Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence is provided by a number of low scarps which wind for considerable distances across the Mercurian surface . |
| 2 | He was so small that Sir Dermot 's old suits had to go through considerable abbreviations and pinchings-in before they fitted him . |
| 3 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 4 | This was included after considerable discussion and strong recommendations being put forward by the US Register of Copyright , which referred to ‘ the enormous potential importance of showing , rather than distributing , copies as a means of disseminating an author 's work ’ . |
| 5 | Mattie Barkess said : ‘ He did act with considerable sympathy towards his victim . ’ |
| 6 | From beside me — in the High Street at Thornbury , Avon , last week — the Prime Minister , on his soapbox , was being heckled with considerable passion by a young man carrying a banner marked : ‘ Castle School NUT ’ . |
| 7 | The Deaf Broadcasting Council ( DBC ) , a standing committee , which since 1980 has with considerable success campaigned for a better service for hearing-impaired people from the broadcasting media . |
| 8 | Advice from experts should therefore be approached with considerable caution , since although well intended , it is often the interpretation of their own technique not of that suitable to someone less experienced . |
| 9 | ‘ The girls responded with considerable enthusiasm and undoubtedly gained a great deal from the experience . |
| 10 | This so-called ‘ full extent normal rule ’ has come under considerable criticism from the Court of Appeal downwards . |
| 11 | This so-called ‘ full extent normal rule ’ has come under considerable criticism from the Court of Appeal downwards . |
| 12 | This so-called ‘ full extent normal rule ’ has come under considerable criticism from the Court of Appeal downwards . |
| 13 | Membership has fallen by more than 3 million or nearly 25 percent , and traditional systems of labour organization and industrial relations have come under considerable pressure . |
| 14 | A former Justice Minister who had been elected Speaker only the previous January [ see p. 36943 ] , Ninn-Hansen had come under considerable criticism for a directive which he had issued in 1988 as Justice Minister to immigration authorities to give low priority to reuniting the families of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Denmark . |
| 15 | In summary , we have identified two ORFs which encode RNA polymerase subunits with considerable similarity to their cellular counterparts . |
| 16 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 17 | Those sections , dealing in turn with the origins of life and man , the exploration of our Solar System , medical research , and finally sundry technologies , have — except for this last section — been organised with considerable coherence . |
| 18 | The FDR , and more particularly the DFDR , have enabled the accident investigator to establish in considerable detail exactly what happened in the period leading up to an accident . |
| 19 | Yet caffeine is still the major constituent of many so-called health drinks and is added in considerable quantities to Coca-Cola . |
| 20 | ‘ There is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface ’ |
| 21 | As pollution in India is set to rise with the growing pace of industrialisation and the increasing ownership of motor cars there is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface and a need for continuous restoration . |
| 22 | Alternatively , if the size and density of settlements were uniform throughout the country , then in some areas the dead were being carried over considerable distances for burial . |
| 23 | The project build on considerable experience of applied GIS : the School of Geography at the University of Leeds has been at the forefront of international developments in applied geographical modelling and through GMAP ( Geographical Modelling and Planning ) Ltd. is now applying its unique state of the art approach in many varied business and planning environments . |
| 24 | In the second phase they tend to be more regional , although they are still dispersed over considerable distances , up to 200 km apart . |
| 25 | The use of the leap-frog appeal has been surrounded by considerable caution and the very stringent conditions to be met before such an appeal can be taken has meant that there have been very few such appeals . |
| 26 | The ballot has been surrounded by considerable controversy . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , no effective gall bladder plug has been developed despite considerable research in this field . |
| 28 | The increase in competition allows for considerable improvements in the effective use of inputs , and reductions in the anti-competitive practices of companies . |
| 29 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 30 | The script provides natural examples of the language in use and was written after considerable research into video teaching methods . |