Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 2 | In Morgan 's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850 . |
| 3 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 4 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 5 | Taylor has stipulated that third and fourth division clubs have until the end of the decade to become all-seater , while those in the first and second divisions have just two close seasons . |
| 6 | Grammar exercises ( each preceded by examples and statement of rule ) on various verb forms occurring in the passage . |
| 7 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 8 | When the deposit was received , it was an advance part payment received by the business and did not belong to the customer . |
| 9 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 10 | In the centre Hercules and the Ninth Labour are depicted — the taking of the Golden Apples with the guardian snake emerging from the tree and one of the daughters of Hesperos retreating in alarm . |
| 11 | The wide-ranging package includes a 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax from 1995 to help close the budget deficit resulting from the cost of financing the recovery in the east . |
| 12 | The ratio can rise either as a result of an increase in OM or through a fall in P. The only route through which OM can rise is a temporary budget deficit financed by the issue of fiat money . |
| 13 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 14 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 15 | Figure 9.2 shows the variation of the attenuation constant α and phase shift β with the parameter u according to the theory just presented . |
| 16 | An appropriations bill , approving expenditure of $270,000 million in fiscal 1992 to carry out defence programmes planned by the authorization bill , received final congressional approval on Nov. 23 . |
| 17 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 18 | The microworm can be harvested by placing lots of cocktail sticks crisscross across the top of the porridge . |
| 19 | CO molecules adsorbed in the vicinity of this charge will , to a first approximation , have their orbital binding energies rigidly downward-shifted , allowing increased electron transfer from the substrate into the lifetime-broadened CO 2 antibonding orbital . |
| 20 | The the memo I 've got is that the new settlement provision according to the structure plan , relates to the the Greater York area . |
| 21 | Robin Smith from Cheltenham was a computer scientist working for the Government , and a member of the Institution of Professionals , Managers and Specialists , at the GCHQ spy base in the town . |
| 22 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 23 | The muzzle flash illuminated Farrell and the yard around him for several feet as he raked the sub-gun back and forth , spent cartridge cases spewing from the weapon ; smoke and steam rising into the damp air . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs obtained an injunction to restrain the defendants notwithstanding that the product in question ( a swizzle stick embossed with the name of the ship upon which it was to be used ) was available to anyone who happened to take a cruise on that ship . |
| 25 | We tend not to notice this because in TNC the curriculum proposals came before the discussion of testing and assessment . |
| 26 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 27 | This continuous time model finds that the price of index futures depends on the volatility of returns on the index , as well as on the spot price , dividend yield , the risk-free rate of interest and the time to delivery . |
| 28 | The project team used the assessment framework developed by the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) ( see Appendix III ) and the results obtained by the Unit in their mathematics surveys as the starting point for test development in this project . |
| 29 | 1.6 The assessment framework adopted by the Government requires that : ( a ) attainment targets are set for the knowledge , skills , and understanding normally expected at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 ; ( b ) pupils ' performances in relation to attainment targets should be assessed and reported on at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 30 | The link , if proven , could explain the " clusters " of leukaemia cases found in the vicinity of the Sellafield nuclear power plant . |