Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 2 | The best way to reduce the amount of rubbish that goes into the domestic bin is not to persuade people to sort out unwanted recyclables . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 4 | The reality is that the number of single-person households in a particular district is part of the profile that is drawn in order to establish the standard spending assessment , and therefore the grant that goes to the local authority . |
| 5 | We should encourage a growing body of Community practice that builds upon the excellent subsidiarity article 3b in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 6 | Whether anyone 's willing to be receptive to a music that is not as seriously , purgatively ‘ innovative ’ as the post-punk noise that veers towards the Rough Trade arena , not quite as vulnerably half-original as the music of this year 's Gig Of The Century bill ( Ratio , Teardrop , Echo ) . |
| 7 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 8 | Other accessories are the intarsia carriage ( AG20 ) for picture knitting ; the transfer carriage ( RT1 ) for transferring stitches from the ribber to the main bed and the Automatic Linker ( SC3 ) — this is not a large piece of equipment , but a small carriage that fits on the main bed . |
| 9 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |
| 10 | In these analyses , I have clearly stressed the affiliative , dependent , nurturant , accommodative , non-competitive aspects of Semai society , culture , and character over other aspects , because these seemed particularly relevant as factors in the complex psycho-cultural dynamic that contributes to the Semai abhorrence of overt conflict and violence . |
| 11 | The initial loss of this response produced by presenting the stimulus repeatedly alone will occur both because of habituation and because of a decline in the value of α , each of these changes influencing one of the reflexes that contributes to the observed behaviour . |
| 12 | It is the withdrawal of this assurance that contributes to the widespread dissatisfaction with home life in a tower block . |
| 13 | The simplest way is to freeze into the matrix a precursor that decomposes to the desired fragment when irradiated with light . |
| 14 | Since we must have some way of linking each component to the next one in the structure , each component must contain a link or pointer that points to the next component in the structure . |
| 15 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |
| 16 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 17 | We have recently cloned cDNA encoding the large subunit of TFIIF that interacts with the small subunit in vivo and shown that bacterially expressed proteins of both could replace the transcription initiation activity of native TFIIF ( 20 ) . |
| 18 | The side chains of CyP residues Trp121 , Phe60 , Ile57 , Leu122 , Phe113 , His126 , Ala101 , Ala103 and Thr73 form a hydrophobic pocket that interacts with the hydrophobic surface of CsA residues 9–11 and 1–3 ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 19 | This is a large species of eagle owl , hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti . |
| 20 | A company seeking to raise funds through a bond issue , for example , will pay a coupon rate ( a rate stated on the bond ) that corresponds to the current market rate . |
| 21 | It shall be characterized in particular by a system of labour law that corresponds to the social market economy and a comprehensive system of social security based on merit and social justice . |
| 22 | In other words , there is no packaging device in English that corresponds to the Chinese topic device , and hence no fully adequate translation . |
| 23 | A count is kept of the element in this array that corresponds to the latest word position . |
| 24 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |
| 25 | Adam Sedgwick , whose life is commemorated in a fine book by Colin Speakman and in a memorial fountain of Shap granite that stands in the main street , is Dent 's most famous son . |
| 26 | His species propagation theorizing itself was accordingly constructed , from the very opening of Notebook B , as an argument that starts with the sexual generation of one individual organism from another and ends with the propagation of one species from another . |
| 27 | ‘ Sumner will strengthen our team for a season that starts against the Danish touring side on March 26 . ’ |
| 28 | There is a web of exhilarating approaches — from Ribblehead ; Crummackdale ; Ingleton via Crina Bottom House and Hill Inn in Chapel-le-Dale ; but a particular favourite is a circular route that starts from the charming hamlet of Clapham and visits the most fascinating parts of the area . |
| 29 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 30 | It is this conundrum that lies at the very heart of the Section 28 debate — not to mention Labour 's problems with it . |