mean so much to the work of the Association .
5 In the first of a regular series , we bring together some of the practical designs and circuits which first appeared in the US magazine EDN .
6 Among all the letters in Anselm 's letter collection written by others than himself , there are no others which display so much of the heightened emotion of friendship characteristic of Anselm 's own letters , and they show Osbern 's state of near despair at Anselm 's long delay .
7 It was like the course of trials which underline so many of the great myths and fairy stories and narratives .
8 They are not quite like anybody else , anywhere , and they are especially different from the Slavs and Turks and Arabs who occupy so much of the neighbouring part of the world .
9 Now critics of contemporary systems say so much for the worse for contemporary system , we have to move to one of the other models , maybe suitably amended and only then will we be truly free and equal .
10 And with a fabulous climate of around 250 days of sun a year , tempered by refreshing sea breezes , this southern shore has become a paradise for those who want not more from a holiday than relaxation or sport or a combination of the two .
11 ( iv ) After the eggs have settled to the bottom of the dish , replace as much of the hyaluronidase solution as possible with warm M2 + BSA , collect the eggs by mouth pipette and wash them free of cumulus cells by repeated passage through further washes of M2 + BSA .
12 As an apologia for New York 's fiscal tangle , though , they say as much about the nomenklatura as about the inevitability of $10 billion budgets .
13 Archaeological analyses say as much about the interpreters as about the extinct cultures .
14 ‘ We read all the files and interview as many of the child 's previous carers as we can .
15 Nor , judging by the bravura new stories , do the women writers of the 1990s expect as much from the future as their forebears did : old age is portrayed as painfully grim and burdensome in Candia McWilliam 's twilight home tale ; the classy heroine of Emily Prager 's Moonwalk still weeps over wrecked love and dreams .
16 Campaigners say even those in the medical profession do n't know how to help .
17 When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story .
18 We apologise both to Dr. Langellier and to readers ; and summarise here some of the points made in the first article , for clarity 's sake .
19 The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me .
20 They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily .
21 Note how , in an utterly different context , we encounter again some of the same charges brought against Gide and others with their sexual essentialism .
22 M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise .
23 The records of the parliament say very little about the nobility , yet it is probable that without their support the commons would have achieved few if any of their more substantial demands .
24 I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself .
25 The dynamics of the bar will drive material into the Galaxy 's centre but recent X-ray observations suggest that much of the inflowing gas is driven out again in a high-pressure galactic wind .
26 Examination of data on tax relief for private health insurance premiums for over 60s , general practice fundholding , and implementation and transaction costs suggest that much of the increased efficiency is not due to the reforms but to increased funding .
27 The biggest snag , says Mr Moore , is that some of the company 's employees expect too much of the new system , and are disappointed when it fails to deliver miracles .
28 In conclusion , hopes that the " outcomes movement " will become the " central nervous system that can help us cope with the complexities of modern medicine " ( Epstein 1990 ) expect too much from a promising development .
29 Teaching materials usually provide very little in the way of explicit rationale which would enable teachers to modify them in a principled way with reference to the ideas which inform them .
30 As with social class , the effects of the wife 's education predominate over those of the husband ( OPCS 1983a ) .
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