Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that the organizational changes discussed by Williamson influence the distribution of power both within and between firms , and one can not presume that power is used to produce efficient outcomes . |
| 2 | They therefore influence the supply of money indirectly by controlling interest rates and hence the demand for money . |
| 3 | Dutch haulage companies favour the introduction of tolls rather than rush-hour levies . |
| 4 | Not suprisingly , people in the north-east of the country , where the work ethic and the climate push the pace of life ever upward , reside permanently in the fast lane . |
| 5 | Even if you do n't carry the gene , one of our children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren might meet someone who did and repeat the tragedy of Johnnie all over again . |
| 6 | Their successes highlight the failure of vision elsewhere . |
| 7 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |
| 8 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 9 | But it was a long step from this to Meade 's contention that the government could by its adjustment of demand raise the level of employment permanently . |
| 10 | Raise the height of cut accordingly . |
| 11 | The happiness we are all seeking is n't granted by politicians , although I accept they can create circumstances that make the achievement of happiness very difficult . |
| 12 | A couple of other points that make the purchase of Gazza highly unlikely . |
| 13 | A shadow may lie across a surface , giving a sharp change of brightness ; such exceptions to the rules make the interpretation of images more difficult . ) |
| 14 | The firms must somehow define the set of feasible agreements , reach a point within it , preserve stability of the agreement , and make the threat of punishment as effective and credible as possible . |
| 15 | The reason for their use is that they make the task of interpretation easier for the reader . |
| 16 | For example , insisting on conditions that would in theory make the employment of women more likely often has the opposite effect . |
| 17 | The way we must do this is by working together to get our costs down and ensuring we provide the quality of service out customers need at the right price . |
| 18 | Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello . |
| 19 | Offers of stalls from outer areas would of course be very welcome but we realise the difficulty of commuting/carrying etc . |
| 20 | Offers of stalls from outer areas would of course be very welcome but we realise the difficulty of commuting/carrying etc . |
| 21 | They want the transformation of society now ! ’ |
| 22 | But , no , we well I do n't suppose they want the piece of plastic back . |
| 23 | An old adage , possibly even a cliché , but not a bad philosophy if you want the sort of holiday where you can get involved , meet local people , be an individual rather than part of a package . |
| 24 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 25 | ‘ However , rural schools provide a kind of heterogeneity rarely found in urban or suburban settings — heterogeneity of social class . |
| 26 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 27 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 28 | I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back . |
| 29 | If you decide you want a couple of days off to take your grandson shopping |
| 30 | We want a sea of noise tomorrow , ’ said Francis . |