Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also there 's been no announcement so far on the Hawk Trainer which involves most of the four and a half thousand at as many more in British Aerospace and other companies . |
| 2 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 3 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 4 | The survival value of this act lies not with the individual but with its hive community . |
| 5 | There are many who argue that the key to hegemonic control in any societal system lies not in the economic nor in the political sphere , but in the realm of culture and ideology . |
| 6 | The cult of self-help , usually visited upon the poor , actually belongs not to the poor but to participants in society , the respectable , self-helping , self-respecting institutions of organised communities and classes . |
| 7 | Under Theory X motivation occurs only at the physiological and security levels of Maslow 's hierarchy . |
| 8 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 9 | This implies that the return flow for velocity fluctuations towards or away from the centre of the wake occurs dominantly in the upstream and downstream directions and little in the transverse ( z and -z ) directions . |
| 10 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 11 | The situation still exists to-day in the 1980s but there is a more flexible and liberal attitude and deaf teachers of the deaf are once more gaining teaching appointments . |
| 12 | Mama Mosambiki deals mainly with the social and cultural relations of men and women in modern Mozambique : it criticizes , for instance , the old traditions that leave a wife with nothing after a divorce and celebrates the resilience of women in the face of men 's negative attitudes . |
| 13 | Mama Mosambiki deals mainly with the social and cultural relations of men and women in modern Mozambique : it criticizes , for instance , the old traditions that leave a wife with nothing after a divorce and celebrates the resilience of women in the face of men 's negative attitudes . |
| 14 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 15 | The rest of the Freeman disc tends equally towards the sombre and undemonstrative in both performance and recording , but this is frequently , let it be said , no bad things and suits much of the music . |
| 16 | Nowadays , Saint-Jean deals chiefly in the large if unappetizing tuna and the extremely appetizing but , compared with the whale , somewhat trivial catch , of anchovies ; but it is a town that smells very satisfactorily of brine and can be loud with the engines of trawlers if you go down to the harbour at the right moment . |
| 17 | Later she shows how between the eighth and eleventh centuries , Byzantine silk weavers gradually absorbed Islamic weaving methods , colour combinations and motifs . |
| 18 | At this stage expression turns both to the outside or ‘ front ’ of the house as well as the internal setting . |
| 19 | A progressively tax and transfer system takes most from the rich and give most to the poor . |
| 20 | Her curry love affair stretches back to the mid-Seventies when she worked as a volunteer in a children and old people 's home . |
| 21 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 22 | One type of query refers solely to the absolute or relative locational properties of the spatial entities . |
| 23 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 24 | The first certain name , however , goes back to the 1920s or even earlier — Miss Florrie Forsythe , of Seagoe . |
| 25 | It goes back to the fifties when the local authority , in this case the Worthing Rural District Council would not approve the plan for a small development A Twenty Seven in near the roundabout at Manor . |
| 26 | Arrange the tomatoes and melon wedges decoratively on the couscous and accompany with a lemon wedge . |
| 27 | It must be emphasized that the goal of transferability applies equally to the practical and the theoretical , to skills and to knowledge , to arts and to science , and it should be the overriding aim of school education . |
| 28 | As we suggested , this applies even to the largest and most prestigious search firms . |
| 29 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 30 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |