Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition the lack of upwelling allows a tongue of the equatorial counter-current ( which normally passes into and flails pointlessly about in the Gulf of Panama ) to head further south , into the region of the northbound Peru current . |
| 2 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 3 | Censorship is an unprofessional act , and anyone who deliberately calls for and takes part in censorship has no place in the profession . |
| 4 | bringing out how Q-analysis both differs from and complements specific examples of more traditional styles of mathematical modelling in human geography . |
| 5 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 6 | Historie can be seen as describing the past as past , and as fragmentarily reconstructed by the detached , scholarly and scientific method of the historian , ; Geschichte as describing a past which in some fashion also impinges upon and involves the present , a past which must be approached via subjective commitment rather than by a purely objective analysis of a more neutral kind . |
| 7 | It both departs from and rejoins traditional and feminist psychologies of homosexuality , which rest on unproblematic notions of homosexual biology , identity , or , more rarely , politics ( Kitzinger 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Humiliated , Kate blows her nose ungracefully and almost apologises for nor knowing what has come over her . |
| 9 | ‘ There is a dishonest appropriation for the purposes of the Theft Act 1968 where by the substitution of a price label showing a lesser price on goods for one showing a greater price , a defendant either by that act alone or by that act in conjunction with another act or other acts ( whether done before or after the substitution of the labels ) adversely interferes with or usurps the right of the owner to ensure that the goods concerned are sold and paid for at that greater price . |
| 10 | However , it can be argued under civil law the delivery of something under a contract which is voidable for fraud is the act by which the accused adversely interferes with or usurps the victim 's rights . |
| 11 | I wish he 'd get his teeth seen to ; do they have special police dentists or do they have to go to the ones everybody else goes to and hope the dentist does n't have some … have some grudge … some grudge against … ? |
| 12 | Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature . |
| 13 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 14 | To illustrate Jakobson 's approach to these texts , let us take his analysis ( with L.G. Jones ) of Shakespeare 's Sonnet cxxix , ‘ Th'Expence of Spirit ’ ( 1970 ) : The analysis considers in turn the following relationships of equivalence and contrast ( which evidently depends on and emphasizes equivalence ) in the poem ( the spelling and punctuation follow the first edition ) : ( 1 ) those which oppose the first seven lines to the last seven ; ( 2 ) those which are constant features of the text as a whole ; ( 3 ) those which oppose strophes I and III to II and IV ; ( 4 ) those which oppose strophes I and IV to ( I and III ( the outer and the inner ) ; ( 5 ) those which oppose strophes I and II to III and IV ; ( 6 ) those which oppose the final couplet to the rest of the poem ; and ( 7 ) those which oppose the middle couplet ( lines 7 and 8 ) to the rest of the poem . |
| 15 | The matter therefore hinges on whether carving directly onto day in the negative is a skill easily acquired . |