Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable . |
| 2 | According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors . |
| 3 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 4 | Research institutions were asked to provide information about grants and contracts received during the period 1984/85 and 1989/90 . |
| 5 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 6 | The lane led to the village one way , and off towards distant farms the other . |
| 7 | The study will be based mainly on cases referred to the Child Sexual Abuse Unit of the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street but will collect other appropriate data . |
| 8 | The PGL had a run of four successive titles broken by the NIBA last year and our hoping to get back on the rails in Dublin next month . |
| 9 | What happened instead was that after a while Filmer and Daffodil appeared in my view , making a diagonal course towards the station buildings , and pretty soon afterwards , accompanied by a lot of bell-ringing and warning hooters , a huge bright yellow diesel engine came grinding and groaning past my window followed by long corrugated silver coaches as the whole of the regular Canadian rolled up the track next to the race train and stopped precisely alongside . |
| 10 | Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas . |
| 11 | Solent look booked for the Division Three title but the battle for second place may run on until the final game . |
| 12 | We now introduce the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation such that ( R(s) being an even function ) . |
| 13 | Neil MacDonald looks at the havoc this is creating in a coup-prone land . |
| 14 | Amenable to more immediate action was the decision to write into the syllabus certain activities concerning language skills . |
| 15 | When Waddesdon Manor reopens to the public next year it 'll boast one of the finest collections of furniture , porcelain and carpets anywhere in the world . |
| 16 | The final twenty minutes saw play confined to the middle third of the pitch as both linesmen became rather flag happy with a succession of offside decisions which infuriated players and crowd alike . |
| 17 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 18 | Similarly , without knowing their thickness , it is impossible to calculate how much the low-density Lough Neagh Clay contributes to the gravity low that underlies the Lough . |
| 19 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
| 20 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 21 | Because of the idealized nature of the numerical experiments the longitudinal orientation in these maps is arbitrary and is merely determined by the specified phases of the planetary waves prescribed at the model lower boundary ( similarly for Fig. 2 ) . |
| 22 | defence insurers argued against the order 14 summons on two counts ; first the plaintiff could not obtain summary judgement because there were two defendants and one might escape liability ; secondly the first defendant sought leave to amend his defence to argue contributory negligence because the plaintiff had not worn a seat belt . |
| 23 | Some electricity companies may be able to offer you a token meter , operated by a token or rechargeable key depending on the type available . |
| 24 | But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up . |
| 25 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 26 | Negotiations are going ahead for booking top personalities like Johnny Mathis , Bob Monkhouse and Freddie Starr to appear at the club subject to approval by the licensing authorities . |
| 27 | Among all 9760 subjects included in the analysis those with periodontitis had a 25% increased risk of coronary heart disease relative to those with minimal periodontal disease . |
| 28 | The possibility therefore exists that there are specific T cell epitopes within the adenovirus 12 E1b protein — A-gliadin sequence homology that are confined to coeliac toxic prolamins . |
| 29 | Peter gave him a key to come in the flat any time , you know , of course he did did n't he , he was |
| 30 | He knew that the constable on patrol in Boundary Drive had noticed no strange cars parked in the road that night as he passed along . |