Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 4.2 we discussed the way in which a hierarchical rank structure may be posited for various discourse types and considered as examples the internal structure of a series of books and a trial . |
| 2 | The former meaning may be loosely paraphrased as : ( 26 ) one of the feats commonly expected of acrobats The second meaning can not be paraphrased by ( 26 ) . |
| 3 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 4 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 5 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 6 | This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream . |
| 7 | I 've been knocking on doors the other night there . |
| 8 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 9 | The police came , brusquely sympathetic as they assessed the damage and then informed Fran that there would be men sent out to dust for fingerprints the following day . |
| 10 | It is seen as extending horizons , the means for communicating between generations the accumulated wisdom of a culture , offering opportunities to engage in more abstract context-independent learning . |
| 11 | Once the body had been viewed by members of the Privy Council and others to confirm that life had ceased and that the king was dead , word went out to summon the surgeons , apothecaries and wax chandlers ‘ to do their duties in spurging , cleansing , bowelling , searing , embalming , furnishing and dressing with spices the said corpse ’ . |
| 12 | Rather , being quasi-research activities , they are a means of promoting in students the higher-order thinking and reflection that are characteristic of a higher education . |
| 13 | According to experts the other trick … is just to slow down . |
| 14 | According to Petrobras the state-owned oil company and largest corporation in the southern hemisphere some $8.7 billion in dollars and cruzeiros have been invested in the Campos Basin alone and there are signs that the state may be taking a similar line in developing Brazil 's gas resources for energy . |
| 15 | Even if shot to pieces the commanding position of the banqueting hall would still make it defensible . |
| 16 | FOCUS ON EASELS THE ESSENTIAL PROP |
| 17 | If you read her diaries you discover that she travelled incessantly on trains and overnight trains so that she could speak at meetings the next morning . |
| 18 | I found myself looking at toupees the other day , horrible things , rat skins ! ’ |
| 19 | Looking at things the other way around , it might seem that if selection of new books could be carried out thoroughly , taking proper account of demand , and if proper weeding and replacement procedures could be instituted , stock revision would not be necessary at all . |
| 20 | The hey-day of sport in our village seems to have been from the late 19th century up to the 1914 war , with a short revival between the wars but although attempts have been made at intervals the same enthusiasm does n't seem to prevail . |
| 21 | The collaboration was then inaugurated at Marble Hill , Twickenham ( 1724–9 ) , which was the first of the buildings credited to Lord Herbert , and it was continued at most , if not all , of his subsequent works — including amongst others the White Lodge , Richmond Park ( 1727–8 ) for King George II and the Palladian bridge at his own seat of Wilton House , Wiltshire ( 1736–7 ) . |
| 22 | The early emphasis upon the powerful house-trained group going about things the proper way built up a picture of group influence and success within the context of the play of a moderate and restrained politics . |
| 23 | Then , in Capital , Marx attempts to break through and out of the veil of economic ideology , and he does this by showing that the way the economy is usually talked about hides the real basis of society and served to maintain the exploitation on which it rests . |
| 24 | When the nouns are used with numerals the appropriate classifier word must be included in the phrase . |
| 25 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |
| 26 | In return the government promised to police the five security zones inside which an estimated 13,000 contras had congregated , in line with an April agreement [ see pp. 37370-71 ] to disband under UN supervision , and to transform the security zones into development areas . |
| 27 | No one else could look at things the straightforward way that Rachel looked at things . |
| 28 | I just ca n't seem to look at peaches the same way any more . |
| 29 | If the draft is approved by ministers the general levy for cattle will rise from 190p to a maximum of 219p , calves from 12p to 14p , sheep from 34p to 39p and pigs 48p to 55p . |
| 30 | Then , while the vapour condensed into oceans the high percentage of CO 2 would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect . |