Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 2 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 3 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 4 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 5 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 6 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 7 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 8 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 9 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 10 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 11 | They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe . |
| 12 | Like the implicit analogy between the Nixon pardon and a cleaning product , the comparison between denazification and the action of washing powder points to the arbitrary nature of the performative act and questions the authority on which it is based . |
| 13 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 14 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 15 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 16 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 17 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 18 | She watched her bare toe rub against the whitened concrete of the balcony . |
| 19 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 20 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 21 | Differentiation refers to the different relationships , departments and goals that exist within an organisation and integration is the degree of co-ordination and co-operation between different departments with inter-departmental tasks . |
| 22 | Differentiation refers to the positivist assumption that there is something ( preferably measurably ) different about criminals ; they may be seen as differing from non-criminals in terms of their biological or psychological make-up , or in terms of their values , again according to the academic origins of the criminologist concerned . |
| 23 | In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions . |
| 24 | Indeed , one of the reasons for the rapid absorption of the rational expectations hypothesis into new classical circles was that the underlying model of neoclassical economics in general and new classical macroeconomics in particular was the belief that this hypothesis conformed with the distinguishing feature of neoclassical theory , that of profit and utility maximization . |
| 25 | The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity . |
| 26 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 27 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 28 | However , just before it died , there was what looked like a length of white cotton thread hanging from the anal vent . |
| 29 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 30 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |