Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 2 | One version is shaped with grooves just inside the lips , into which plasterboard fits neatly to complete the arch shape . |
| 3 | In other words the last male to mate usually has the best chance of fertilising the eggs . |
| 4 | A new accounting technique has almost trebled the 1991 profits to £620m . |
| 5 | Agriculture has also provided the expanding industrial and tertiary sectors with their labour force . |
| 6 | Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image . |
| 7 | Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 9 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 10 | Science Applications International Corp has finally introduced the ruggedised version of RDI Computer Corp 's BriteLite portable Sparc workstation , which was planned more than a year ago ( UX 339 ) . |
| 11 | The £87m cross-harbour link has already passed the half way stage and is well on schedule for completion in November next year . |
| 12 | Brine shrimp sinking stick has also gained the five star fishy version of Egon Ronay approval . |
| 13 | Parliament has thus recognised the unsatisfactory results of the common law privilege against self-incrimination and has been willing to abrogate or modify that privilege . |
| 14 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
| 15 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
| 16 | Consumption will rise in period t+4 : But investment will start to fall because , according to the accelerator , the level of investment depends on the change in income ( which has now begun to decrease ) : So , after rising from periods t to t + 3 , income has now stayed the same from period t + 3 to t + 4 . |
| 17 | Since then 37-year-old travel agent has steadily climbed the greasy pole towards the job he has coveted most — that of England coach . |
| 18 | The nuclear programme has also mobilised the technical , human , and industrial capacities of an important sector of the economy . |
| 19 | Anthropology has always provided the clearest symptomatic instance , as was foreseen by Rousseau from the outset . |
| 20 | A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law , University of London , may have been near the mark when he wrote , ‘ In both capitalist and communist societies , the judiciary has naturally served the prevailing political and economic forces . |
| 21 | ‘ The Churchyard of Grasmere … is interesting … some charitable stranger has lately added the mournful yew , a tree sacred to such situations . ’ |
| 22 | Daltrey has always seemed the keenest to reform The Who for live shows ( they split up officially in 1983 ) , and he has finally got his way : these British dates follow an American tour . |
| 23 | New historical practice has yet to develop the critical accountability it should possess , yet its efforts in confronting the questions of our access to history need to be encouraged . |
| 24 | His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners . |
| 25 | Writtle College has also signposted the three-quarter mile circular trail route , built stiles and bridged a large ditch . |
| 26 | Research has markedly redressed the unfounded and ill-wishing treatment of it dished out by the zealots seeking to bring about the hardened approach to poverty eventually enacted in the harsh workhouse-based act of 1834 . |
| 27 | The overall picture of usage with bid tends therefore to confirm the general view of the infinitive proposed here . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the typical penalties for those individuals and organisations who are found guilty of corporate crime do little to deter the would-be criminal . |
| 29 | Neither side had publicly acknowledged the reported existence of a secret UN document proposing a post-ceasefire division of the country into two zones , one guerrilla-controlled and the other army-controlled . |
| 30 | The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) . |