Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes . |
| 2 | Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century . |
| 3 | But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent . |
| 4 | It turns out that all neurons of the primary visual cortex respond best to oriented bars or edges , though they still vary greatly among themselves as to the position their receptive field occupies in the visual field , as to the direction of preferred orientation , velocity of motion , size of bar and its polarity ( dark or light ) , and in other ways . |
| 5 | It is from the chaos of spontaneous analogizing that creativity breaks into the ordered by closed realm of analytic thinking . |
| 6 | Puzzle Wood is an area which has remained unaltered since it was transformed into tranquil woodland walks in the 1800's . |
| 7 | This is because each hair consists of a sharp , hollow spine , the walls of which contain silica , making them glass-like and brittle . |
| 8 | Germany 's high-technology/ electronics exports in the early 1970s exceeded those of France and Britain combined . |
| 9 | Each crypt consists of a superficial , longitudinal segment and a sonvoluted deep segment , the second usually appearing in transverse or oblique view on cut sections . |
| 10 | A similar objection to utilitarianism urged by Williams , Alasdair MacIntyre and others is that utilitarianism goes with a manipulative approach to human life . |
| 11 | Each level borrows from a different mythology , starting in Graeco-Roman hell ( Hades to the classical scholars ) . |
| 12 | And , of course , each level climaxes with a big supervillain . |
| 13 | The lower route passes through the wide quite valley of Scandale along a broad enclosed trackway leading to Scandale Pass . |
| 14 | Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population . |
| 15 | As the volume of private building increases over the two or three years following the proposed changes of policy , local authority housing must as soon as possible be restricted to these objects . |
| 16 | A fluid will now form inside the containing membrane , forcing the cells outward towards its surface so that , in effect , a cellular shell develops around the fluid-filled cavity . |
| 17 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 18 | Nucleic acids are strings of four kinds of ‘ nucleotides ’ : each nucleotide consists of a common piece ( which joins to other identical pieces to form the ‘ string ’ ) , and , sticking out sideways , one of four different ‘ bases ’ ( adenine , thymine , guanine , or cytosine ) . |
| 19 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 20 | The American and Australian national clearinghouses are dependent on librarians to feed them with information on a regular basis , and as each clearinghouse develops as a focal point for information exchange this is quite successful . |
| 21 | Dealers at one licensed dealer were instructed to sell specific OTC warrants on a specific day , just like shares . |
| 22 | It is vital that these needs and emotions should be acknowledged and that the solicitor should accept that professional responsibility stretches beyond the immediate legal issues of the claim , and includes a duty to proceed in a way that is comprehensible to the client and consistent with their wider needs . |
| 23 | If so , it could be that the impact of that experience parallels in a sharpened and intensified form the impact on women of the experience of child-bearing — a potent , personal experience that , however sanitised , brings a woman face-to-face with these three realities . |
| 24 | But this is only half the story , for Norris also believes that the lower jaw acts as an acoustic channel or probe for the returning sound . |
| 25 | And if Little Chef goes into a real decline will you promise to ring me ? ’ |
| 26 | Each piece deals with a single incident , a mood , or reminiscence . |
| 27 | At the heart of the development a new glazed roof stands over the two-level shopping area . |
| 28 | Without some knowledge of research it 's very hard to keep your teaching fresh and lively and interesting and relevant , and the other factor is of course that research contributes to the long-term economic base of the country . |
| 29 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 30 | ( Beyond doubt that characterization lies behind the logico-linguistic criterion considered earlier . ) |