Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If a barchan formed by the prevailing wind ( Fig. 11.7A ) is subject to a strong wind from another direction ( Y on Fig. 11.7B ) , it will tend to swing round with the development of an incipient new wing at C and the overdevelopment of wing A. If the prevailing wind , X , again dominates , there will be a tendency for the dune to revert to its original form ( Fig. 11.7C ) . |
| 32 | She had been struck by the fact that in June 1873 two hundred Deputes of the French Parliament gathered before the Blessed Sacrament to consecrate their country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . |
| 33 | A sub-contractor who fails to supply the 715 voucher may have his certificate withdrawn by the Inland Revenue . |
| 34 | Labour would then benefit from the extra coverage given to the incumbent government . |
| 35 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 36 | The notes floated in the still air , strong and clear . |
| 37 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 38 | With the skeg placed at the very back , there is also less chance of spin out . |
| 39 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
| 40 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 41 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 42 | The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary . |
| 43 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |
| 44 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |
| 45 | The detailed notes given in The Supreme Court Practice at paras 20/5 — 8/2 are also pertinent . |
| 46 | The series of oral papillae is separated from the 2–3 small blunt oral tentacle scales situated on the proximal edge of the adoral shields — these scales are much smaller than the oral papillae . |
| 47 | These figures are of course calculated on the nursing agency rates . |
| 48 | He began to touch her very lightly , his hand stroking her face , the curve of her throat , and the cool skin exposed by the low neck of her top . |
| 49 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 50 | Video Plan 14 is taken from a course developed in the Free University of Berlin which used a range of texts drawn from different media . |
| 51 | BUSINESSPEOPLE in Clwyd are being invited to send their staff on a one-day customer care training course developed by the Canadian tourist industry . |
| 52 | Requests received under the British Library Document Supply Centre 's back-up scheme have again dropped very significantly to 792 , less than half of last year 's requests . |
| 53 | A simple grab rail placed in the correct place can make a considerable difference to how you cope , especially with the bath or toilet . |
| 54 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 55 | On April 11 ( mid-way through Easter Passion week ) 150 orthodox Jewish settlers moved into the St John 's Hospice , a building situated in the Christian Quarter whose ownership was the subject of a dispute between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Ataret Cohanim yeshiva ( a Jewish religious seminary and one of the main settler groups ) , the latter having reportedly paid up to US$4,500,000 for the lease . |
| 56 | How are the project plans aligned with the corporate plan ? |
| 57 | A survey of 106 health authorities undertaken by the National Association of Health Authorities in 1987 showed that most were facing severe financial pressures and taking emergency measures to meet them , such as closing wards on a temporary basis , cancelling elective operations , drawing on reserves and delaying creditor payments . |
| 58 | Billy resignedly followed his friend up the gently rising slope of the car park situated on the left hand side of the building . |
| 59 | Most nations ' note issues are now entirely fiduciary , i.e. based on faith placed in the issuing authority . |
| 60 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |