Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 2 | Since the true wind is so strong , the apparent wind plays little part . |
| 3 | Our author is aware of these objections but , even though Christ plays little part in his religious vision , he does find a contemplative exemplar in the gospels in the story of Martha and Mary . |
| 4 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 5 | True to Reid 's claim that the debate jumped to solutions , we now find that a major response to economic decline and youth unemployment has been the Youth Training Scheme organised through the Manpower Services Commission of the Department of Employment , in which the school sector plays little part . |
| 6 | Now it 's where the family sit each evening cosy on a rug in the dim smoky light ; like the black house dwellers in the Western Isles preferring the warmth of the hearth to the luxury of space . |
| 7 | Instead of rapidly expanding the ranks of the Party , it threatened , in their view , to reduce them ; instead of bridging the gap between a party dominated by members of the intelligentsia and the working masses , it threatened to institutionalize that gap . |
| 8 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 9 | Well , those beautiful ones , those beautiful heads and things he did after he met that girl called Marie-Thérèse Walter I always think those are so beautiful . |
| 10 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
| 11 | Not even in Paradise Street had Rose met that phenomenon . |
| 12 | You met that man last night , Stephen . |
| 13 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 14 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
| 15 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 16 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 17 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 18 | In his gigantic sum over histories there is a vast amount of interference between the contributions of neighbouring paths which have a tendency to cancel each other out . |
| 19 | Instead it has to be made up of a band of waves of different wavelengths , cunningly chosen to cancel each other out outside the region of width unc and to reinforce each other inside it . |
| 20 | This means that their spins are guaranteed to cancel each other out to give a total spin of zero . |
| 21 | Thus , if all the infinities in supergravity turn out to cancel each other out , we could have a theory that not only filly unifies all the matter particles and interactions , but that is complete in the sense that it does not have any undetermined renormalization parameters . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |