Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turns pale-green again . ’ |
| 2 | MOTOROLA SIGNS CHORUS FOR MICROKERNEL ON POWERPC … |
| 3 | class control ; 2. interest shown by pupils ; 3. exam results ; 4. reinforces nurture within a particular religious tradition ; 5. encourages religious conversion ; 6. develops openness and tolerance towards other religions ; 7. level of information retained about religions ; 8. helps pupils to become kind and compassionate ; 9. promotes good citizenship ; 10. develops strong sense of social justice ; 11. lack of complaint about having to attend school worship ; 12. encourages willingness to question everything . |
| 4 | She receives £1,000 from the Stanley Morrison Trust . |
| 5 | Although it costs more than 49p to pick up a copy today , ‘ The Faust Tapes ’ represents money well spent . |
| 6 | Heading up the operation , Cisco has brought in Takatoshi Matsumoto as general manager , who previously headed up similar startups Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K. and System Software Associates K.K. The Japanese office will be responsible for supporting sales and maintenance services for its Japanese distributor Net One Systems Co and OEM partner NEC Corp . |
| 7 | There is thus ample evidence to support the view that let evokes permission ( assumption , command , etc. ) as not obstructing the realization of the action permitted . |
| 8 | This shuts Baz up , who breaks into a smile . |
| 9 | After perforation , the death rate nears 50% . |
| 10 | The floral tributes varied from fresh to wreaths of plastic flowers and most families request their relatives are dressed , the funeral home produces suits and dresses specifically for this purpose , bodies lie ‘ in state ’ to allow family and friends to pay their respects . |
| 11 | The other problem with this method is that column C shows 00.00 in rows there is not yet an entry in column A. To remove all these spurious zeros all you have to do is to use the command : /Worksheet , Global , Zero , Yes which displays blanks in place of 0s . |
| 12 | In turn , this strong bias affects the climate of opinion in society as a whole , but especially in the labour market , where it influences employers ' personnel officers , job centre staff , and other officials and , of course , older workers themselves . |
| 13 | I ca n't do that bloody thing , it goes arsehole upwards and all over the place . |
| 14 | Safetip wins £250 |
| 15 | All three Suffolk players come from the Stowmarket club and two were successful : Edmund Player , one of a small handful of team members who will still be young enough to play for the team again next year , and Josephine Badger , who also represents Norfolk . |
| 16 | To Mario , he said , ‘ One of your men who is quick on his feet and who understands ropes . ’ |
| 17 | Too long a time with any one of the above steps of the sequence would only serve to emphasise their ignorance , whereas variety offers opportunity for different kinds of engagement . |
| 18 | This area is probably more suited to the older children , and offers opportunity for experience of sorting , matching , comparisons and shape . |
| 19 | Variety offers opportunity for comparisons and the discovery of new and different properties , which may be generalised later ; experience of many rounded things will suggest that ‘ rounded things roll ’ . |
| 20 | This use assumes the importance of student impressions , but not their absolute truth ; it offers opportunity and incentives for self-development , but no direct penalties ; and it provides a mechanism for students to blow the whistle if problems move outside the range of acceptability . |
| 21 | Two other women lay upon the counter a pickle-bottle and a glass vessel of a kind which altogether defies description . |
| 22 | Wonderful Town was the work of the Bernstein/Comden/Green team responsible for On The Town , and although Wonderful Town is a little patchy in recording , ( which does not give a particularly strong idea of the show as a whole ) , there are plenty of excellent numbers , and their variety is refreshing from the barber-shop style ‘ My Darlin' Eileen ’ to the bluesy ‘ Ballet at the Village Vortex ’ , passing through the remarkable ‘ Swing ’ , which defies description . |
| 23 | The sheer scale of Berlioz' Requiem defies description … the massive symphony orchestra , four brass bands placed around the auditorium . |
| 24 | There 's a purity to ‘ Nevermind ’ that all but defies description , it washes over every tune , every note even . |
| 25 | It was not hype or cleverly taken pictures designed for ‘ sophisticated ’ audiences , sated daily by instant coverage of war and disaster ; the problem is real enough — and in real terms , it very nearly defies description . |
| 26 | Academics contribute to it , certainly , but writing as critics , not academics , for it involves judgement as much as elucidation . |
| 27 | It slinks greyly among the marram grass ; it slides over and under barbed wire ; it makes an eagle lose direction and settles a dank wetness on his feathers ; it softens the landscape into obscurity , it hides the familiar cliffs , it turns sheep into monsters and highland cattle into roaring mountains which lurch up towards an eagle out of the clinging mist . |
| 28 | The appellant , in a sentence , represents C.N.L. 's only possible source of the documents at this stage . |
| 29 | Zelda West-Meads of Relate understands Sarah 's reservations . |
| 30 | He stresses the way in which the acquisition of a gendered subjectivity is necessarily conflictual and involves struggle . |