Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such a concentration upon ‘ women as carers ’ neglects the very important contribution of male carers ( Arber and Gilbert 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Similarly , " this personage " , a mock dignified label for Pemberton himself perhaps fits the rather forbidding image he presents to the child , as well as reflecting sadly on Pemberton 's own lack of dignity in the situation in which he finds himself . |
| 3 | Longer-term trading considerations may be far from the Chancellor 's mind as he tackles the more urgent problems of balancing the books by squeezing maximum contributions from energy supply , but a quick tax fix is no substitute for a well-defined investment strategy to ensure the best balance is struck between available supply and demand . |
| 4 | In my view the importance of the pilot stage is that it confronts the perhaps over-sophisticated schedule with down-to-earth respondents . |
| 5 | And that involves the enormously difficult task of allocating resources which are limited among competing claims . |
| 6 | However , the communist revolution which involves the most radical change in property rights also involves ‘ the most radical rupture with traditional ideas ’ . |
| 7 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 8 | The 8-byte instruction buffer in the CPU decomposes the highly variable instruction format into its basic components and constantly fetches ahead to reduce delays in obtaining the instruction components . |
| 9 | No definition is completely satisfactory , but any attempt at a definition must recognise that the pitch of the voice plays the most important part . |
| 10 | However , under the Community 's legislative procedures , it is the Commission which plays the most important role . |
| 11 | Kim Hartman , the actress who plays the truly Aryan Helga in the BBC comedy series 'Allo ‘ Allo , lives in a small Cotswold village and drives a Polo Boulevard , a special edition of VW 's small car , which is equipped with a 1.3-litre engine . |
| 12 | Béroff plays the more spectacular pieces ( such as the ‘ Regard de l'espirit de joie ’ ) with rhythmic energy and sheer bravura which few others have even approached . |
| 13 | No modern anthropologist doubts the uncomfortably revolutionary conclusion that all aspects of society form a whole and that none is independent of the moment of history characterized by this transitory , all-embracing system . |
| 14 | These protests may have been ignored had it not been for the enthusiasm of Hans-Dietrich Genscher for EMU : ‘ the creation of a single European monetary zone , with a European central bank , constitutes the economically indispensable centrepiece of a European single market ’ . |
| 15 | The reason for this constitutes the most critical part of the model . |
| 16 | There is no consensus view as to what constitutes the most desirable traits but qualities such as intelligence , initiative , self-confidence , enthusiasm are regularly featured in studies . |
| 17 | Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) . |
| 18 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 19 | The psychoanalytic historical investigations of Gilman ( 1985 , 1987 ) and Bhabha ( 1983 , 1986 ) provide contrasting routes into this terrain , while the theoretical historical and educational work of Philip Cohen , already referred to constitutes the most significant intervention around antiracist education informed by both psychoanalytic and sociological understanding . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is my contention that this approach is most marked in the British case and that it constitutes the most significant aspect of British political culture . |
| 21 | The simple truth is that in public buildings , in the streets ( and even in the House of Commons ) , there just are n't enough women 's loos to go around and this begs the equally simple question : why ? |
| 22 | The normal definition , that tasks will be executed at Community level only if they can not be satisfactorily dealt with at national level , begs the most important questions which can ever be asked in a democratic system : who decides ? how ? what for ? |
| 23 | Since do evokes the very taking place in time of the infinitive 's event , it is obvious that it can not be conceived as arising prior to the latter , i.e. as constituting a before-position with respect to this event . |
| 24 | Indeed , some of the colleges have felt that the Council is dominated by the polytechnics and , as a result , neither wholly understands the rather different outlook of the colleges and institutes nor entirely sympathizes with their aspirations . |
| 25 | YEGOR GAIDAR , the architect of Russia 's economic reforms , thinks the most interesting phenomenon in Russian politics is the collapse of the centre . |
| 26 | Jiri Dienstbier , Czechoslovakia 's foreign minister , thinks the purely military element in their security is small . |
| 27 | East Allegheny displays the most glaring disparity as , whilst it contains one quarter of all North Side dwellings , total investment represents around one eighth of all North Side loans made . |
| 28 | Gesualdo , after publishing four books of not particularly individual madrigals in the Rore-Wert tradition ( 1594–6 ) , brought out two more in 1611 in which chromatic alteration simultaneously in several parts produces the most extraordinary effects of dislocation ( often alternating with very commonplace diatonic passages ) . |
| 29 | However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results . |
| 30 | The tawny owl produces the most representative prey assemblage from its habitat , including rare species , but the barn owl preserves the original community equitability more closely by concentrating on the more common species at the expense of missing the rare species . |