Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
| 2 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 3 | Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes . |
| 4 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
| 5 | The socialists had concentrated — in their aim for a better world — on the contradiction points between the social relations of production and the productive forces and ignored those between human production and the natural world . |
| 6 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
| 7 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 8 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 9 | This lies between the mean densities of Venus and the Earth , but because of Mercury 's low gravity the uncompressed density is not much less that 5430 kg/m 3 , whereas the uncompressed densities of Venus and the Earth are considerably less than the planetary values . |
| 10 | The frons is the unpaired upper facial part of the head which often lies between the lateral arms of the ecdysial cleavage line when this is present . |
| 11 | Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 . |
| 12 | It is a completely random distribution , within limits , about a mean which sounds and looks like the snow-like flurries on television screens when there is no input . |
| 13 | What lies behind the different views of the books is , of course , social and economic changes . |
| 14 | Fifty miles downstream the mouth of the Virgin River , where Powell ended his first expedition , now lies under the stagnant waters of Lake Mead , the reservoir backed up behind Hoover Dam . |
| 15 | The answer lies with the drunken roues of the 17th Century . |
| 16 | Wissenland lies along the upper regions of the Reik and river Sol , and incorporates the former territory of Solland . |
| 17 | ( 3.3 ) unc Thee will be several laws later on which show how assignment interacts with the various constructs of the language . |
| 18 | On Sunday play starts with the mixed doubles at 9am with the men 's open singles starting at 10am . |
| 19 | The book starts with the basic processes of affiliation and interaction , differentiating newly ‘ created ’ groups from those which already exist . |
| 20 | He starts with the pioneering days at Brooklands and has taken care not to omit the Donington grands prix in 1937-38 where Germany 's Auto Unions and Mercedes were so dominant . |
| 21 | The area between the top and bottom lines roughly corresponds with the average gaps between couples ' earnings which we can observe in totally independent data like the Family Expenditure Survey discussed above . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well the answer lies in the twelve hours of negotiation that took place yesterday . |
| 25 | The clinical importance of NSAID enteropathy lies in the associated complications of blood loss , protein loss , and occasional strictures that may require surgery . |
| 26 | The answer lies in the time-honoured methods of withdrawal , abstinence , non-penetrative sex , douches and abortion , plus a whole plethora of folk methods — herbal potions , amulets , spells — of unknown efficacy . |
| 27 | I suspect the answer lies in the demographic changes of the 1980s , which showed a substantial and unexpected in-migration to Scotland , on the same scale and pattern as the ‘ incomers ’ to Wales who were selling off expensive property in south east England and settling down on the proceeds . |
| 28 | At first glance the obvious explanation for Russian working-class militancy lies in the appalling conditions in which the workers lived and worked . |
| 29 | It lies in the western shadows of Thunder Mountain , and was discovered by the Dwarfs who mined into it creating a labyrinth of tunnels , caverns and partially complete workings . |
| 30 | The main disadvantage of the method lies in the long periods of time required to reach equilibrium . |