Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb base] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other studies guided by a similar spirit of fidelity have employed the verbatim method and produced more coherence . |
| 2 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 3 | Since the ‘ second wave ’ of the women 's movement exploded onto the scene on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1960s , few fields of study have escaped the searching gaze of feminism . |
| 4 | Different fields of research have disclosed the many different factors that can affect both physical and mental behaviour . |
| 5 | The area has been affected by deep Tertiary weathering and substantial amounts of ilmenite have entered the secondary environment , especially through fluvioglacial erosion . |
| 6 | It is not self-evident that all clarifications or developments of the laws of war have to take the familiar form of multilateral conventions . |
| 7 | Those values and that conception of society have permeated the American consciousness , so much so that they have largely gone unstated . |
| 8 | Why did the Secretary of State keep using the qualifying phrase : ’ I have less for other programmes ’ in his budget ? |
| 9 | Did Nkrumah 's policy of accommodation mean following the middle way ? |
| 10 | Over four thousand years of history have moulded the Indian peninsula into a tradition-laden , caste-conscious land of carved marble mosques , dramatic mountain scenery and spectacular coastline . |
| 11 | The combination of performance , light weight , fuel economy and higher standards of comfort have made the mid-range class desirable in its own right . |
| 12 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 13 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 14 | Strategies for control have included the compulsory sale of 51 per cent of the share capital in the businesses nationalized by Tanzania 's Arusha Declaration in 1967 , the compulsory sale of the majority of share capital by all large companies in Nigeria from 1974 to 1977 , and the ‘ creeping sale ’ of 20 per cent of issued share capital in the Ivory Coast required from 1975 onwards ( achieved by issuing new equity ) . |
| 15 | The proportion of lone parent families arising from divorce have shown the largest increases between 1976 and 1986 — almost 80% in the decade . |
| 16 | Wild animals tend to hide away when they fall ill or are injured , and those in captivity try to do the same , but it 's almost impossible for them . |
| 17 | Jesus 's words to the Samaritan woman about worship in spirit and in truth seem to cut the Christian free from historical roots . |
| 18 | Changes in mortality have influenced the marital status composition of the older age groups in Britain over the last century . |
| 19 | ‘ Jack ’ ( ) , is on board ship controlling the overhead conveyor . |
| 20 | In Ecuador there has been little unionisation , but organisations based on ethnicity have given the indigenous rural population an effective foundation for action . |
| 21 | All privatisations to date have placed the public sector utility in the private sector . |
| 22 | Some policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting |
| 23 | ‘ People who think the song is about ecstasy have got the wrong end of the stick . ’ |