Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 2 | The God who is hidden to sight and beyond human understanding is also the God made manifest in our earthly environment . |
| 3 | Ball winners are easier to come across all you need is someone pretty fit , willing to tackle and with reasonable distribution skills : I ca n't name a likely or desirable replacement though . |
| 4 | Falcon 3 from Spectrum Holobyte is still the best around for serious sim pilots , Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe from Lucasfilms , and Aces of the Pacific from Dynamix show how good ‘ historic ’ flight sims can be — against this formidable opposition Birds of Prey does not come up to scratch and in open combat would soon become the hunted , rather than the hunter … |
| 5 | Oh mother used to go and from different farms you know . |
| 6 | One is its complexity , both for the authorities to administer and for ordinary people to understand . |
| 7 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |
| 8 | Those who read highbrow papers found their papers no more useful for helping them decide how to vote or for revealing politicians ' personalities , and only a little more useful for explaining political issues . |
| 9 | Such a material we term a composite , taking the word in its most general sense as being equivalent to multiphase or to heterogeneous . |
| 10 | The thermodynamic and psychological arrows of time would not reverse when the universe begins to recontract or inside black holes . |
| 11 | The effect of high interest rates and a ‘ petro-pound ’ was to strengthen sterling ; the consequences were for exports to sag and for inflationary pressure to increase rather than diminish . |
| 12 | Section 110(2) provides an aid to the interpretation of the phrase ‘ best practicable means ’ requiring that the court shall have regard to cost and to local conditions and circumstances . |
| 13 | Our report continued : ’ We recommend that the Government introduce legislation to permit nurses with appropriate training limited powers to prescribe and in defined circumstances to modify dosage . ’ |
| 14 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 15 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 16 | However , such boards are difficult to turn and in large waves can nosedive , so for a more manoeuvrable design the rocker line would be made more curved . |
| 17 | Conspiracy remains a crime as well as a tort , but the scope of the crime has been curtailed by statute so that , broadly speaking , the only conspiracies which are now indictable are those to commit a substantive criminal offence , to defraud or to corrupt public morals or outrage public decency . |
| 18 | If you are interested , as I am , in the symbolic representation of relationships then you must pay close attention both to contrast and to small details . |
| 19 | On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research . |
| 20 | Two considerations , however , have persuaded me to leave Egypt on the periphery of my enquiry : ( 1 ) Egypt had interested the Greeks since Homer as a country difficult to approach and with puzzling customs . |
| 21 | His reference to the respondents having no alternative but to continue to pay and to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton suggests that he was referring to payments made to avoid unpleasant consequences other than a simple action of payment . |
| 22 | True to form , the Valvestate S80 is more than happy to oblige and at low volume the Boost channel switched to OD2 handles everything thrown at it . |
| 23 | Unless users are involved in helping to define what it means to work in an empowering way , in the training which enables this to happen and in other ways in the planning , delivery and evaluation of services , it will be another case of users being ‘ done to ’ by professionals . |
| 24 | A government department may place emphasis on careful administration and attention to detail , to research and to political manoeuvring . |
| 25 | The European Court of Human rights held that extraditing a person to a State ‘ where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned , … faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the requesting country ’ engages the responsibility of the sending State . |
| 26 | The story of this episode in the industrial life of the country , of its police and courts , and of the many side issues involved , is far too complicated and lengthy for fuller treatment in an essay of this kind , but it is a story nevertheless of immense importance to the tradition of the freedom to protest and of other freedoms . |
| 27 | This does not only vary from make to make but between individual machines of the same make . |