Example sentences of "[verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The pain of the body and the greatness of the soul are equally balanced throughout the composition of the figure and seem to cancel each other out . |
| 32 | Random diversification allows the reduction of non-market risk because the error terms from the market model 's estimation of each security will tend to cancel each other out and sum to zero because they are uncorrelated . |
| 33 | Market makers can aim to run only modest positions in any group of similar stocks or they can run large but offsetting positions , i.e. being long on certain stocks and short on others such that capital gains and losses can be expected to cancel each other out . |
| 34 | In a fast moving first half the teams appeared to cancel each other out in mid-field and as a result neither keeper was called into action . |
| 35 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 36 | In theory , you have to ensure that you have at least two trees in flower at the same time so that they can pollinate each other , otherwise you may get no fruit at all . |
| 37 | A few apple , pear and plum varieties are cross-sterile and can not pollinate each other , while some apples and pears are biennial bearers and thus will not supply pollen each year . |
| 38 | Although the line can be wrapped overarm onto the handle easily , there is always the risk of generating that ‘ twist ’ . |
| 39 | Rather than start from a symbol and find what sentences can be generated from it , one can begin with a sentence and a grammar , and find a way of generating that sentence . |
| 40 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 41 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Oh , Fergus , ’ said Dierdriu softly , ‘ you will have to curb that rebellious arrogance if ever you are truly to serve Ireland . ’ |
| 43 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 44 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 45 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 46 | Ultimately , however , Egyptian Christianity 's most lasting effect was less its simple perpetuation of Nazarean thought than its development of an administrative system for housing and transmitting that thought . |
| 47 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 48 | Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward . |
| 49 | Even Reagan 's critics concede that welfare reform was a significant achievement , but more than that it was an important turning point in the education of a chief executive . |
| 50 | I note that the C E C is opposing this , but I feel that maybe they 've missed the points and the branch should actually take some responsibility for this because the wording could be better , we concede that point . |
| 51 | ‘ Well , you might not have , my dear , ’ he added unfuriatingly , and apparently impervious to the effect he was having , ‘ though I by no means concede that point . |
| 52 | We 've prefaced that and the , the heading , I should have a copy , what ? |
| 53 | He also admitted that on the balance of their performances against Brazil , England and Argentina this autumn , his side clearly lacked that extra something . |
| 54 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 55 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 56 | Now such respected independent institutions as the Fraser of Allander Institute are forecasting that recovery will not arrive until the second half of the year . |
| 57 | Icke , whose only previous North-East connection was in forecasting that Teesside later amended to Tayside would be under water by Christmas , has been signed as a goalie by Jewson Wessex League club Ryde Sports . |
| 58 | It just plays that horrible music . |
| 59 | Yeah but can we plays that tape so that everybody 's can hear ? |
| 60 | I must stress that only aluminium cans are acceptable and , if possible , they should be crushed as they take up less room . |