Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 2 | The water was running at normal winter level with just a tinge of colour . |
| 3 | The floor was hard paving stone , the walls lime-washed , the room devoid of even a stick of furniture . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , a household with an RNR value of 200 per cent has an income equal to twice the amount of benefit that it would be entitled to under the regulations of the time . |
| 5 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 6 | SERVICES AND EXPERTISE AVAILABLE FROM OUTSIDE THE LEA |
| 7 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 8 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 9 | It also meant that in 1213 , and again in 1215–17 , the French king was able to take the war to England , a thing unheard of only a generation earlier . |
| 10 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 11 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 12 | That cabal had created the hydra after long research in covert theological laboratories located on the frozen fringe of some barren solar system unclaimed by either the Imperium or by aliens . |
| 13 | If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 14 | He was delighted with all we 'd done to make the house habitable in under a week and greatly enjoyed partying with friends . |
| 15 | Not all positions were as healthy as others , for 4,700 feet ( 1,400m ) up Tata-Mailau mountain a Section post was established that needed a fresh 16 men every week , the cold — Tata-Mailau is 9,000 feet ( nearly 3,000 metres ) high — bringing on the malaria latent in almost every man of the Companies . |