Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers on the Somerset Levels are to receive extra payments for agreeing to allow surface flooding of their fields between December and May , and ensuring that water levels in ditches do not sink below the mean field level in the summer months . |
| 2 | The figure of £15,778 under survey fees is part payment for the Race Relations Consultancy . |
| 3 | Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're welcome here , ’ he told them , and he wrote , ‘ Fighting sparrows glad at heart/ chirp in the cottage eaves . ’ |
| 5 | In other words , there must be a tension in the area just ahead of the crack and in a direction parallel to the crack surfaces . |
| 6 | Temporal periodicity is fairly self-evident It is the number of times part of the display cycles from light to dark to light again in each second . |
| 7 | The mean age of cases and controls was similar : 53.9 ( s.d. 8.8 ) and 53.1 ( s.d. 8.5 ) , respectively , and the mean cholesterol level in the control groups was identical to those obtained in the random samples of the first MONICA survey . |
| 8 | The wise student will at the outset of his course look at the examination papers for the past few years , and , whether compelled to or not , will write out the answers to some questions ( even though only in brief note form ) in order to gain practice in self-expression . |
| 9 | ‘ An alligator clip with the chrome bits removed . ’ |
| 10 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 11 | Originally , the Government and British Rail management said that there was no need for a dedicated rail route from the channel ports , and that we could manage with the existing railway infrastructure . |
| 12 | The apparatus of our state economy forms a component part of the production relations of Soviet society , that is , it is itself wholly included in the ‘ basis ’ . |
| 13 | This will help the adhesion of the gum strip to the paper fibres , so eliminating later buckling . |
| 14 | It 's cup day in cricket today with the minor counties thrown into the first round of the Nat West Trophy against the championship sides … |
| 15 | Wales B could have repeated Swansea 's midweek defeat of the world champions but Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens missed with three penalties , a conversion and a drop goal — 14 points that would have made the difference . |
| 16 | The Central Yacht Club of the Trade Unions has a good harbour and is centrally located , but its clubhouse , which looks impressive from the outside , is unfinished because of lack of funds . |
| 17 | ( Sir ) James Frazer [ q.v. ] , then also of Trinity College , was an influential supporter of anthropological field research , and Brown was encouraged by his tutor , W. H. R. Rivers , and by A. C. Haddon [ q.v. ] , to make a field study of the Andaman islanders ( 1906–8 ) . |
| 18 | On the basis of an 8-month marriage to baptism gap in the parish registers , it has been estimated that more than 40 per cent of eighteenth-century brides were pregnant . |
| 19 | Not least amongst these would be the inevitable Hawthorne effect on the teaching methods employed and , perhaps , the unacceptable intrusion upon the child 's educational experience . |
| 20 | The inductance variation is present in all Stepping motors : in variable.reluctance types it occurs as the teeth on the rotor and stator move into and out of alignment ; in permanent-magnet types it occurs as the rotating magnet flux changes the saturation level in the stator teeth ; and in hybrid types both effects contribute to the inductance variations . |
| 21 | A continual drop in the pond level despite the weather conditions , can be attributed to a leak , which will need finding and sealing . |
| 22 | These external pressures have worked through to the universities , and it may be argued that the current problems universities face in regard to research funding in the earth sciences are the result of the rapid , uncontrolled increases in the 1970's . |
| 23 | Whether speaking out for the silent rock majority against the soulboy mediacrats , or representing The Smiths as media martyrs . |
| 24 | into a distant car park as the rain permeates |
| 25 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 26 | Whereas the average radiation exposure per person from all sources in the United Kingdom is around 2.5 mSv per year ( 3.6 mSv in the USA ) , enhanced radon exposure in the granite areas of south-west England raises the average level there to 7.8 mSv , with some individuals experiencing 20 mSv in a year ( Clarke and Southwood , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | PETER Middleton , a member of a Newcastle gang which raided the Jedburgh branch of the Trustee Savings Bank last December , was jailed for three years yesterday at Jedburgh Sheriff Court . |
| 28 | Harold now wants to find the town which he can reward with the title the Mensa Mind trophy as the Easter Eggheads of Great Britain . |
| 29 | Results from a special research programme on the Bolsover farms will be published as soon as the work has been completed . |
| 30 | There are few records , and those available throw little light on the reasons for the high food costs or the labour turnover in the catering sections . |