Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The repressor molecules bind very stably to an ‘ operator ’ region of the chromosome ( O ) , and block the synthesis of messenger RNA from the genes G 1 , G 2 , and G 3 . |
| 2 | The first-year course concentrates on modern German language and modern German literature , with teaching hours shared approximately equally between the two components . |
| 3 | The account of Tottle 's suicide at the end of the story fits very awkwardly into the overall facetious tone of the piece . |
| 4 | He found the predatory birds oriented less accurately to the alarm calls , as Marler would have predicted . |
| 5 | The long-range effects of mutations in the variable loop we then found for the synthesis of m 2 2G26 prompted us to investigate if also the formation of modifications in the anticodon loop were sensitive to point mutations situated far away in the tRNA . |
| 6 | This loss of faith goes far deeper among the young than the old . |
| 7 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 8 | SustainAbility was born , to spawn the Green Consumer Guide ( 300,000 copies sold so far in the UK ) ; the consultancy , offering environmental audits of business resources ; and of course ; success . |
| 9 | Political change of some kind goes on continuously in every society , in response to a variety of changing internal and external conditions , which include the relation to nature and to other societies , the interaction of groups within each society , and the unceasing circulation of personnel through the disappearance of older generations and the rise of new ones . |
| 10 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 11 | To our eternal regret there were no windows in the north wall which overlooked Broad Bay and , in the foreground , our five acre croft sloping gently away from the house to the top of sea cliffs . |
| 12 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 13 | The needles are then brought to the holding position and the knitting moved forward SLIGHTLY on the needles so that it is just forward of the sinker posts . |
| 14 | It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hide up further along the road towards Maidenhead , and then to descend upon the unfortunate post-boy . |
| 15 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 16 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |
| 17 | From the back the sack looks very much like the Condor , for it has the same capacity — 60 litres expanding to 80 . |
| 18 | Scottish merchants grumbled rather more about the new dispensation ; they were perfectly willing and able to be Europeans , but any outlet for trade would do , and there were complaints — in 1524 , for example — about the Auld Alliance with France , because it affected their opportunities not only in Flanders and Spain , but also in England . |
| 19 | ‘ You disappoint me , ’ he said under his breath , and Rachel 's heart beat even faster at the darkness in his voice . |
| 20 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 21 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 22 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 23 | South West bounced back again with a try from Jeremy Guscott and completed their triumph with a Jon Webb penalty . |
| 24 | Detailed analysis shows that the dominant member of the pair starts the calling , but the other male joins in just of a second later . |
| 25 | This will be an opportunity to find out more about the course , and how parishes can be more active in helping families to provide mutual help and support to each other in carrying out their vital role in the Church and society . |
| 26 | It is chiefly the noun metaphor which has caused philosophers and estheticians to worry so greatly about the relationship of these two terms and the basis on which they are compared . |
| 27 | The locational division corresponds pretty well with a manufacturing-service distinction . |
| 28 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 29 | However , the guaranteed harmony of economic activity resulting either from a mechanistic or biological analogy fits in awkwardly with a Christian view of man and work . |
| 30 | This demonstration led shortly afterwards to the demonstration in the Radcliffe Infirmary of its effectiveness in patients with blood poisoning ; subsequently penicillin became one of the most important therapeutic agents in the history of medicine and has saved the lives of millions of animals and human beings . |