Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the press , groups developed in the 1970s and 1980s from several directions . |
| 2 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 3 | The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 4 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 5 | Our sympathy goes to the bereaved and the injured . |
| 6 | An important motivator for units to apply for trust status was the freedom to borrow from the public and private sectors to finance capital investment . |
| 7 | Various activities developed during the 1890s and early 1900s . |
| 8 | Service ethos refers to the formal and informal social climate prevailing in a social service agency which influences the extent of use made by different groups of people . |
| 9 | Never at any stage was the challenger intimated by the controversial and eccentric Eubank — now unbeaten in 36 fights . |
| 10 | The decision to proceed with the hydro-electric and irrigation project has been taken despite the fact that essential funding from the EC has yet to be approved . |
| 11 | There is a contradiction between the trade-liberalisation policies undertaken by the Eastern and Central European countries and their wish to join an economic community . |
| 12 | One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless , leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics . |
| 13 | Mr Morse points to the ageing and unpleasant sanitary point where boat users dump their waste next to the town 's bus station . |
| 14 | Livestock stocking densities are substantially higher ( 40% in 1979/80 ) in Powys than in Cantal ( though sheep predominate in the former and cattle in the latter ) . |
| 15 | My own preferences tend toward the simple and straightforward as far as switching is concerned . |
| 16 | A technique refers to the mechanical or agronomic method applied , and in any one conservation project there may a considerable variety . |
| 17 | Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance . |
| 18 | To quote Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) again : ‘ The moves beyond Rayner to the FMI represent attempts to work within the political and organisation system , rather than against it and to couch debate in terms of means rather than ends ’ . |
| 19 | Despite a spirited correspondence in both the London and Tyneside newspapers about the need for ventilation and the defects of Davy 's lamp , Holmes was unable to get his proposals considered by the rigid and uncompromising owners . |
| 20 | You should certainly benefit from some kind of major career or professional change to come around the 4th and the 11th . |
| 21 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 22 | The percentage of biliary cholesterol carried by the vesicular and non-vesicular fractions was calculated by measuring the area under their respective peaks , as a proportion of the total area under the cholesterol radioactivity curve eluted from the chromatographic column . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ Harry said , through teeth clenched against the cold and the deeper cold of fear . |
| 24 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 25 | The use of timber frame in house building quadrupled in the 1970s and nearly half a million houses were built by this method . |
| 26 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |
| 27 | Each household was given a number of strips scattered between the desirable and less desirable fields . |
| 28 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 29 | The A.838 leaves Durness and heads directly for Kylesku and the distant south along the only route permitted by the harsh and uncompromising terrain . |
| 30 | Waiting impatiently while he found an International Dialling Code leaflet , Gina tapped her fingers in a nervous tattoo against the wall , her previous euphoria shattered by the welcome but unexpected news . |