Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 32 | In the following , for example , the speakers alternate between the main topic of the aerobics and the lesser topic of the missing watch : |
| 33 | However , if in addition to the sole accounts you operate a joint a joint current or savings account with the same bank or building society , you should check from the outset whether the terms and conditions include a right of set off , whereby funds on these accounts may be required to repay the debt on others held by you or your partner . |
| 34 | Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’ |
| 35 | Oversized books suffer from the serious disadvantage that they are housed in a separate sequence from the main stock , and are invariably less well used . |
| 36 | Light aircraft fly into the nearby airport full of commuters who make sophisticated value judgements on the place . |
| 37 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 38 | Now let us see how the branches grow from the main trunk ; at what angle do they grow from the trunk ? |
| 39 | Milton was advised that this ‘ will be a means to make most of the Trades fly against the present sett . |
| 40 | This requires that capital and labour grow at the same rate ; i.e. , and . |
| 41 | Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 . |
| 42 | In particular , the copper phenanthroline hypersensitive bands at positions -4 , -5 , -6 ( Fig. 5 lanes 1 , 3 , 5–10 ) which are characteristic of the unwound DNA structure of the open complex appear with the same intensity for all enzymes . |
| 43 | A statutory power to make delegated legislation will not empower the delegate to make rules designed to oust the jurisdiction of the courts unless very clear words to this effect appear in the enabling statute . |
| 44 | The three authors focus on the artistic mode of production , its socio-historic contextualisation , and its patterns of collection respectively . |
| 45 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 46 | Grenada Schools retained their Sir Garfield Sobers Schools title in the annual tournament in Barbados in July . |
| 47 | ‘ Animals die in the open air . ’ |
| 48 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 49 | We can therefore see that certain aspects of economic practice depend upon the so-called superstructure , as well as the other way round , and Althusser concludes that it is a serious error to neglect this aspect of Marx 's theory . |
| 50 | Cognitive–Behavioural treatments have been the most extensively evaluated interventions of all the psychotherapeutic schools in relation to these disorders and they do indicate that clients benefit in the short term , but little is known about the maintenance of change in the long term . |
| 51 | Above : John and Veronica relax in the Chinese-green sitting room , which lends itself to a Christmas colour scheme of red and green Left : Tree lights and softly lit rooms give a festive glow to the Saunders ' Victorian terraced house in Heaton Moor , near Manchester |
| 52 | Under the immensity of weight which such considerations hold for the developing youngster , it is not surprising that sexuality falls into comparative disregard . |
| 53 | ‘ Master , ’ I touched him on the shoulder , ‘ it is strange that these messengers stop at the same convent where the Lady Francesca was educated . |
| 54 | Assuming the European market mirrors the US trend , there is still room for almost indefinite growth , and all soft drinks manufacturers benefit from the massive marketing programmes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi . |
| 55 | Many of the effects described in this and the next chapter depend on the optical step-printer which is a ‘ one-frame-at-a-time ’ printer , as opposed to continuous run past a light-admitting slit as used to produce duplicates ( 'dupes ' ) and release prints . |
| 56 | Isolated pockets of Labour support for lesbians and gays continued , but the rest of 1987 saw Labour silent in the face of renewed homophobic attacks by the Tories — the reference to the Positive Images issue in the 1987 election propaganda , the advocacy of traditional family values in the Department of Education and Science circular on sex education . |
| 57 | Let us now see how readers react to the real thing . |
| 58 | We may agree with much of Wilson 's emphasis on the need for public policy that promotes universal programmes and increases employment and training opportunities open on the same basis to all people . |
| 59 | In fact , many Club guests choose to take the full trips package at the very start of their holiday , which means they know that certain nights out and meals are already catered for — and you 'll be amazed how much that can save you on the food and drinks bill . |
| 60 | But there is no doubt that libel law does in other respects impinge upon the justifiable freedom of the press . |