Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 3 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 4 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 5 | The 14 night Sovereign Wildlife Safari drives far across the Kenyan plains , visiting the huge game reserves at Samburu and Maasai Mara . |
| 6 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 7 | The Mandera refugee camp sits just inside the Kenyan border with Somalia . |
| 8 | If the disk is preserved A. abyssorum differs further in the naked ventral interradial area and in the coarser scaling of the disk . |
| 9 | Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use . |
| 10 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 11 | because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together |
| 12 | The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced . |
| 13 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 14 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 15 | a passenger seat with a ‘ relax ’ setting in which the cushion reclines along with the backrest to provide optimum comfort |
| 16 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 17 | I think of the three forms — poems , novels , short stories — and the short story stands mid-way between the other two . |
| 18 | We see the new concern as arising in an era of restraint , but see that the case for value for money stands apart from the political stance taken — whether it is for or against cuts in local government expenditure . |
| 19 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |
| 20 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 21 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 22 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 23 | RELATIONS off the park between Rangers and their European Championship League rivals , Marseille , have deteriorated amid reports from Ibrox that the French side reneged on an agreement over tickets for the tie on 7 April that will decide which club goes forward to the European Cup final . |
| 24 | HEALTHY EATING STARTS HERE WITH THE ORIGINAL HACKMAN UNIPOT |
| 25 | I suspect that the European defence force owes more to the French belief that , by merging German and French forces together , it effectively removes the threat of German militarism , while resurrecting the long-held French ambition to remove the immediate American influence from European defence , which is the case with NATO . |
| 26 | According to Mr Lamont , if there is gloom about the British economy the fault lies entirely with the British people . |
| 27 | One large wing chair in an attractive pale pink fabric blends perfectly with the dual colour scheme . |
| 28 | Your half-brother lies deep inside the Dark Realm and , unless he is rescued , you are Tara 's heir . |
| 29 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 30 | ‘ This is to ignore the fact that in the administration of justice in this country , the authority of any judicial pronouncement depends not upon the personal authority of the judge concerned , but upon the capacity in which he gives a decision or expresses an opinion . |