Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |
2 | While a number of discussions of the roots of urban unrest in the United States have noted the salience of political marginality in determining participation in violent protests ( Skolnick , 1969 ; Fogelson , 1971 ; Edelman , 1971 ; Knopf , 1975 ) , this issue has received relatively little attention in Britain . |
3 | Establishing the conditions under which plural reference is possible or even preferred has received relatively little attention until recently . |
4 | Whilst much has been written about its open fields , the community at Laxton has received relatively little attention . |
5 | Another mechanism which has previously been considered important is the repression of emotional events ( Freud , 1915/1957 ) , although there is some support for such an effect in the long term studies of personal memories discussed later , repression as a mechanism has received relatively little attention in the recent literature in cognitive psychology . |
6 | Italy has received comparatively little attention , although many of its foremost artists also turned to book illustration at least once in their working lives . |
7 | Popular music has received very little assistance from the various Arts Councils whose job is to disburse monies from the state and local authorities . |
8 | The subsidy implicit in official guarantees has received very little attention . |
9 | The motor skills domain has received far less attention than the cognitive and affective , and objectives in this field are perhaps best devised from a study of the way skills are learned . |
10 | The idea of deterrence by denial , of making one 's own society hard to conquer , has a good historical record but has received far less attention . |
11 | There is another set of behaviours that has this characteristic and that has received far more attention . |
12 | The error message merely means the printer has received too much data and does n't want the computer to send any more across . |
13 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
14 | The RSPCA has received so many calls for advice on ostrich farming that its now drawn up guidelines to ensure they 're farmed humanely . |
15 | The course was n't advertised because the WSR has received so many requests from people wanting to ride on the footplate that it was able to pick out only serious enthusiasts . |
16 | The causes of economic and employment decline in the cities have been the subjects of the most extensive studies — no other area of urban research has received so much attention . |
17 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
18 | It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention . |
19 | Though this must be one of the main reasons why Germany has received so few Nobel prizes since the war , nothing more can be done about it . |
20 | Editor , — No other part of the body has aroused so much passion and misconception as the foreskin , mainly because both surgical and personal considerations are concerned . |
21 | If a politician has , or says he has , an opinion about ERM or about Ireland or about immigration , he stands to lose as many votes as he gains . |
22 | On the road , the Christian driver has pointed out those inscriptions on the walls of the Dog River . |
23 | In September 1965 , Walter Legge told readers of Musical America : ‘ The American public will have no idea of Karajan 's full stature as a conductor until it has heard how this Klingsor of operatic conductors conjures up his magic gardens . ’ |
24 | The jury in the Akers Way trial has heard how some people wished that the driver of a car which killed five young people , had died himself . |
25 | The court has heard how some couples lost their life savings after investing with a financial advisory service run by Christopher How . |
26 | The law on sex discrimination has provoked very little litigation in the educational context until the past few years , in contrast to the wealth of judicial consideration of the provisions concerned with sex equality in employment ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
27 | Ards enjoyed a record-breaking unbeaten run recently but were dumped out of the Wilkinson Sword League Cup semi-final by Coleraine during the week and they may find Frankie Parks ' cup rollercoaster has gathered too much steam . |
28 | The believer wants to see too much evidence for God — like Copleston , he or she wants proof — and hence the unbeliever sees no evidence . |
29 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
30 | In return , Sequoia has given up any ambitions it may have had in the telecommunications marketplace , but will sell the thing in competition with HP elsewhere . |