Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She plays for higher stakes than the ones you can offer . ’ |
| 2 | Every jumper goes through rigorous checks before they take the plunge , including a weigh-in to make sure they have the correct elastic rope for their size . |
| 3 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 4 | It also lies behind such developments as the medieval conviction that a monarch could heal by the laying on of hands . |
| 5 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 6 | Until then the diet of the wealthy was rich in spices and sugar and involved mixing fruit , both fresh and dried , with meat — a tradition which still lingers in such things as Christmas mincemeat . |
| 7 | Amenorrhoea develops in many patients before substantial weight loss has occurred and age-inappropriate gonadotropin secretion patterns are present in some patients who are weight recovered . |
| 8 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 9 | The tour took place immediately after the Sterling crisis in 1992 , so visits to such places as the Bundesbank , the German Stock Exchange and Deutsche Book were particularly interesting for the participants . |
| 10 | Ward ( 1971 ) found good agreement with the lower ( Reuss ) bounds on elastic moduli when considering the effects of orientation in low-density polyethylene , but in cold-drawn polyethylene terephthalate the elastic compliance lay midway between the Voigt and Reuss bounds . |
| 11 | ELONEX LOOKS TO GRAPHIC WORKSTATIONS AS NEW NICHE MARKET |
| 12 | As distinct from the four week experience of general practice which all of our final year students receive ( with a final objective structured clinical examination ( OSCE ) in general practice ) this university department of general practice has over many years provided generic clinical teaching for the department of medicine . |
| 13 | And this happens with electric irons as well , and another thing make sure your electric iron cable is in good working order . |
| 14 | Get born in Iran , emigrate to the US , get caught in a pot you should never have been in , and wait till it climbs into seven figures before you call and fill an 11–1 inside straight . |
| 15 | But in a series of remarks broadly encouraging to solicitors , Lord Mackay said the lay-dominated advisory committee would be likely to consider what happens in other countries where there was no enforced separation of the two functions . |
| 16 | This results in two relations as shown in Figure 3.29 . |
| 17 | Polygyny occurs in these environments because the short food-rich breeding season is a period of such abundance ( r circumstances ) that females can rear young by themselves . |
| 18 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 19 | It occurs in localized zones where these properties are functionally important , for example near the wing articulation of many insects and in the metathorax of fleas , where it forms part of the jumping mechanism ( p. 945 ) . |
| 20 | I 'm sure the ‘ What an improved player so-and-so is ’ syndrome often happens to other clubs as well . |
| 21 | Er I did ask the question as well what what 's going to happen to these trees or what happens to these trees when the City Council removes them and I 've never got an answer yet and I 'm going to keep asking somebody some day will give me an answer . |
| 22 | But what happens to those families when they 've been housed and they gradually improve their position , do we send our officers down and say ah , you 've got some money in the bank now , you 're not in need , get out of this council house we 're gon na give it to somebody else . |
| 23 | This depends on such considerations as whether the wider context includes an indication of negation or counterfactuality , and also on the lexical character of the verb with which the adjective is in immediate construction , since the property of the adjective is not applied to the entity in isolation but only as part of the property complex constituted by the adjective and the verb properties taken together . |
| 24 | There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down . |
| 25 | By looking at differences in gas yield for the same coal type at different levels of thermal maturation , it has been possible to demonstrate that gas generation from coals occurs at lower maturities than previously reported . |
| 26 | It may be hard to imagine a situation in which the onset of old age occurs at later ages than in the past , but a hundred years ago or less it was difficult to imagine the present situation in which old age does not effectively begin until people are in their seventies . |
| 27 | Yet a third type of relationship exists between nodal systems when a checking activity is also included ( see Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 28 | This particular problem also exists for statistical methods since they sample from the language and assume a reliable distribution . |
| 29 | This particular problem also exists for statistical methods since they sample from the language and assume a reliable distribution . |
| 30 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |