Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What counts as reason stands in the dock accused , on the one hand , of being mere appearance ( the emperor never had any clothes syndrome ) and , on the other , of representing vested interests of the academic community and the wider society . |
| 2 | One insists that science has at least something in common with map-making . |
| 3 | The report , Goodwill and Other Intangibles , by academics John Arnold , Don Egginton , Linda Kirkham , Richard Macve and Ken Peasnell ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , June , p 35 ) , says that goodwill divides into three components : the fair value of separately identifiable intangible assets ; the present value of benefits arising from jointness of activities and market imperfections ( such as monopoly position and barriers to entry ) ; and over- or underpayment . |
| 4 | However , Whipple says that assumption leads to predictions of gas and dust production rates much smaller than those observed , and also would be unable to account for the formation of the Perseid meteor shower , linked with the comet . |
| 5 | The major difference between these two forms is that CPM assumes that the time required to complete an activity can be predicted fairly accurately , and thus the costs involved can be quantified once the critical path has been identified , whereas PERT assumes that time has to be estimated in drawing up the critical path . |
| 6 | When demand is high or prices increase there is a tendency to cultivate marginal areas , but when the economic situation reverses the opposite trend occurs and cultivation focuses on the most productive land . |
| 7 | Right and what happens when electricity flows through this little coiled coil of wire ? |
| 8 | But although the impact of women 's liberation remains resilient in the culture , a question remains : given the assumption that the road to liberation lay , among other things , in women 's economic independence , what happens when employment ceases to be an alternative " destiny " ? |
| 9 | An ‘ airlock ’ occurs when air gets into a pipe and prevents the flow of water . |
| 10 | This is why when trust goes and doubt comes in such a shadow is cast , such a wound is opened , such a hole is left . |
| 11 | Even if things look pretty grim at the moment consideration of twentieth-century housing developments in North Shields shows that capital has by no means always has its own way and that , as Ball indicates above , capital is not undifferentiated in relation to land and what is built on it . |
| 12 | Daniel Yergin 's recent book ‘ The Prize ’ shows that oil has for decades been cosseted with tax breaks and government subsidies . |
| 13 | Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial . |
| 14 | The chances of achieving great things with your puppy increases if training begins at an early age . |
| 15 | This theory states that motivation comes from a combination of personalizing the consequences of unhealthy behaviours and developing the self-efficacies or coping skills to change one 's behaviour . |
| 16 | He states that ideology consists of the beliefs and values of a ruling group which ‘ obscures the real condition of society both to itself and others and thereby stabilizes it ’ . |
| 17 | The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders states that conversion costs between £5 and £35 , depending on the make and registration of your car . |
| 18 | It appears that play begins during the period when the separation between consciousness and unconsciousness is becoming more deeply dichotomized , and that , following the development of language , objects never again have such a prominent place in our articulation or self-expression . |
| 19 | The neurophysiological CTP asserts that perception consists of neural events triggered by events in the perceived object . |
| 20 | During summer , the soil moisture deficit usually prevents rainfall from reaching the aquifer , and the water table falls as water flows from the aquifer and is not replaced . |
| 21 | Because individuals vary , their responses to the same stress or insult may also vary , which means that treatment has to be prescribed specifically for that patient . |
| 22 | Looking after three young children , being involved in various groups as well as doing part-time evening work means that Faith depends on food that 's quick and convenient to prepare . |
| 23 | A firm belief in the priesthood of all believers means that singing belongs to the whole congregation as well as to the choir . |
| 24 | In practice this means that attention tends to be more on the output that on the input . |
| 25 | The new furnace means that waste comes into minimum contact with staff . |
| 26 | Rapid production in modern food factories usually means that food has to be weighted into packets , cans and jars automatically . |
| 27 | So the result of the unanticipated movement in aggregate demand is merely to create excess demand : prices are already fixed at P and the quantity rule implies that output remains at Y n . |
| 28 | Police moves after teenager dies at LEGAL party . |
| 29 | Any sense of expressive immediacy is an illusion : use-value is replaced totally by value in exchange ; autonomy disappears as music turns into nothing more than ‘ social cement ’ ( Adorno 1941 : 39 ) ; production is reduced , in effect , to reproduction . |
| 30 | The Foro Economico , a Bolivian think-tank , estimates that cocaine exports in 1985 reached a value of between $2 billion and $3 billion . |