Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 2 | The God who is hidden to sight and beyond human understanding is also the God made manifest in our earthly environment . |
| 3 | Ball winners are easier to come across all you need is someone pretty fit , willing to tackle and with reasonable distribution skills : I ca n't name a likely or desirable replacement though . |
| 4 | Falcon 3 from Spectrum Holobyte is still the best around for serious sim pilots , Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe from Lucasfilms , and Aces of the Pacific from Dynamix show how good ‘ historic ’ flight sims can be — against this formidable opposition Birds of Prey does not come up to scratch and in open combat would soon become the hunted , rather than the hunter … |
| 5 | Oh mother used to go and from different farms you know . |
| 6 | One is its complexity , both for the authorities to administer and for ordinary people to understand . |
| 7 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |
| 8 | Those who read highbrow papers found their papers no more useful for helping them decide how to vote or for revealing politicians ' personalities , and only a little more useful for explaining political issues . |
| 9 | The thermodynamic and psychological arrows of time would not reverse when the universe begins to recontract or inside black holes . |
| 10 | The effect of high interest rates and a ‘ petro-pound ’ was to strengthen sterling ; the consequences were for exports to sag and for inflationary pressure to increase rather than diminish . |
| 11 | Section 110(2) provides an aid to the interpretation of the phrase ‘ best practicable means ’ requiring that the court shall have regard to cost and to local conditions and circumstances . |
| 12 | Our report continued : ’ We recommend that the Government introduce legislation to permit nurses with appropriate training limited powers to prescribe and in defined circumstances to modify dosage . ’ |
| 13 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 14 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 15 | However , such boards are difficult to turn and in large waves can nosedive , so for a more manoeuvrable design the rocker line would be made more curved . |
| 16 | If you are interested , as I am , in the symbolic representation of relationships then you must pay close attention both to contrast and to small details . |
| 17 | On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research . |
| 18 | Two considerations , however , have persuaded me to leave Egypt on the periphery of my enquiry : ( 1 ) Egypt had interested the Greeks since Homer as a country difficult to approach and with puzzling customs . |
| 19 | True to form , the Valvestate S80 is more than happy to oblige and at low volume the Boost channel switched to OD2 handles everything thrown at it . |
| 20 | Unless users are involved in helping to define what it means to work in an empowering way , in the training which enables this to happen and in other ways in the planning , delivery and evaluation of services , it will be another case of users being ‘ done to ’ by professionals . |
| 21 | A government department may place emphasis on careful administration and attention to detail , to research and to political manoeuvring . |
| 22 | The story of this episode in the industrial life of the country , of its police and courts , and of the many side issues involved , is far too complicated and lengthy for fuller treatment in an essay of this kind , but it is a story nevertheless of immense importance to the tradition of the freedom to protest and of other freedoms . |
| 23 | This does not only vary from make to make but between individual machines of the same make . |