Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 2 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 3 | It is likely that our case represents the sporadic type of the disorder , in the absence of any family history . |
| 4 | Her position is that the person who calls on Osiris or Krishna or Buddha with a pure heart receives the Holy Spirit within his own tradition and not by abandoning it for another . |
| 5 | A separate contract involves the early removal of the contents of tar tanks discovered on the site . |
| 6 | The 1st oboe plays the top line in the preceding four bars , and gives place to the 1st clarinet on reaching the aforesaid high F. Note the smooth movement of the horns in the chord-passage , and the introduction of the 2nd clarinet on the low E to complete the harmony at the sixth bar from the end . |
| 7 | This synkinematic , footwall intrusive suite constitutes the northeastern part of South Mountains and includes ( from oldest to youngest ) South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) . |
| 8 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 9 | In fact the Central Statistical Office 's view is that the published deficit overstates the real level by no more than £2bn or £3bn . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most interesting theory states that the physical door-hanging represents the spiritual doorway to the Islamic heaven , which has four gardens at its innermost core . |
| 11 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 12 | David Kane 's witty and incisive play evokes the decadent sensuality of the period . |
| 13 | This mixture of anarchy , looseness-of-link and contingency encourages the discrete offering of management skills which will help the student to cope with the four or five separable outcomes of the legislative changes of the late 1980s . |
| 14 | The left foot represents the left side of the body and the right … well I 'll leave you to work that one out ! |
| 15 | Turning now to the manic alternative to depression , we find that in welfare totalitarianisms periodic alcoholic intoxication constitutes the externalized equivalent of the purely psychic state of intoxication which is produced by internal means in the manic individual . |
| 16 | Coupling the laser to the ICP mass spectrometer offers the exciting prospect of obtaining much greater information on the composition of fluid inclusions . |
| 17 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 18 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 19 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 20 | This technique records the exact points in the sentence which the reader fixates , and the time of each fixation . |
| 21 | Having defined the key term and having cited relevant facts , the author 's final sentence points the accusing finger at liberals : ‘ Dare we say it — it is they , not we , who are prejudiced . ’ |
| 22 | It turns out that a great deal of our conversational interaction involves the repetitious use of structure . |
| 23 | Analysis of the maintenance and reproduction of collectivism is divided over whether the tradition of collectivism encourages the voluntary conformity of individuals , or whether the sanctions on non-conformity are so great that individuals have no alternative . |
| 24 | A proportionate tax distributes these burdens as a ratio of income : each taxpayer contributes the same proportion of income in tax . |
| 25 | The USA trade deficit constitutes the other source of instability within the international monetary system . |
| 26 | Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence . |
| 27 | The Mazda text has the same feel of awkwardness and lack of orientation about it as Halliday 's constructed example . |
| 28 | Further he comments that the male has the greater discretion of reason . |
| 29 | The building contains the national records of Scotland and the Court of the Lyon King of Arms , the only surviving Court of Heraldry . |
| 30 | This orbit intersects the top face of the box B in two points , one of which lies to the left of the stable manifold of the origin and which is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |