Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 2 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 3 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 4 | Who cares about ageing in the sun ? |
| 5 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 6 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 7 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 8 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 9 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 10 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 11 | What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks like pimping in the West End is a lucrative business . |
| 13 | Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) looks like running until the 2020s . |
| 14 | The ‘ war on drugs ’ looks like turning into a Norteamericano war on the peasants and the ruthless Maoists of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 15 | A COLLEGE course about former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher looks like turning into a giant flop . |
| 16 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 17 | The Chelsea ground where John Major and David Mellor spent their Saturdays in quieter times is the prize in a tussle which is already into extra-time and looks like heading for a replay . |
| 18 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 19 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 20 | The most promising argument in favour of W. having an exclusive right to consent to treatment and thus , by refusing consent , to attract the protection of the law on trespass to the person , lies in concentrating upon the words ‘ as effective as it would be if he were of full age . ’ |
| 21 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 22 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 23 | The advantage of heading towards the shore has to weighed against the possible disadvantage of lighter winds closer to shore because of the slowing effect of the land . |
| 24 | You may prefer the flexibility over hours this offers , but you should weigh the pros and cons regarding working for an NHS employer and sickness pay , holiday pay , pension , study leave and so on . |
| 25 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 26 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 27 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 28 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 29 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 30 | He starts by sitting on the side of the plinth , and the physiotherapist may use mobilizing techniques to reduce any spasticity in the patient 's trunk or arm . |