Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientific knowledge counts for little in comparison , for it is the field man in the great majority of encounters who is the ‘ front man ’ , the public face , of his agency ( Goffman , 1959 ) . |
| 2 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 3 | In the UK it is commonly agreed that this happens at least in part because of the extent to which farming , relative to industrial , interests are " understood " in most Conservative cabinets ( and even some Labour ones ! ) . |
| 4 | That troubadour who passes by just in time to rescue the girl from a hedgerow scuffle ; the sudden but convenient Dickensian benefactors ; the neat shipwreck on a foreign shore which reunites siblings and lovers . |
| 5 | The objectors also say if that takes from now to Christmas , then so be it . |
| 6 | The pleasure of the text stems at least in part from collective utopias , social wish fulfillment and social aspirations , and these are not simply the sublimated expression of more basic sexual desires . |
| 7 | The research in this initiative derives from the belief that for one reason or another , Britain 's economic decline stems at least in part from insufficient investment in innovation . |
| 8 | Another possibility is that as the aggregate demand curve rises from AD to AD 1 the expected level of prices rises to P 2 , and the relevant short-run supply curve is the line labelled SS 1 . |
| 9 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 10 | I assume therefore , that Monica Baly 's own definition of a profession rests at least in part on independence and self-sufficiency . |
| 11 | It 's only where it changes from under to over , or over to under , that it 's caught into the background fabric . |
| 12 | First , the circumstance that criminal law exhibits some particularly interesting judicial techniques of lawmaking which must be relevant in any account of judicial process which purports at least in part to be descriptive , rather than purely normative . |
| 13 | They belong to a point ( if three-and-a-half books can be called a point , for it lasts from half-way through Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy ) of great tension in the narrative . |
| 14 | I think I think it gets dark earlier than it does up here for example |
| 15 | Let's say the water comes in here at sort of ten gallons a minute . |
| 16 | There is the one where a madcap home supporter gingerly urinates from above on opposition fans who are innocently drinking tea in what they take to be a gentle drizzle . |
| 17 | Correspondingly , the authority by which research expertise is acknowledged is that of the academic peer group , the relevant epistemic community ; in contrast , teaching authority comes at least in part from the students . |