Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once subclasses or subfacets have been identified and the foci grouped into these , then foci can be arranged or ordered within the facet or subfacets , as appropriate . |
| 2 | Construction delays , cost over-runs , technological change , increased interest rates , market factors such as depressed product prices may all lead to cost over-runs or failure to achieve the projected return on the project . |
| 3 | ‘ an act not warranted by law or an omission to discharge a legal duty , which act or omission obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all His Majesty 's subjects . |
| 4 | This chapter deals with the approach of the criminal law to behaviour which causes or risks causing death . |
| 5 | In this way , researchers can never explain why it is that wants or preferences manifested by individuals in social and political action are originally formed . |
| 6 | In the contrast between the austerity of his life and the emotional warmth of his friendships , between the rigour of his Prayers and the mildness of his disposition , between the eremitical strain in his own piety and his acceptance of the increasing wealth of ornament in his cathedral church , this most uncompromising of men stands where extremes meet , and embraces both . |
| 7 | The extract starts where Gilly has just received a postcard from her mother . |
| 8 | Albin adds that DMSO seems to improve blood flow and levels of oxygen around the brain and could be used to restrict the effects of certain kinds of stroke . |
| 9 | The note adds that directors participate in a long-term , performance related incentive plan based on growth in earnings per share above a minimum level over a four-year period . |
| 10 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 11 | The latter accepts it : law as integrity supposes that people have legal right — rights that follow from past decisions of political institutions and therefore license coercion — that go beyond the explicit extension of political practices conceived as conventions . |
| 12 | One of the clearest examples of kin selection occurs in a bacterial plasmid ( Maynard Smith 1978 ) ; despite misunderstandings of the phrase ‘ selfish gene ’ , no one supposes that plasmids think . |
| 13 | ( The hypothesis supposes that voters have a short memory : they expect continuity only from the incumbent . ) |
| 14 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 15 | There was something about the wood fragments that Jordan knew and was not saying . |
| 16 | More recent work ( Bankowski and Mungham 1976 ; Illich 1977 ; Medcalf 1978 ; Scheingold 1974 ) emphasises that lawyers control not merely , or even at all , by over-the-desk domination of clients , but more subtly . |
| 17 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 18 | Thirdly , he emphasises that fractals imply an unconventional philosophy of geometry . |
| 19 | A " temporary services business " , which specifies that persons working for it are under its " direction , supervision and control " , is not an " employment business " in the terms of the Employment Agencies Act and is not subject to the regulations governing the operation of such businesses which the Act lays down . |
| 20 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 21 | When Springhall writes that adolescents gave their allegiance to ‘ society ’ , this is at best a half-truth . |
| 22 | The point is : virtually everyone in sport , to some extent , accepts that blacks have a natural ability at sport which functions at both physical and intellectual levels . |
| 23 | Everyone accepts that journals have a house style about how to spell , and how to write abbreviations , but some articles come back with major changes . |
| 24 | If one accepts that Quinton offers a more comprehensive formulation of Conservatism than Eccleshall , then Thatcherism 's credentials must be checked again . |
| 25 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 26 | Lawrence accepts that Ford entered car diesel design later than it might have liked compared with some of the opposition , notably Peugeot-Citroen ( PSA ) , which enjoyed a head start from the 1930s . |
| 27 | BR accepts that measures imposed in mid-1988 to ease staff retention problems have failed . |
| 28 | His dealings with the chief sources of Opera North 's subsidy , the Arts Council and Leeds City Council , are happy enough , and he has successfully scotched a dismal plan to merge with Scottish Opera , but he worries that Leeds lacks a ‘ coherent cultural policy ’ of the sort that Birmingham and Glasgow have committed themselves to . |
| 29 | Commenting on the poor quality of bibliographies in published papers , Kochen concludes that failures to cite are due to : |
| 30 | He concludes that theses occupy a distinctive but peripheral position in the information transfer chain . |