Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case for foot rests on the presumed equivalence of contrast between foot and query , in 17 : |
| 2 | It 's been said although I would n't say it for myself that the lack of pressure for change stems from the Royal Family 's landholdings . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 4 | ‘ The ideal milieu , ’ says the reply from the WCC , ‘ would be in a Third World country ( where ) the ‘ laboratory ’ for research lies at the very door-step of the academic institution . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , down the road in Skinnergate , Darlington the cellar bar at The Bowes was a popular venue for rock acts in the Seventies . |
| 6 | Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment . |
| 7 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 8 | In addition to their apparent central role in the pathogenesis of the arterial thrombus , increasing interest has focussed on platelets and the coronary microcirculation with the finding of platelet aggregates in the coronary microcirculation in some cases of sudden cardiac death ( Haerem , 1972 ; El-Maraghi & Genton , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | But at least some of the meaning of blackbird belongs to the whole complex , and is not attributable to either black — or bird separately ; so , when black is replaced , this additional meaning is lost , along with ‘ black ’ . |
| 10 | It is great to see so many people turn up and we hope this level of support continues during the cold winter evenings ahead . |
| 11 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 12 | The power of Chaos lies in the far north of the Warhammer World far beyond the borders of the Empire . |
| 13 | The right use of freedom leads to the Christian discipline that we call ‘ holiness ’ . |
| 14 | According to Brazilian law the responsibility for controlling the sale and the use of mercury lies with the national institute for the environment , IBAMA and in theory these controls are very strict , all importers and dealers are supposed to be registered , and the use of mercury in any process and in whatever quantity , how ever small , requires an official permit . |
| 15 | For mentally impaired elderly people the relevant legislation for Guardianship and the Court of Protection occurs in the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order ( 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 17 | The process of description triggers off the narrative sequences . |
| 18 | The sense of smell operates in the same way in all mammals , including us . |
| 19 | Pre-twentieth-century poetic texts have commonly been at the core of syllabuses in the older universities , whereas the novel and more contemporary writing are commonly at the centre ( or at least imagined by many in the academic establishment to be the centre ) of course structures within the newer universities and polytechnics , institutions which are also usually viewed as less socially elite . |
| 20 | Faced with lingering criticisms that NT is still fat and slow , they 're doing lots of performance tuning and debugging — which of course leads to the burning issue of when NT will actually be released . |
| 21 | Faced with lingering criticisms that NT is still fat and slow , they 're doing lots of performance tuning and debugging , which of course leads to the burning issue of when NT will actually be shipped . |
| 22 | This argument of course relies on the questionable assumption that eye movements adequately describe the distribution of attention to a stimulus . |
| 23 | In fact , there was some flexibility and the proportion of grant-in-aid of teaching costs to the Eastern District did rise a little , actually reaching 79% in 1957–58 . |
| 24 | Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 . |
| 25 | Until the status of teaching improves in the medical profession it seems unlikely that doctors in training will choose to make the efforts necessary to acquire teaching skills . |
| 26 | This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point . |
| 27 | There has to be some trade-off between the benefits of open access and the value of integrated programmes , and I think the balance of advantage lies with the integrative approach . |
| 28 | The main area of weakness lies in the political arena . |
| 29 | We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution ! |
| 30 | Since the actual value of income diverges from the expected value by only a random error it is tempting to replace the expected income term in equation ( 3.6 ) with actual income and rewrite equation ( 3.6 ) as : |