Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes .
2 In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure .
3 Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year .
4 Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) .
5 However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work .
6 How , then , would a learned Roman Catholic scholar discriminate between the religious practices of his Church , which were acceptable , and magical practices , which were not ?
7 But these disagreements are ‘ small ’ in comparison with the barriers of mutual ignorance and distrust between the main representatives of the analytical tradition on the one hand and the main philosophical schools of the European continent on the other .
8 Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification .
9 The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ .
10 But what does " arguing a case " mean for a literary studies essay ?
11 The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know .
12 Final selection of the project , approval of the project for inclusion in the capital budget , setting of project implementation controls and post-audit review account for the remaining stages of the project cycle are covered in detail in chapter 5 .
13 The combination of fire and family probably account for the striking personalities of Ella Burrows and her daughter .
14 Since the patients in Newcombe and Ratcliff 's study sustained penetrating missile wounds of the brain whereas those of Hécaen and Sauguet suffered from naturally occurring lesions it is possible that aetiological differences account for the discrepant findings .
15 We believe that methodological limitations of the lactulose hydrogen breath test may explain the present results and account for the reported controversies .
16 It also seems Auxetophones account for the large numbers of records made by both candidates for the American Presidential Election of 1908 , which were recorded by Victor , the Gramophone Company 's American partner .
17 Three major causes account for the ensuing periods of upheaval which culminated in the establishment of a less formal relationship between the press and the political parties in the late 20th century :
18 The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park .
19 Taken together , these forms of differentiation have produced a highly complex pattern of cultural diversity , although the existence of this cultural pluralism must not be taken to imply a basic equality of power and influence between the various groups .
20 Not only is there dispute about the long-term effects of new technology on skill level , but there is also , closely bound up with this issue , the question of how jobs of the future will be organised .
21 Sweden , who beat England last month , need only avoid a heavy defeat in Poland a fortnight today to head the group and qualify for the final stages .
22 I mean after the armed police officers but before you ?
23 One exception is that the Menil Foundation specifically asked for the Philip Wilson Publications imprint for the eagerly-awaited Volumes II and III of David Sylvester 's Rene Magritte , catalogue raisonne , Vols .
24 The control room is part of the communications channel between the human operators and the mechanisms and its design , as a man-machine interface , is one of the key ergonomics problems in power stations .
25 At this point we might begin to talk about ‘ the state ’ as something which extends beyond government ( and especially beyond the Government of the day ) and the part which it plays in ordering our lives through its claims to guarantee , represent and provide for the common interests of its citizens .
26 By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility .
27 The paraphernalia of capitalism — the banks , mortgages , moneylenders , credit , exchange rates , inflation , Jewish competition , Polish labour — these were all things that German small business had learned to fear and mistrust as its economy had , without the buffer of empire , ridden the rollercoaster of boom and slump between the Franco-Prussian wars and the Great War .
28 Others long for the new horizons , the flexibility and choice it will give them .
29 Send for the above offers or mail order details to : The Bradley Gallery .
30 Now you can send for the ambulance , send for the straitjacket , send for the little men in white coats .
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