Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other , the Left Bank , is open rolling country where sheep graze prosperously on the broad grassy slopes ; valleys are wide , hills less crowded , the cover sparse , and views extensive . |
| 2 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 3 | These signals correspond precisely to the characteristic vibrations of the molecule . |
| 4 | Prices of the funds appear regularly in the Financial Times , etc . |
| 5 | To achieve full employment in Fig. 9 , it is necessary to shift the injections line upwards by the full amount of deflationary gap . |
| 6 | Down by the river the boys fish with rods cut straight from the surrounding forest and grill their catches on an open fire . |
| 7 | In ( a ) no geometrical details are allowed for and the bounds depend only on the relative volumes of the constituents . |
| 8 | Juvénal Habyarimana ) and the 70-member National Development Council ( CND ) , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour le développement — MRND ) . |
| 9 | The President 's term of office is five years , as is that of the 83-member Assembly , elected by universal suffrage ( most recently in December 1985 ) from a single list of candidates put forward by the sole party , the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde — PAICV , founded in January 1981 , when it broke away from the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau , whose rule in Guinea-Bissau was overthrown in 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) . |
| 11 | Prior to February 1990 a National Revolutionary Assembly comprising 206 People 's Commissioners representing socio-professional classes was elected every five years by universal suffrage from a list of candidates put forward by the ruling party , the Benin People 's Revolutionary Party ( Parti de la révolution populaire du Bénin — PRPB ) . |
| 12 | Until 1990 , the President 's term of office was five years , as was that of the legislature , which was elected from a single list of candidates put forward by the ruling party , the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) . |
| 13 | With the water high up on the beach the sea is very choppy and launching is very difficult because the waves break viciously on the steep upper slopes of the beach which is frequently a shingle ridge . |
| 14 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
| 15 | As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement . |
| 16 | He sat with his eyes fixed on great breakers rolling on a coral atoll somewhere in the immense Pacific . |
| 17 | Khrushchev 's boast in the 1960s that socialism would bury capitalism sounds laughable now , as Poland and Hungary scramble ahead of the Soviet Union in economic reforms . |
| 18 | The lines of the images stand out from the high quality Montval paper and are accompanied by a braille text . |
| 19 | The double sweep 1 : both fighters square off in the right stance . |
| 20 | There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road . |
| 21 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 22 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 23 | Hormones pass back to the pituitary gland , regulating its sexual function . |
| 24 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 25 | Bush Vark 's First Day Out by Charles Fuge ( MacMillan , £6.95 ) Winner of The Mother Goose Award and the MacMillan Prize 1988 Three pairs of creaturely eyes stare out from the deep black inside covers of Bush Vark 's First Day Out , whetting young appetites for nocturnal mystery and the pleasurable horrors encountered by Charles Fuge 's cheery little vark , with his slippery passivity and plain good fortune . |
| 26 | For consistency , we use a standard predictive scheme based upon thirty-five predictors representing the influences set out in the general model of media influence described in Chapter 1 . |
| 27 | Waves slap maliciously at the armoured barnacle clusters , attempting to wrench the resident seaweed back to a deeper grave . |
| 28 | Hacker put the match beyond doubt two minutes after the interval with his second strike , although Jeremy Fry in the Welsh goal was called upon to make two smart saves before , in the last minute , Mark Lewis , one of only two home-based Welsh players in the side , sent Antony Colclough away for the final goal . |
| 29 | The pundits dip haphazardly into the lucky dip . |
| 30 | The manager who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |