Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses .
2 Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind .
3 Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks !
4 Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation .
5 Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation .
6 Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’
7 But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) .
8 The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption .
9 It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones .
10 Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth .
11 In places , it defies understanding to this day .
12 Jose-Maria Olazabal , one of five players who finished equal 72nd in a field of 78 at New Orleans , has jumped into second place .
13 Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our
14 It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world .
15 The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems .
16 An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software .
17 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement .
18 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inquiries the ’ 199 ? ’ hotline has received from small businesses in Essex .
19 It 's but one of several the NME has received from Nazi filth rushing to defend Morrissey and claim him as their own .
20 Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings .
21 It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way .
22 ‘ The number of people becoming unemployed has eased over recent months and more people are leaving unemployment and getting back to work , ’ she said .
23 The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement .
24 Since then , however , Scotland 's forward play , under the benevolent eye of Richie Dixon , has developed with pleasing continuity , particularly at the lineout , where in both the previous Five Nations games opposition machinations have been torn asunder rather like the post-war devastation in the Orson Welles screen classic .
25 Tourism has developed with considerable speed into one of the major industries of the modern world , and much of its current shape and nature is the result of British innovation during the past 150 years .
26 They stressed the principle of continuity lying behind the order in the universe which has developed through second causes ; and they were sympathetic to Darwin .
27 This resort has developed on either side of an old fishing town , along two stretches of gently shelving beach .
28 To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia .
29 It will be a vision of success from which everyone profits , a vision which the Profitboss has developed over many years , a vision in which he passionately believes and is able to communicate with enthusiasm to his team and every other employee in the organization .
30 The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil .
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