Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward lights the blue touch-paper at York |
| 2 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline . |
| 4 | ‘ Peake plays the same way before a 5,000 crowd or a 50,000 crowd . |
| 5 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 6 | The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures . |
| 7 | The sumptuous Sherborne Missal represents the high point of Siferwas 's art . |
| 8 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 9 | Sussex offers the Elizabethan majesty of Parham House , the Edwardian beauty of Parham House , the Edwardian beauty of Preston Manor and the Classical lines of Petworth House . |
| 10 | It is likely that our case represents the sporadic type of the disorder , in the absence of any family history . |
| 11 | Her position is that the person who calls on Osiris or Krishna or Buddha with a pure heart receives the Holy Spirit within his own tradition and not by abandoning it for another . |
| 12 | A separate contract involves the early removal of the contents of tar tanks discovered on the site . |
| 13 | Bankside represents the fullest realisation of his industrial aesthetic . |
| 14 | The 1st oboe plays the top line in the preceding four bars , and gives place to the 1st clarinet on reaching the aforesaid high F. Note the smooth movement of the horns in the chord-passage , and the introduction of the 2nd clarinet on the low E to complete the harmony at the sixth bar from the end . |
| 15 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | This synkinematic , footwall intrusive suite constitutes the northeastern part of South Mountains and includes ( from oldest to youngest ) South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) . |
| 17 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 18 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 19 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 20 | In fact the Central Statistical Office 's view is that the published deficit overstates the real level by no more than £2bn or £3bn . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most interesting theory states that the physical door-hanging represents the spiritual doorway to the Islamic heaven , which has four gardens at its innermost core . |
| 22 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 23 | David Kane 's witty and incisive play evokes the decadent sensuality of the period . |
| 24 | Written in a terse , academic style that at times obstructs the true horror of her depictions of bloodshed and rebellion , Pearce offers an invaluable source of information , full of clearly laid out sections and chronological charts . |
| 25 | This mixture of anarchy , looseness-of-link and contingency encourages the discrete offering of management skills which will help the student to cope with the four or five separable outcomes of the legislative changes of the late 1980s . |
| 26 | The left foot represents the left side of the body and the right … well I 'll leave you to work that one out ! |
| 27 | ABA involves the scientific application of one of the most robust theories in psychology . |
| 28 | Turning now to the manic alternative to depression , we find that in welfare totalitarianisms periodic alcoholic intoxication constitutes the externalized equivalent of the purely psychic state of intoxication which is produced by internal means in the manic individual . |
| 29 | The precise disposition , organisation and arrangement of these two discourses constitutes the basic fabric of Nizan 's fictional technique . |
| 30 | Coupling the laser to the ICP mass spectrometer offers the exciting prospect of obtaining much greater information on the composition of fluid inclusions . |