Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 FACES WITHOUT HOPE : Bosnian captives peer blankly from a barbed wire compound in the Omarska camp .
3 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 .
4 These signals correspond precisely to the characteristic vibrations of the molecule .
5 Prices of the funds appear regularly in the Financial Times , etc .
6 Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process .
7 To achieve full employment in Fig. 9 , it is necessary to shift the injections line upwards by the full amount of deflationary gap .
8 Down by the river the boys fish with rods cut straight from the surrounding forest and grill their catches on an open fire .
9 In ( a ) no geometrical details are allowed for and the bounds depend only on the relative volumes of the constituents .
10 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 ) .
11 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 ) .
12 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 ) .
13 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 ) .
14 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 ) .
15 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 .
16 As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement .
17 He sat with his eyes fixed on great breakers rolling on a coral atoll somewhere in the immense Pacific .
18 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 .
19 There are few descriptions of the histological features of gold induced colitis , but a preservation of glandular architecture and diffuse inflammatory cell infiltrate sometimes with a prominent eosinophil component are said to be characteristic .
20 Waves slap maliciously at the armoured barnacle clusters , attempting to wrench the resident seaweed back to a deeper grave .
21 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 .
22 The pundits dip haphazardly into the lucky dip .
23 An alternative is to take a data feed electronically from an established computerised accounting database , such as Extel Financial 's MicroEXSTAT , allowing full company analysis within seconds and tables of main customers to be drawn up and monitored automatically .
24 They have obvious advantages over ordinary questionnaires and ‘ checklists ’ : with these one can in practice ask only about a limited number of activities which must be precisely specified in advance .
25 Comparison of their chemistry with that of magmas erupted on oceanic islands demonstrates the plumes differ chemically from the upper mantle .
26 When you arrive at the traffic lights in Welshpool turn left into the main street and carry on up past the town hall on your right hand side .
27 But the ramifications of the study go well beyond the private law of finance and property on divorce .
28 Some trajectories wander forever near the strange invariant set which has become a strange attractor .
29 For r { 24.74 it is still possible to find some trajectories which spiral into C+ , but , at r = rH 24.74 , C+ lose stability and in r } 24.74 all numerically computed trajectories wander forever near the strange attractor .
30 In the Kenyan savannahs where chimpanzees were first studied intensively in the wild , the animals live primarily on a vegetarian diet of fruit and leaves , together with insects such as termites .
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