What the de-part does in 6 is offer an evaluative or assertive comment about the eventuality4 expressed by the verb immediately before de, which, according to Li and Thompson, is presupposed.5 For example, 'very good' in 6b is about how the sleeping was, not about the manner or way in which the sleeping action took place.
The homelessness and rough sleeping action group, commissioned by the Scottish government and chaired by Sparkes, set out its first recommendations in November, which were immediately implemented.
Things can certainly sleep, and actions can be performed furiously, but "colorless green" is a contradiction, and "sleep furiously" has difficulties associated with it, and assigning either phrase to "idea" does serious violence to our idea of what ideas are, what properties they have, and what they can do.
España, R. A., Baldo, B. A., Kelley, A. E. & Berridge, C. W. Wake-promoting and sleep-suppressing actions of hypocretin (orexin): basal forebrain sites of action.
So the next time someone challenges you to explain how sleep and action can coexist (or why "active sleep" isn't an oxymoron), you can tell them that sleep provides the brain the perfect opportunity to check off a "to-do list" while the rest of you, well, sleeps.
Behavioural strategies (adapted from Harvey [ 54]) are introduced and participants are asked to create a sleep goal (action plan) and implement it as homework.
He said that his actions -- sleep deprivation, hypothermia, dietary manipulations and use of dogs, all illegal according to American and international law -- were relatively mild compared with what else was being practiced.
GABAergic neurons in prepositus hypoglossi regulate REM sleep by its action on locus coeruleus in freely moving rats.
This paper applies a knowledge-to-action (KTA) framework to assess the strengths and weaknesses of such programs and to identify strategies that can be used to enhance the translation of empirical evidence in pediatric sleep to effective action.
According to Black's reading of published data, the drug was selective — focussed on sleep — in its action on GABA receptors, but only in doses that were too low to induce sleep.
