Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measurement of the relative abundance of carbon-14 in both pre- and post-bomb soil samples and in the atmosphere gives us an estimate of the amount of carbon entering the soil each year as a result of photosynthesis by both higher plants and microorganisms . |
| 2 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 3 | Lymphocytes that enter the site could achieve this by competing with the invader , thereby lowering the level of nutrients and raising the level of the products of metabolism locally , for example making the environment more acid . |
| 4 | The result , however , would be the same : the strength of the principle of interpretation , in effect denying the statute any application at all , would reflect the scale of the affront to the moral and political values we accept as fundamental … |
| 5 | There is no conflict here because the investigating activity of the AIB inspectors will proceed in the same way in either case ; but instead of the inspector in charge producing the report all the factual information is passed to the Attorney General who will present the case at the Public Inquiry . |
| 6 | On Nov. 28 the FIS 's consultative council announced that it had postponed a decision on participation in the election " in order to give the regime another opportunity to spell out its intention to clear the political atmosphere " . |
| 7 | We have also included the observations of a leading pub designer in order to give the report more breadth . |
| 8 | And no doubt a sensible formula would have been devised in order to tell the jury that which was in the circumstances agreed to be appropriate . |
| 9 | It means helping counsellees to look closely at their attitudes and beliefs , about themselves , about other people , and about life generally as an ageing person , in order to determine the effect these have on their lives , and upon the people close to them . |
| 10 | But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate . |
| 11 | Stories on video tap the interest most of us have in the lives and predicaments of other human beings and can be used to spark off discussion in the classroom . |
| 12 | He wondered then , if the others who had remained on Earth experienced the void this way . |