Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the toxic effects of aluminium on fish are complex and , if the calcium content of the water is high , its ions are preferentially adsorbed on the gill surfaces where they block the absorption of aluminium ions and so reduce their impact ( Mason , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | The proposals covered are development in a conservation area , works to a listed building or which affect the setting of a conservation area or a listed building , and developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 3 | Tom 's pay rise or his leaving the company are events , and attributes of the entity EMPLOYEE will be referred to following these events . |
| 4 | It is obvious to me now , though perhaps it was not then , that every revolution will evoke a response from those who fear change or who question the wisdom of moving too far or too quickly from the comfort which traditional practice gives . |
| 5 | Go to almost any city and you find sink estates where you get the feeling that the council hates the place and the people too . |
| 6 | This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force . |
| 7 | It would appear , however , that Chalmers is content at the Greenyards where he considers the quality of the coaching to be among the ‘ highest at club level in the UK . ’ |
| 8 | Our growth projects will be in sectors where we enjoy the advantage of efficient technology and low-cost feedstocks . |
| 9 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 10 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 11 | Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder . |
| 12 | There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock . |
| 13 | She has hung ‘ Christabel ’ in her bedroom where it catches the morning sun and shows up my imperfections . |
| 14 | A mortgage is an annuity where you pay the building society a regular sum that eventually reduces the balance of debt to nothing . |
| 15 | Reconnection takes place at X , converting closed field lines , c , into open field lines , o , which form a rotational field discontinuity where they cross the magnetopause ( dashed line ) . |
| 16 | Before her a green sea rippled , melting into azure where it met the sky . |
| 17 | He has also played the lover , as in Green Card where he played the Frenchman in search of a permit to stay in America . |
| 18 | He keeps her a prisoner in a fish pond where he stores the catch . |
| 19 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 20 | If you are a person who is classified as being ‘ at risk ’ , that is elderly , frail or disabled in some way , then you should seriously consider either living in a sheltered housing complex where you have the safety net of alarms in every room rigged to a 24-hour warden service , or subscribing to a medical alert system . |
| 21 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 22 | The Argentina captain said yesterday he was unrepentant , but added : ‘ If I have to say sorry I will , ’ for his remarks on Tuesday that he believed the draw was decided in advance , putting Argentina in the hardest group . |
| 23 | It 's true we were acquainted , with the result that I discovered the imposture as soon as her doppelgänger arrived . |
| 24 | Some can include an element of investment so you have the prospect of a cash sum at the end of your policy term . |
| 25 | It 's not called like a golf club that you hit the ball with ? |
| 26 | It was as commander of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards that he won the DSO at the Battle of Tumbledown during the Falklands campaign . |
| 27 | Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people . |
| 28 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 29 | And it was in this frame of mind that I undertook the journey to visit a witchdoctor who reputedly had the ability to establish contact between a person and their ancestors . |
| 30 | Roughly speaking , chapters in the present alternate with chapters from earlier periods , cast in such different styles that they emphasize the novel 's formal discontinuity . |