Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employment profile of this group parallels that of the known sector but emphasises the fact that most had never worked or had only had a ‘ work experience ’ employment rather than lost their job because of heroin use . |
| 2 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 3 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 4 | Sorry yeah , certainly , part of it thinking about the way on which we put together a package of ideas , and how we 're going to get that across and sell that to the other party . |
| 5 | We 'll cover that in the next bit of the agenda . |
| 6 | In the afternoon , workshop groups will cover each of the new general SVQ areas in more detail . |
| 7 | One way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the present value of the investment and to compare that with the present cost . |
| 8 | we got neither of the free press this week |
| 9 | But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career . |
| 10 | Depressing because here was an opportunity in a mainstream publishing venture to include some of the new writing on the arts by black women in Britain . |
| 11 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 12 | Apart from the noisy inconvenience of the odd low-flying jet , the Palam Air Force ground offers some of the best practice facilities on the sub-continent . |
| 13 | Currently Spain 's Costa del Sol offers some of the best investment opportunities in land and property available anywhere in Europe . |
| 14 | For the middle grader , Pillar Rock offers some of the finest climbing in Lakeland , with only four routes above E2 in difficulty . |
| 15 | Here 's your chance to see some of the best dairy cattle in the world while taking in the sights on our coast-to-coast autumn tour of the USA . |
| 16 | They drove silently to Busacher 's house and Willi helped him indoors , relieved to see some of the old vigour returning . |
| 17 | They do relate this to the capitalist character of industry , and to the market economy , but the restructuring school would argue that the implication of this is that it is important to specify the particular capitalist nature of industry . |
| 18 | Sony will shortly upgrade this to the Extended Architecture standard enabling CD-ROM to beat portable CD-I to becoming the first multimedia handheld units to reach the commercial market . |
| 19 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 20 | WE REVIEW SOME OF THE WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS AVAILABLE |
| 21 | The authors also briefly review some of the earlier research and suggest that the conclusions appears to be conflicting . |
| 22 | Similarly , a graph of syntactic categories will eliminate some of the possible word sequences . |
| 23 | While motives may have been broadly consistent and widely shared , progress was in fact often erratic and haphazard , disagreements were many and the early Meiji leaders could scarcely have foreseen some of the longer term consequences of their policies . |
| 24 | Allowing some of the built-up tension inside her to dissipate , she forced a mocking smile to her dry lips . |
| 25 | Already UK companies have developed some of the best technology in the world and are exporting to other countries . |
| 26 | The other bad news is that not only did John Fullard get a letter for the wrong house in The Grove , he also got another on the same day intended for 27 The Oval . |
| 27 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 28 | A concerted effort on waste management could produce harmonious results and salvage some of the valuable manpower squandered by the present government in its purist attempts at national good housekeeping . |
| 29 | We had arranged to meet Mrs Newton at her home at ten o'clock and I left my flat earlier than necessary to try to miss some of the rush-hour traffic , though how you avoid a rush hour which lasts from around seven in the morning to nine o'clock at night , I do not know . |
| 30 | A second way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the investment 's expected rate of return and to compare this with the prevailing rate of interest . |