Example sentences of "moves [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought council demolition moves for 18 months before his fatal confrontation . |
| 2 | Smart moves for tough times . |
| 3 | Thus the eye moves between these contrasts : thick paint and thin , shiny pigment and dull , serpentine runs of paint and straight lines . |
| 4 | Motifs can also be used in a more extended way , to unify a long composition which , like opera , moves through many moods and situations . |
| 5 | As an idea moves through this process , its progress can be charted . |
| 6 | The solid curve in Fig. 8.5 is the GR prediction and fits the changing delay as Venus moves through superior conjunction extremely well . |
| 7 | There is a progression in the poem which moves through three stages parallel to the actual journey the train takes from its , ‘ first powerful plain manifesto ’ , until , ‘ beyond the crest of the world , she reaches night . ’ |
| 8 | The 1530s , therefore , saw some tentative official moves towards religious reform , although they all reflected the tension between the forces for conservatism and those who looked for change . |
| 9 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
| 10 | From a generalized application , the subject moves towards greater differentiation of surrounding objects , and an increasing specificity of desire . |
| 11 | If France moves towards greater participation in NATO , it must come into something new . |
| 12 | A sales tax would prompt border-hopping , tolerable in America but not in tiny Britain , and would fly in the face of EC moves towards greater harmonisation of indirect taxes . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , in a bulletin accompanying the latest update to Current Accounting Law and Practice , its editor , , questioned the ASB 's proposals in its Role of Valuation in Financial Reporting paper which moves towards current values . |
| 14 | Moreover , the closer a company moves towards computer-integrated manufacture ( CIM ) , the less possible will it find it to look at investments in isolation . |
| 15 | 1 984a , 10 ) which : ‘ breaks out of the consensus mould and moves towards neo-marxist interpretations , a certain narrowness of outlook remains ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher 's international stature also rested on the curious chemistry of her relationship with President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union , but the rigour of the Prime Minister consorted somewhat uneasily with the fluid world of perestroika , democratization throughout eastern Europe , German reunification , and moves towards international disarmament . |
| 17 | So , striptease is analysed as a statement that moves towards one thing ( sex and evil ) only to contradict this and move immediately away . |
| 18 | Erm and that that really needs to be carefully assessed as one moves towards some conclusions on where that new settlement ought to be . |
| 19 | One possibility is that they are blind to the spatial properties of the stimuli and that they can distinguish horizontal from vertical only because the two stripe-patterns activate different classes of motion detectors ; that is , detectors of the vertical motion will be stimulated best when a bee approaches or moves past horizontal stripes , whereas the signature of vertical stripes will be a discharge from detectors of horizontal motion . |
| 20 | It is called a squid fishery , but the truth is that anything that moves near these nets is likely to be caught and killed . ’ |
| 21 | His hand moves with efficient speed . |
| 22 | ‘ We are learning that , as a result of how they operate , the game moves with greater continuity . |
| 23 | Then since we assume that the first , parallel coupled , part of the assembly moves with equal strain e in each part , we have the equations The same form of equation but with different constants is found if we use the mechanically equivalent form of the three-element model given in Figure 3.2 ( b ) . |
| 24 | Although heavy in frame , an Akita moves with surprising speed and power , and is difficult to stop if determined in his actions . |
| 25 | It moves with surprising speed . |
| 26 | Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have . |
| 27 | Nobody is pushing Anna , but Christine and Tony do hope that by the time she moves into mainstream education , she will have caught up . |
| 28 | The Spirit marks out Stephen as a special vehicle of God when he refuses to remain restricted to the static categories of the temple and moves into broader pastures ( 6:3,5,10 , 7:55 ) . |
| 29 | The rendering of the ‘ facticity ’ of the social by that of the aesthetic is a crucial , first realist and then naturalist , moment of this modernization process , after which aesthetic modernism moves into full self-referentiality . |
| 30 | Pollution is no longer simply a product of local industry ; it often moves in continental drifts as weather patterns change . |