Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 2 | As with transcendence and immanence , this may at first sight appear to represent a flat contradiction in terms . |
| 3 | New forms of conventional weapons stemming from advances in chip-based micro-electronics and in software engineering at first sight appear to make the goal of a less nuclear-dependent posture for the defence of Western Europe strategically feasible and economically affordable . |
| 4 | With this in mind , in the following chapter , I begin my account of modern social anthropology by showing what illumination this approach brings to beliefs which at first sight appear to require a great deal of explanation . |
| 5 | The genetic view might at first sight appear to constitute a supremely historical way of thinking about literature , as the literary text was explained in terms of its causes and its origins . |
| 6 | Children just beginning on their first language have to solve the problem of how forms map on to meanings . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 8 | The operation by fund managers was thought to be purely tactical , to avoid the risk of a sharp fall in the currency followed by an equally sharp rise should the next government decide to apply the remedy of higher interest rates . |
| 9 | [ P. Seaver , The Puritan Lectureships , 1970 ; I. Calder , ‘ A Seventeenth Century Attempt to Purify the Anglican Church ’ , American Historical Review , vol. lii , 1947–8 ; P. Christianson , Reformers and Babylon , 1978 ; C. Webster , Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning , 1970 ; T. Edwards , Antapologia , 1644 . ] |