Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless there is considerable evidence that the immune system interacts with both the nervous system and the hormones . |
| 2 | It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time . |
| 3 | Hong Kong , Hong Kong , Beats the Chinese Heart , a Viewpoint touring exhibition by Simon Buckley shows the mix of traditional and modern lifestyles in Hong Kong and looks at how the Chinese community has attempted to recreate the atmosphere of Hong Kong in Manchester ( until 2 Mar ) . |
| 4 | This company is owned by a consortium in which Guinness has by far the largest share ( 70 per cent ) . |
| 5 | The UK , on the other hand , fears that any new arrangement may be a burden on trade ; it has by far the largest share of the Community art market and a liberal export system . |
| 6 | It has by far the largest number of students of any university in the United Kingdom , with approximately 72,000 undergraduate students in 1990 , almost all studying part-time , plus over 3000 postgraduate students and an estimated 200,000 students taking short continuing education courses . |
| 7 | Fulke Walwyn , who kept on winning it , has by far the best record but he does not have a runner this year . |
| 8 | The Nimbus 6 and 7 weather satellites first carried the improved radiation detectors ( radiometers ) , but the solar Maximum Mission ( SMM ) satellite , designed to study sunspots at their most active , has by far the best radiometer ever launched . |
| 9 | That ‘ control ’ was not wisely used : of the 13 countries that The Economist follows each week in our statistical back pages , Sweden has by far the highest inflation , 10.9% . |
| 10 | The group classified as inadequately described has an exceptionally good record , but the unoccupied group has by far the worst mortality record of any social group . |
| 11 | The most striking feature is that the agriculture sector has by far the biggest proportion of workers over 55 years old . |
| 12 | It is clear that the founding treaties , and in particular the EEC Treaty which has by far the broadest scope of the three , have established the Communities and the institutions which enable them to operate ; but more than this , they have been held by the European Court to have set up a new legal system separate from those of the Member States . |
| 13 | Statistics for average turn-length alone are liable to mislead , however , and what is likely to be more immediately conspicuous to the reader , is that in a number of scenes Anderson has by far the longest turn : in both scene one and three , for example , Anderson produces turns of over 100 words . |
| 14 | But the association of menstrual blood pollutes her and she loses for ever the pristine purity of a female child . |
| 15 | depends on where the head office is does n't it ? |
| 16 | It depends on when the Spanish government would like to acquire the permanency of the collection . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose it has its difficulties and its advan-tages , it just depends on how the individual child takes it . |
| 18 | Since the event is attached to frame , it always occurs at exactly the same point in the movie , so sound effects are very accurately synchronised to the pictures they should accompany . |
| 19 | the system is set up so that the engine for each car arrives at just the right moment . ’ |
| 20 | Rotterdam handles by far the largest proportion of that . |
| 21 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 22 | This is the sight which stays with even the casual observer . |
| 23 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 24 | But an army marches on its boots and relies on much the same footwear as the soldiers of the past . |
| 25 | ‘ By an astonishing coincidence in the examiners ’ model solution precisely the same piece of goobledegook appears at precisely the same point . ’ |
| 26 | Yet once we accept this , it is also evident that the notion of ‘ level of development ’ goes beyond simply the numerical extent of employment and unemployment . |
| 27 | Er this report refers to just the new road terms within the appropriate switch of transportation strategy , which as you know represent other proposals relate to certain facilities and off street parking , bus priority and major park |
| 28 | Lyotard points to exactly the same structure in Marx , who could likewise never complete Capital . |
| 29 | If modernization means the differentiation of fields , postmodernization means at least the partial collapse of some fields into other fields . |
| 30 | Britain attracts by far the biggest share of Japanese and American investment in Europe . |