Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My feet tickle with the marching rhythm .
2 If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents .
3 As the nights grew darker and colder , dinner parties grew scarcer and most nights Alexandra spent by her own fire , doing her meticulous accounts , writing faithfully to her father or answering George Langley 's breezy and frequent letters from Cambridge , Rose and Grace Langley were in London until Christmas , their hunters idle in the stable and Alexandra 's life was both peaceful and satisfying in their absence .
4 Its authors point to the relative rarity of hysteria nowadays when compared with its frequent occurrence before the First World War :
5 Then they heard — their ears alert for the slightest changes in the grind of the traffic — a car slowing just behind them .
6 More than a dozen of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada ; other pictures are in galleries all across Canada , and in the homes of art lovers in Europe and America .
7 He saw one of her heels sink into the soft grass , she almost fell .
8 They know she can be relied on to make the big day for her clients sparkle with the perfect glittering accessory .
9 Some of the arachidonic acid derived eicosanoids ( prostaglandin E 2 , leukotriene B 4 , and thromboxane A 2 ) have been incriminated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease , because their concentrations increase in the inflammed intestinal mucosa in the acute phase of the disease .
10 Matthew and Luke in their Gospels speak of the Holy Spirit for Christians only in the Mission Charge which anticipates their future role as ambassadors of Christ .
11 Their footsteps echo between the ancient stone buildings .
12 Its movements relate to the four points of the compass , and a great number of movements have to be remembered .
13 The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete .
14 And its aims travel in the same direction , albeit by a slightly different strategic route .
15 The company says the market is tiough … but their figures prove with the right approach houses do sell .
16 Although James Braid is correctly credited with the course design , the Sandwich Professional was also involved for both their names appear on the first year 's accounts published in July 1908 for ‘ laying out , and advising as to links ’ , their respective fees being £15 6s. 6d. and £5 .
17 It seems to me that music television , like sports programming , mainly assumes that its audiences live in the same world and share the same expertise .
18 Their Lordships turn to the first of the orders under appeal , namely the order of Barnett J. refusing to overturn the decision of Judge Cameron not to grant a perpetual stay of the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution .
19 The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint .
20 These bodies insist that their members work to the highest standards set out in the relevant Codes of Practice and strongly recommend that their surveyors are qualified by becoming a Certified Timber Infestation Surveyor ( CTIS ) and Certificated Remedial Damp-proofing Surveyor ( CRDS ) .
21 ( This would be roughly analogous to claiming that the two different posts in an organization are really the same because their occupants report to the same superior . )
22 The soot deposits from its chimneys fall in the residential area in which it is sited , settling on washing , paintwork and parked cars and on the plants in people 's gardens — all of which suffer .
23 Their answers result in the supreme irony of lorry-loads of young men , having scraped together some money from their extended family , travelling for days in the backs of trucks as tight-packed as rush-hour subway trains .
24 Firstly the idea that parasites will cooperate with hosts to the extent that their genes pass to the next generation in the same reproductive cells as the genes of the hosts — squeezing through the same bottleneck .
25 She also ensures that the sales centre and its ARs comply with the Financial Services Act ( FSA ) .
26 Aunt Ruth was occupying the wing chair beside the empty grate , her hands busy with the inevitable piece of knitting .
27 Richer countries had a special responsibility " in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment " .
28 Richer countries had a special responsibility " in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment " .
29 These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred .
30 And he got hi I think their children go to the Catholic School .
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