Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Punan groups of northwestern Borneo may have taken up their lifestyle initially from demand for various forest products prized by the Chinese over 1000 years ago . |
| 2 | Secondary analyses were to include within group comparisons of arrhythmias , oxygen saturation , pulse rate , and blood pressure between the pre , per , and postgastroscopy periods , using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test for the frequecy of arrhythmias , and the Students t test for the remaining normally distributed data . |
| 3 | The problem can be overcome in the case of any straight step function by evaluating the Fourier transform of the corresponding exponentially decaying step function and then finding its limit as the rate of decay goes to zero . |
| 4 | International organisations , though on a bread-and-butter level becoming from the 1860s rapidly more important and active , were still very much on the fringes of conventional diplomacy . |
| 5 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |
| 6 | Her eyes moved to the left again to look at the locker . |
| 7 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 8 | This chapter deals with the two most formally complex types of lexical configuration , namely , hierarchies and proportional series . |
| 9 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 10 | Corbett walked over the soft rather damp clay of the cemetery , Ranulf and Maltote on either side . |
| 11 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 12 | His eyes settled on the automatic once again . |
| 13 | A large ( 33 million word ) corpus was taken and sets of ten nearest neighbours of words derived for the thousand most common words in the corpus . |
| 14 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 15 | Everyone 's eyes turn to the other so await its reappearance . |
| 16 | The poignant shaking of the hands above upraised heads followed by the pressing downwards , outwards and then backwards of the arms make an overwhelming plea for pity in MacMillan 's Requiem . |
| 17 | The lower route passes through the wide quite valley of Scandale along a broad enclosed trackway leading to Scandale Pass . |
| 18 | I accompanied her during house visits , at day and night , during surgery , and various other sessions with ages ranging from the newborn right through to the elderly and retired . |
| 19 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 20 | As an inducement to the merger , the Government provided a £13.5 million grant for the development of a new computer range to compete with the then best selling System/360 computer family sold by IBM . |
| 21 | The first form of the therapy was carried out by scientists at America 's National Institutes of Health in 1990 on a four-year-old girl suffering from the same potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 22 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 23 | In Pale Rider , Eastwood returns from the dead again as an angel , and this time re-runs the plot of Shane , showing more affection for the community and for the values of the Western hero . |
| 24 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 25 | There are two periods of Romanesque in Spain : the basic Spanish product , of buildings erected before the great southward expansion in the late eleventh century and a transitional style of Late Romanesque of twelfth and thirteenth century work , resulting both from this expansion and from the French influence coming in from the north-east . |
| 26 | The numbers recorded have always been small , although quite marked influxes occurred in the three most recent severe winters , with about 42 in 1946/47 , 40–50 in early 1956 , and 60 in 1962/63 . |
| 27 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 28 | I do n't know anything about Wallaces goal even though I heard the match report on the 12:00 A.M. BBC 5 sports news . |
| 29 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 30 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |