Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 2 | Of any change in control of the business , its organization of management , or persons holding shares in the company which causes a change in the control of the company ( by letter ) . |
| 3 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 4 | If the change causes a change in the pattern of borrowing and lending , the interconnected nature of financial flows may involve the monetary sector and then changes in the money supply will occur . |
| 5 | This causes a narrowing of the channel and diminishes the amount of blood that the coronary arteries can carry . |
| 6 | It is most unlikely for an odour per se to cause actual physical damage , but where it causes a diminution in the selling value of the property or injures the plaintiff 's business by , for example , causing potential customers to be lost , this may be regarded as sufficient invasion of the plaintiff 's interest to be tortious . |
| 7 | It causes a clock on the ground to run more slowly than an identical one placed at high altitude . |
| 8 | Suppose that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 causes a fall in the flow of funds to unit trusts and increases the attractiveness of building society deposits . |
| 9 | This new research shows that the loss also causes a decline in the lizard 's ability to dominate other lizards , leading to a loss of territory , feeding and breeding opportunities , thereby reducing its chances of survival . |
| 10 | Exposure of the small intestine to cow 's milk antigens causes a lesion to the gut mucosa and increases its permeability , permitting the entry of antigens through the impaired host barrier . |
| 11 | Unlike billiards , however , rather than a clean ‘ hit or miss ’ , the repulsion of the two positively charged nuclei causes a curvature in the ion 's path even if it passes to the side of the atom . |
| 12 | A tumour or trauma in one side of the brain causes a loss in the field of vision on the other side . |
| 13 | In the normal diagram , a shift of the demand curve causes a movement along the supply curve . |
| 14 | The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is . |
| 15 | The ventral view comprises 2–3 of the 5 jaw angles — about half the disk area ; while the dorsal view covers a wedge from the centre of the disk to the base of the arms . |
| 16 | That strategy incorporates a review of the content of courses of initial teacher training ; the establishment of a committee for the accreditation of courses of teacher education ; an inquiry into the procedures for the external validation of courses in public sector higher education ; an inquiry into selection for teaching ; suggestions for regular staff appraisal of teachers , and the public reporting by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of their findings on visits to schools and colleges . |
| 17 | The trouble with ANDF as he sees it is it recreates a problem of the past by adding an enormous level of inefficiency in its intermediate compiler layer . |
| 18 | You might get the occasional guest who notices a camera in the foyer or speaker in the restaurant but we are nearly into the twenty-first century and high tech equipment does not have to be offensive . |
| 19 | Centring and closing diphthongs are in this group , because the " prominence " of the sound undergoes a diminution as the articulation proceeds . |
| 20 | However , as members of the Channel Tunnel Research Unit and others have pointed out , the longer term dynamic effect may be much greater if the image of Kent as a business location undergoes a transformation as the result of related investment in supportive infrastructure , especially transport . |
| 21 | In all educational practice lies a vision of the future . |
| 22 | In the SE corner lies a ciborium in the form of a Gothic steeple , perhaps even a model of that planned for St Vitus ' . |
| 23 | And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers . |
| 24 | John Brown 's body lies a mouldering in the grave |
| 25 | John Brown 's body lies a mouldering in the grave |
| 26 | On the village green stands a memorial to the poet . |
| 27 | And at the point where the placed horses enter the paddock to unsaddle after the race stands a bronze of the mare Dawn Run , with jockey Jonjo O'Neill patting her neck . |
| 28 | The way he interprets it owes a lot to the work of the late Ivon Hitchens , who used a similar technique , with broad swirls and patches of paint , and little attention to details . |
| 29 | The club 's success owes a lot to the chess tradition of Queen Mary School , Walsall , which has supplied three of their first team . |
| 30 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |