Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure . |
| 2 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 3 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 4 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 5 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 6 | Often only broken fragments of these inlays survive , and nothing of the item of furniture to which they were attached , so it is difficult to visualize the original effect or even the extent of the shell decoration . |
| 7 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 8 | By early 1937 Waismann completed Logik , Sprache , Philosophie , but the Anschluss and later the invasion of Holland frustrated his plans for publishing the German text . |
| 9 | Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization . |
| 10 | The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected . |
| 11 | Such research could both identify effective strategies for the training of history teachers in the light of our understanding of the nature and development of pupils ' historical thinking and further the debate on the relationship between teaching styles and pupils ' conceptual hierarchies in history . |
| 12 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 13 | For some authors perspective provides both the laws of perception and also the key to the true and rational representation of objects . |
| 14 | As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) . |
| 15 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 16 | Anyway , her cancer as such was not actively discussed , so only her loss and not the cause of her loss was ever aired . |
| 17 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 18 | Just the opposition and maybe the system of play ( Wilko 's orders ) . |
| 19 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 20 | Now that 's a modern version , again I made that for a couple of years ago but the tradition there was you knitted on hands and you ladies will probably know , four pins , no seams , all on the circular , right up to the neck and then the cast on the sleeve there and again , no seams . |
| 21 | Moreover , in both cases the labelling of the decanted medication was inadequate for those treating the children to be sure of the concentration and therefore the dose of drug ingested . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll never forget , playing sick to get out of my cell and then the waiting for the bread van to come and pick me up . |
| 23 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 24 | The divergence and even the incompatibility of purposes between France and the US had certainly occurred to various officers of the State Department and prompted sarcastic comment . |
| 25 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 specifically excluded all women from the local borough franchise , but single women continued to enjoy the vote and even the right to be elected in many parishes and important local bodies , such as the Poor Law Guardians , associated with them ( Hollis 1987 ) . |
| 26 | We are now trying to affirm citizenship through the vote and therefore the nature in which we distribute these seats and the affirmation that we give through the vote will not relate in fact to any of the sentiments I believe as pronounced by the opposition front bench . |
| 27 | Not only did the names change at the Palaeozoic/Mesozoic boundary , but also the classification , the methods of study and even the terminology of the anatomical parts . |
| 28 | In these circumstances investors are continuing to cast an eye over convertibles — the yield can be considerably higher than on the underlying equity and yet the premium on the conversion price need not be too large . |
| 29 | Similarly , of course , any change in the school-leaving age or the retirement age will also affect the size of the potential labour force and therefore the supply of labour . |
| 30 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |