Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly for them , their response to it works against them and encourages the very behaviour they fear most . |
| 2 | Six or seven has the same effect if you land right , leaving you with an aching crotch and bruised joints if you 're lucky . |
| 3 | The beams are reflected at M 1 ( M 2 ) , return , recombine coherently at M again , and are detected by a photosensitive device . |
| 4 | Well then I went to a private school on Road , two maiden ladies kept that , and we were taught to er walk properly , sit properly , dance , music , learnt the piano there , and embroider , and erm chiefly the educational side of schooling was almost non-existent . |
| 5 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 6 | Taking notes is one of the best ways to stay alert and gain most from lectures , but how many notes and what sort ? |
| 7 | A key fact about the tax benefit welfare state is that those on the highest incomes gain most . |
| 8 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 9 | Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model . |
| 10 | He claims these reptiles make superb pets as they sit incredibly still for hours and then go on the rampage — very much like Pest Control staff ! |
| 11 | It is the custom , you understand , for the bride and groom to slip away from the wedding during the evening celebration , and hide somewhere — at a friend 's for example . ’ |
| 12 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 13 | The evidence , however , would suggest that in general schools either make little attempt to develop this ability in their pupils , or if they do , it is done very ineffectively . |
| 14 | It 's all right for me — I can close my eyes for a moment , and stroke my beard , and make little gasping noises to myself . |
| 15 | Whatever the mechanism , our findings suggest that axonal electrical activity normally stimulates the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells , thereby increasing the number of oligodendrocytes that develop locally . |
| 16 | Fords and bridge sites often change little over the years and Watkins cites several examples of leys crossing rivers at fords . |
| 17 | Its fantastic white sands and clear seas of deepest sapphire attract regular visitors , yet this region 's beaches remain remarkably uncrowded most of the time . |
| 18 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 19 | The National Curriculum sections of the ERA , essentially centralising and directive in character , sit uneasily with a variety of other arrangements which undermine the Local Education Authority as intermediary between centre ( DES ) and periphery ( school ) : ‘ opting out ’ , City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) , open enrolment , local management of schools ( LMS ) . |
| 20 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 21 | The NME of this period is a mutant hybrid where reviews of Engelbert Humperdinck , Andy Williams , The Doors and Led Zeppelin sit uneasily side by side on the page . |
| 22 | It will be clear that these two dynamical elements , the smooth propagation a la Schrödinger and the discontinuous collapse on making a measurement , sit uneasily side by side . |
| 23 | But the traditions and conventions of scepticism and proper doubt sit uneasily with the current politics of commitment and conviction , whether of the left or the right . |
| 24 | Such arguments sit uneasily within a tradition of British poverty research where data are constructed in ways which prevent ‘ race ’ ( let alone racism ) being a focus of analysis . |
| 25 | The businessmen brought in to run the Councils have been frustrated by the tight operating and financial practices imposed by the Department of Employment Such practices sit uneasily alongside the entrepreneurial freedom that business leaders are used to ( see Guardian , 23 March 1990 ) . |
| 26 | ( If this makes you squirm , or giggle nervously , you have just recognised yourself ! ) |
| 27 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 28 | The first known students of language in the Western tradition , the scholars of Greece and Rome , were aware of these different approaches too , and divided grammar from rhetoric , the former being concerned with the rules of language as an isolated object , the latter with how to do things with words , to achieve effects , and communicate successfully with people in particular contexts . |
| 29 | smirk right on the |
| 30 | This partial detachment from natural appearances , which has already been seen in the landscapes of Picasso and Braque of 1908 , is one of the factors that distinguish most clearly their approach from that of Cézanne and other nineteenth-century artists , and even from the Fauves , whose vision , with the occasional exception of Matisse , despite the liberties they took with their subjects , was still conditioned by their instantaneous reactions to their surroundings . |