Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance , while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up . |
| 2 | In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change . |
| 3 | This astute choice by Mr Tofa , creating a balanced ticket of Muslim and Christian , has all but secured the NRC 's dominance in the east . |
| 4 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 5 | Airtime suppliers are to charge what they like , but competition should mean that call rates fall , especially as the recession has all but capped the once fast growth . |
| 6 | Instead of learning more about how people function in a world whose intellectual demands are growing , the US has all but outlawed the data , encouraged to do so by what it encounters in the national press . |
| 7 | THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order . |
| 8 | The pre-modern relationship which prevailed for centuries has just as enduring an influence . |
| 9 | America has ever since remained a staunch bastion of manualism . |
| 10 | Player ( A ) lives forever and maximizes the discounted sum of period by period payoffs . |
| 11 | Fine roots develop from the nodes and the plant develops rapidly and outgrows the tank . |
| 12 | This gradually changed the atmosphere to the composition that it has today and allowed the development of higher forms of life such as fish , reptiles , mammals , and ultimately the human race . |
| 13 | The wing unstalls immediately and prevents the spin from developing . |
| 14 | So , a person with a higher than normal cholesterol concentration carries a relatively low risk if he/she does not smoke , has low blood pressure , is not overweight , exercises regularly and has no history of heart disease in the family . |
| 15 | He 's got the same mixture as Greene — he writes well and does the human condition , men , women … |
| 16 | Mosfet Q6 avalanches repetitively and absorbs the energy stored in the leakage inductance of the coil . |
| 17 | The average , ‘ good enough ’ mother ( to use the terminology of another analyst , Donald Winnicott ) cleans , feeds , holds firmly and comforts the raging baby . |
| 18 | The patient then turns backwards and lifts the normal leg onto the plinth while the physiotherapist guides the hemiplegic leg as it too is lifted up . |
| 19 | She turns away and lays a gentle finger on Rainbow 's still trembling cheek . |
| 20 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
| 21 | Type in your destination , your leaving point and the time you either want to arrive or depart , and the program goes away and calculates the best route . |
| 22 | When the theme has been decided , she goes away and prepares a design . |
| 23 | The Coel sits a-loft and greets the light , clear and strong his cry . |
| 24 | Tt so that th the er there 's that aspect to it , which I think er complements rather than contradicts the , the ideological pragmatism one . |
| 25 | Providing oral substitutes such as Methadone perpetuates rather than reduces the addictive disease and all its attendant risks . |
| 26 | Chap goes home and finds the missus in bed with one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 27 | Beneath the castle he proposes to open a bay in the woods and build there a cottage that ‘ will give an air of cheerfulness and inhabitancy to the scene which would without it be too sombre , because the castle tho ’ perfectly in character with the solemn dignity of the surrounding woods , increases rather than relieves the apparent solitude ’ . |
| 28 | Unlike B. echinosperma , B. octandra grows quickly and develops a mass of greyish-white fleshy roots . |
| 29 | In the GIS context such issues are becoming increasingly important as GIS use grows rapidly and reaches a wider audience : this concern has created a new sub-discipline of ‘ spatial language ’ research . |
| 30 | You might be wondering why a word mask merely reduces rather than eliminates the word-superiority effect , since it effectively short-circuits the operation of the target word 's detector . |