Example sentences of "[vb base] an [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 2 | As Charles observes : ‘ If you want an insight into why Diana is not just some sort of spoilt toff it is because we had very contrasting lifestyles . |
| 3 | While these four contingent relations between specific response categories and environmental consequences provide an account of how behaviours can be increased or decreased in frequency , they are not sufficient to explain how behaviours might change in form and character over time . |
| 4 | Such modes of explanation are illustrated and distinguished with reference to various experimental studies , which provide an indication of when the different modes of explanation are understood by children . |
| 5 | Bogue and Buffa ( 1986 , pp. 169–70 ) provide an indication of how one might proceed with such tests . |
| 6 | Art show AN exhibition of over 100 paintings by the National Society of Botanic Artists is to be held at Erddig Hall , Wrexham , between June 13–27 . |
| 7 | As an illustration of such spill-over effects , imagine an economy with only two markets — a labour market and a goods market . |
| 8 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 9 | And then you put an axe in there to make a space you put a |
| 10 | The marshes on the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates cover an area of up to 17,000 square kilometres and provide a refuge for Shia opponents of Saddam 's regime . |
| 11 | The vast series of dolerite sills which have intruded the Karoo sediments of southern Africa underlie an area of over 500 000 km 2 and probably constitute a total volume of in excess of 200 000 km 2 . |
| 12 | Neither shows the plants in a close simulation of their natural habitat , but both impose an idea of how the gardener would like that habitat to be . |
| 13 | Kilnwith Percy Hall regularly opens its doors to visitors for weekend courses and summer schools , said Tabkay , whose Darlington sessions attract an average of about 12 people a week with about 40 interested members overall . |
| 14 | Come on pop an arm in here . |
| 15 | The photographs alone give an idea of how wide-ranging the interventions have been . |
| 16 | In these populated areas , fieldworkers concentrate instead on looking for scatters of finds , such as sherds of pottery and worked stones , because these give an indication of where previously unknown archaeological sites lie buried : the finds are usually brought to the surface as the sites are damaged by ploughing . |
| 17 | Many companies give an indication of how easy ( or difficult ! ) each plant is to raise so I 'd suggest that for the first year you stick with fairly easy ones , perhaps trying a couple of ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 18 | The latest findings give an indication of how narrow the Tories ' lead has become . |
| 19 | Material culture and aesthetics are outwards manifestations of a culture , and these give an indication of how consumers in a particular culture behave . |
| 20 | To provide a summary of these stages , and give an example of how Procedure Audit might work in practice , consider typical procedures for claiming travel and other expenses in a small section of a large organisation . |
| 21 | As a passage migrant des Forges and Harber give an average of about five Montagu 's Harriers a year between 1947 and 1961 but , with only about 55 recorded between 1962 and 1976 , this annual average shows a decline of about 25 per cent . |
| 22 | And that is only within about two miles you know an area of about two miles square . |
| 23 | Model predictions on the other hand indicate an altitude of about 25 km . |
| 24 | Pistol in hand , she paused just long enough for the others to catch up , and handed the goggles to Benny , deciding she 'd probably better play it safe and not risk letting any of the inhabitants of 1915 get an idea of how they worked . |
| 25 | right , what I would suggest , is somebody take , what I was going to say is if you time me reading this , okay we get an idea of how long exactly we need to make . |
| 26 | ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . |
| 27 | ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . |
| 28 | Renaissance drawings of machines , and even some of those from the eighteenth century , sometimes display an ignorance of how the device must really have worked ; and at other times they are fudged , so that important features can not be seen because the artist did not understand them . |
| 29 | The different extrapolations of the normal-state resistivity produce an uncertainty of about 20% in ( 0 ) . |
| 30 | Once you have decided your policy and put it in place , keep an eye on how well it 's working . |