Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main purpose of the research project is to illustrate and examine the extent to which national laws either converge or diverge on selected major issues covered by the law of the sea convention . |
| 2 | Relationships with that partner may be judged successful or otherwise according to the ways in which they duplicate , replace or compensate for parental relationships . |
| 3 | Whether you prefer the commonsense approach of the largest , Nature et Progres , group ( a bit like our Soil Association ) or the literal looniness of Rudolf Steiner 's Biodynamic disciples , who only prune and pick during certain lunar and stellar cycles and seem to persuade their slugs to die , is up to you . |
| 4 | Learning through play gives enjoyable opportunities for the child with defective vision to handle , explore and build with colourful and attractive three-dimensional material alongside fully sighted children and in interactive play with them . |
| 5 | That is , while it may prove difficult or impossible to devise the appropriate experiment to get at young children 's appreciation of logical necessity , they may reveal that they have a measure of understanding of logical necessity in what they say and do in everyday contexts . |
| 6 | We will be watching this one grow and grow in future issues . |
| 7 | Even when there are specialist historians , producing approximations to truth which their colleagues test and scrutinize to professional standards , people make home brews from their own lives and knowledge and offer them to their successors . |
| 8 | In practice , syntactic and semantic considerations often override or interact with communicative considerations to produce structures that do not follow the arrangement of the source text . |
| 9 | To what extent , if at all , do the Lord Chancellor and the Prime Minister take into account the political allegiance of those whom they appoint or promote to judicial office ? |
| 10 | To help the patient prevent or cope with subsequent crises without resorting to self-poisoning . |
| 11 | For much of their lives they act and behave as normal people . |
| 12 | The Ashmolean Museum , which includes the Heberden Coin Room , offers a particularly important resource for both research and teaching in Classical Archaeology . |
| 13 | Even more frequently there are people who claim to be introverted , ( in other words they think and feel as an introvert ) but who nonetheless over-compensate and behave in extraverted ways . |
| 14 | Certainly , the illness would have given me plenty of opportunities to make strings of fireworks fizzle and explode in bright , whirling wheels of sulphurous pain in and behind Miller 's word-jellied eyeballs . |
| 15 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 16 | Most people know that they hawk and feed on other flies . |
| 17 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 18 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 19 | To the extent that we isolate and concentrate on phonic rules we seem to encourage only awareness of the surface features of written language . |
| 20 | Members of a trade regularly brought together in workplace or community could acknowledge regular leaders and develop and insist on customary work practices without embedding any of this in formal regulations and procedures . |
| 21 | The Oxford English Dictionary gives develop and develope as alternative spellings . |
| 22 | As time passes and the prospects of development concentrate and mature in particular places , the gap which in many cases already exists between the amount of the claim and the amount of the development charge will grow wider . |
| 23 | As wide a number of technical people as possible will be invited to state their views , so that by early August further adjustments can be made to eliminate those disadvantages that remain and to build in other desirable features that may be considered worthwhile . |
| 24 | They stand or sit on thin irregular lines painted across the black in a white which has somewhat faded . |
| 25 | I have to simulate perception of situations not present to my senses ( that is , imagine them ) in order to discover how I would respond , and incipiently simulate other persons ( that is , empathize them ) in order to discover how they respond ; I have to explore how things look and feel from different viewpoints . |
| 26 | Franchises look and operate like ordinary shops , as far as the customer is concerned . |
| 27 | During the early stages of mastery over language , children interpret and act upon verbal messages despite their ignorance of the meaning of many of the units and structures of the language used . |
| 28 | People speak , listen , read and write in different social situations for different purposes … |
| 29 | By so doing we , who read and talk about human society , gain a new depth of understanding of ourselves and our place . |
| 30 | Body size , mating systems , nomadism , and dietary composition as well as other minor features all vary and correlate with numerous details of display and behaviour . |