Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you can do you can use exactly the same system you used on that for working out each one and see what happens . |
| 2 | You can adapt this for putting back three stitches on two needles by using the three pronged transfer tool . |
| 3 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 4 | Cigarette smokers pollute the air for other people but take no account of this in deciding how much to smoke . |
| 5 | Some thought will already have been given to this in deciding how many priorities will be tackled in the coming year . |
| 6 | The concept of alignment recognises how one member of a family system may oppose or join with another in carrying out some task . |
| 7 | Well football pools are a splendid started because recently somebody has won just over nine hundred thousand pounds , and it 's interesting to note that he did this without exercising too much skill , as I 'm sure he 'd be the first to admit , because he enters the same numbers every week . |
| 8 | He justifies this by proving mathematically that , except in highly abnormal viewing conditions , three views of a rigid object can uniquely determine its shape and motion . |
| 9 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 10 | Anything which attempts to reverse this by bringing in unfamiliar work from the past which students have a positive motive for wanting to read must be a good thing , and strikes a blow against cultural amnesia . |
| 11 | Section 27(2) ( b ) goes further than this by negating absolutely any governing law clause imposing a foreign proper law where the contract was concluded in the UK by a consumer then habitually resident in the UK . |
| 12 | It can do this by using specifically attention-getting devices — enormous headlines in the press , rolls of drums , whistles or other unusual sounds on TV or radio , flashing lights on TV or cinema — but these are likely to be artificially imposed in the context of an ad . |
| 13 | The physicists in the team got round this by taking rapidly alternating snapshots of the area in red and green light . |
| 14 | As sure as Concorde 's nose is pointed , the partners ' governments will have to subsidise this by coughing up so-called ‘ launch aid ’ . |
| 15 | A capital shares tax uses the concept of a wealth tax as a starting point — that is , as a means of raising revenue by a levy on wealth — but goes beyond this by proposing how this revenue could be used . |
| 16 | It achieves this by citing over 600 references up to 1988 . |
| 17 | The biggest danger is that of applying too much pitch at this point , causing the model to gain height again while dissipating all the useful blade energy . |
| 18 | The two power settings are really useful : normal ( 1 ) will pick up lighter debris , such as sawdust ; and high power ( max ) is helpful for tougher jobs , such as picking up small nails , although it wo n't pick up anything much heavier . |
| 19 | A department 's share of scarce resources depends upon the skill of its advocates in the use of essentially political tactics such as knowing how much to bid for , how far to pad estimates , how far to over/underspend , how to ‘ read ’ the political climate , how to generate and utilise public support . |
| 20 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 21 | In some situations , such as providing purely factual information , this may be the case , but insensitive memos have been known to have an adverse effect on the motivation of others and their willingness to carry out instructions . |
| 22 | Development banks tend to take a long time to evaluate a project and are likely to impose conditions such as putting out all construction and equipment contracts to competitive tender . |
| 23 | Restitching uppers , patching holes or individually tailored adjustments , such as lifting up worn shoes or altering the sole level , present little difficulty . |
| 24 | The most effective procedures appear to be those that use reinforcement for appropriate elimination and a punitive consequence for soiling , such as washing out dirty pants ( Doleys 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Although the King 's intentions were not partisan , the consequences were such as to offer very considerable benefit to the Conservative party . |
| 26 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 27 | Come , you can tell me so much without giving away any other man 's secrets . ’ |
| 28 | One history teacher , more imaginative than the others , not content with facts and analyses , supplemented these by reading aloud lengthy passages from the diaries or memoirs of people who had witnessed the events we were studying . |
| 29 | It is possible to programme variations on these by using both divergent and parallel curved and straight lines . |
| 30 | Another 54 food handlers in Hartlepool have proved they know all about serving up safe food for their customers . |