Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact .
2 The dot location task , which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected .
3 Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity .
4 Thus an education department may be organised on an area basis so that the centre plays only a co-ordinating role .
5 Mike Roberts and colleagues at the CEGB 's research laboratories now think that air pollution plays only a minor role after all ( Forestry , vol 62 , pp 179-222 ) .
6 The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science .
7 Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position .
8 And Jung 's phrase ‘ something in us ’ implies that the wish constitutes only a small element in the psyche — one that is not difficult for a sensible , mature person to reject , once she/he has recognised how unrealistic it is .
9 The shoulder and elbow joints are built around precision variable resistors and as each joint swivels so the variable resistor turns .
10 Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate .
11 A computer chip checks voltage levels within the battery , and slows down the recharging process if this increases too rapidly , thereby , according to Innovations , avoiding the danger of explosive gases building up .
12 It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk .
13 US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses .
14 It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain .
15 So Summerchild locks up his office and goes down the narrow staircase .
16 thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb
17 But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive .
18 So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all .
19 But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East .
20 With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business .
21 Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB .
22 In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) .
23 This represents only a small proportion of the structure .
24 They are bogging down ; and even if some formula is reached which both sides can sign , Joshua represents only a small minority of Africans .
25 The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate .
26 But this sum — under 4% of the Block — represents only a small fraction of spending from the Block on education in Scotland .
27 All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs .
28 It represents only a small percentage of total production .
29 Even excluding these the following represents only a small sample .
30 It may be observed that the linear regression line in Fig. 1 represents only the general tendency of the association between women 's age at first marriage and at first birth .
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