Example sentences of "moves [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make three assumptions : ( a ) the real polymer chains move in a mean field called the cage , and in the cage field each chain is confined in a tube-like region , the central line of which is defined as the primitive chain ; ( b ) the equilibrium conformation of the primitive chain is a random walk with step length a and arc length L ; ( c ) the primitive chain , as a whole , moves as a Brownian particle along itself , with curvilinear diffusion constant D. |
| 2 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 3 | It 's a great melodic motif that moves through a I-VI-II-V progression — a serious R&B ballad . |
| 4 | If the motor moves through a given angle as a result of the load torque then the load itself moves l/N of the angle . |
| 5 | Confirmation of a tour to South Africa and moves towards a Southern Hemisphere Five Nations — it 's all happening Down Under , as GREG CAMPBELL discovered . |
| 6 | If Mr Yeltsin tries to play by the rules as he moves towards a new constitutional order , he will fail , because parliament can make up the rules as it goes along . |
| 7 | Mr Fallon said streamlining services and ‘ getting rid of a few managers ’ would benefit patients but moves towards a full merger would not win his support . |
| 8 | I have discussed the impact that moves towards a Single Currency may have , especially if the Maastricht Treaty were to come into force . |
| 9 | On July 31 the Commission issued an " essentially positive " opinion ( or recommendation to EC governments ) on Austria 's application , although it said that the government needed to give assurances that its neutrality policy would not obstruct EC moves towards a common foreign and security policy . |
| 10 | In effect , the building 's frequency is lowered or ‘ detuned ’ below the earthquake 's , and the structure moves like a rigid body above the isolators instead of flexing . |
| 11 | Assume that a loop lying in the x , y plane ( dimensions shown in Fig. 4.14 ) moves with a uniform velocity v in the direction of the positive y axis . |
| 12 | I hope however , that as SA moves into a new era , these problems will be analysed and taken into consideration when restructuring especially because the SA National Director of Health Services , Dr Coen Slabbert , also acknowledged fragmentation as a major obstacle to PHC implementation . |
| 13 | Where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house , exemption or relief from capital gains tax is given even though the owner did not actually live in the house in the twelve months immediately preceding its disposal . |
| 14 | ‘ To meet the case where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house but can not at once find a buyer for his old house , the 1965 Finance Act provides for exemption or relief from capital gains tax even though the owner did not actually live in the house for a period of up to 12 months immediately preceding the date of sale . |
| 15 | As the vehicle moves into a new zone the information provided by the pager changes accordingly . |
| 16 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 17 | A YOUNG divorcee faces a date with murder when she moves into a high-rise flat from which a lookalike blonde fell to her death . |
| 18 | If a carer moves into a rented house to care for someone the right to succeed to the tenancy on the death of the tenant is lost ( Schedule 6 para 3 ) unless the care has lasted at least 5 years ( formerly 6 months was the qualifying period ) . |
| 19 | They stated : ‘ When manifesting in the physical world it brings with it the forces of attraction and repulsion and moves in a curved path or spiral . ’ |
| 20 | But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards . |
| 21 | Lower : A group moves in a U-shaped formation in the direction of a smaller number of individuals , napping the herded fish . |
| 22 | For each Fanatic in turn roll a scatter dice to determine which direction it moves in — the Goblin is now so utterly disorientated that he moves in a random direction . |
| 23 | But their Trojan horse' threat has encouraged pre-emptive national policy moves in a commercial direction . |
| 24 | Playing an investment banker , something which perhaps requires greater suspension of disbelief than the film 's vision of the spirit world , Swayze gets to make all his crowd-pleasing moves in a novel setting . |
| 25 | The fuel is controlled by a small lever to the left of the collective which moves in a detented gate . |
| 26 | This stance is best suited to upwards travel and the bird moves in a tight spiral round the tree so that no part of the bark is left unscanned . |
| 27 | The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation . |
| 28 | The reader should note his progress within the whole twelve books and in doing so will see how he moves from a heroic , masterful force and a leader of millions to a spy alone in the Garden of Eden , watching two lovers like a common peeping Tom . |
| 29 | Exactly 3.7 nanoseconds after play commences , I 'm usually hurling abuse at the game , the C64 , my fellow ZZAP ! reviewers and anything that moves within a ten-yard radius . |
| 30 | Stage migration occurs when a peasant moves to a provincial town for some time and then on to the city . |