Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 2 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 3 | The first half had virtually passed Ferdinand by , but at least the £5 million-rated QPR striker got involved after the break although without much success . |
| 4 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 5 | An international problem for many years , inflation is in part fuelled by governments printing money simply to maintain standards of living — unfortunately this technique has led to the undermining of the future prospects of the very people it was supposed to help . |
| 6 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 7 | Far from receiving a discount the purchaser arriving at the average high street store which a bunch of fivers in most cases pays more for his new washing machine or bicycle because the retailer has factored into the pricing structure the credit card company 's fee ( which can range from one to four per cent ) . |
| 8 | Over a longer period , environmental protection has developed within the EC from an unacknowledged sector of public policy to one of the central components in the strategy for European integration . |
| 9 | The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years . |
| 10 | Work on improving the fire safety of the George IV Bridge Building has continued throughout the year . |
| 11 | Smallholder agriculture has led to the concentration of people being three times that that would support shifting cultivation in some areas . |
| 12 | Two months after Apple Computer Inc released a Catalan version of its System 7 , Microsoft Corp has jumped on the bandwagon and announced Catalan editions of MS-DOS 5.0 , Windows 3.1 , and a spell-checker and dictionary for Word for Windows 2.0 . |
| 13 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp has teamed with the Japan distributor for Informix Software Inc , ASCII Corp , to sell Informix relational database software and the Wingz spreadsheet on its Ultrix and Alpha systems . |
| 14 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp has teamed with the Japan distributor for Informix Software Inc , ASCII Corp , to sell Informix relational database software and the Wingz spreadsheet on its Ultrix and Alpha systems . |
| 15 | IBM Corp has been rumbling uncomfortably about repositories for Unix and Waltham , Massachusetts-based Cortex Corp has leaped into the breach with Version 5.0 of its repository-based application generator CorVision , now available for Unix where the company has hitherto concentrated the product on the Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS market . |
| 16 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 17 | Now the hardware side , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has responded to the waves of criticism by saying that it will make its silicon designs available to some semiconductor fabricators so that they can make , sell and support chips based on those designs worldwide . |
| 18 | Charity fundraising has continued over the years , and many worthy projects have received Kent support . |
| 19 | Much of the increase in coniferous woodland has resulted from the clearance and replanting of coppice , as well as the planting of unforested areas of heathland and downland . |
| 20 | Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live . |
| 21 | Local support has come from the school 's own governors , the Sudbury Common Lands Trust which gave £3,000 and Sudbury Hockey Club , which raised £7,000 towards the total . |
| 22 | and support has come from the hospital doctors ' and NHS consultants ' associations . |
| 23 | Technology has improved our hairstyles , but our hair has suffered in the process . |
| 24 | Where no damage has arisen to the Buildings or Contents , the cost of removing or making a safe a tree is not covered . |
| 25 | Damage has extended into the dykes which run between the grazing marshes . |
| 26 | But the demonstration that high levels of p53 are induced by DNA damage has led to the concept that p53 might be part of a damage-control pathway rather than the pathways that are at work in normal development . |
| 27 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 28 | Compton has also concluded that decentralization has continued despite the energy crisis , the south is still gaining population at the expense of the north ; East Anglia , the South West and the East Midlands continue to be the fastest growing regions ; and that Wales is about to join them . |
| 29 | Now the fight has shifted to the mode of procedure . |
| 30 | If the marital rape exemption had been abolished in England and the decision to prosecute left to the police , there is no reason to think that their approach to marital rape cases would have been anything other than cautious . |