Example sentences of "[verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
2 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
3 | But Mr MacSharry , described as being ‘ difficult to get to know ’ , still works extremely hard and plays little . |
4 | Since the true wind is so strong , the apparent wind plays little part . |
5 | ( ’ Cardinal York' , as he became known , was a fervent believer in the Stuart cause and eventually called himself Henry IX , but plays little further part in the invasion story . ) |
6 | Our author is aware of these objections but , even though Christ plays little part in his religious vision , he does find a contemplative exemplar in the gospels in the story of Martha and Mary . |
7 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
8 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
9 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
10 | True to Reid 's claim that the debate jumped to solutions , we now find that a major response to economic decline and youth unemployment has been the Youth Training Scheme organised through the Manpower Services Commission of the Department of Employment , in which the school sector plays little part . |
11 | Now it 's where the family sit each evening cosy on a rug in the dim smoky light ; like the black house dwellers in the Western Isles preferring the warmth of the hearth to the luxury of space . |
12 | Instead of rapidly expanding the ranks of the Party , it threatened , in their view , to reduce them ; instead of bridging the gap between a party dominated by members of the intelligentsia and the working masses , it threatened to institutionalize that gap . |
13 | She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair . |
14 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
15 | So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ? |
16 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
17 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
18 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
19 | Well , those beautiful ones , those beautiful heads and things he did after he met that girl called Marie-Thérèse Walter I always think those are so beautiful . |
20 | It was n't until the fourth hide was reached that I met that extraordinary bird , the red-necked phalarope . |
21 | At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia . |
22 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
23 | You met that man last night , Stephen . |
24 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
25 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
26 | Not even in Paradise Street had Rose met that phenomenon . |
27 | In his gigantic sum over histories there is a vast amount of interference between the contributions of neighbouring paths which have a tendency to cancel each other out . |
28 | Instead it has to be made up of a band of waves of different wavelengths , cunningly chosen to cancel each other out outside the region of width unc and to reinforce each other inside it . |
29 | This means that their spins are guaranteed to cancel each other out to give a total spin of zero . |
30 | Thus , if all the infinities in supergravity turn out to cancel each other out , we could have a theory that not only filly unifies all the matter particles and interactions , but that is complete in the sense that it does not have any undetermined renormalization parameters . |