Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 2 | ENGLAND will be setting off to India after Christmas to face the mystical eastern spinners with the help of a magic carpet . |
| 3 | AGENDA for Peace estimates the current annual cost of UN peace-keeping at nearly $3 billion . |
| 4 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 5 | Accusations of racism dogged the conservative General Election campaign in Cheltenham from start to finish . |
| 6 | Differences in time and type of fixation affect the intracellular staining pattern — that is , the strength of the staining and therefore the number of labelled cells . |
| 7 | The use of installation denies the individual sculptural attention on which her pieces used to depend . |
| 8 | Once a well-fitting function has been obtained one can of course use the usual mathematical techniques to derive other indicators such rates of change , means or smoothed curves which suppress small deviations and show a trend . |
| 9 | So out of sight and out of mind go the innocent wooden box and its equally innocent contents . |
| 10 | The bulk of the wood used in the six is still maple , although the ET range utilises a five-piece neck laminate , with two pieces of bubinga flanking the thin central section of maple . |
| 11 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 12 | However , studies suggest that a major source of enterprise autonomy is the ability of management to manipulate the conflicting political pressures on it and to negotiate successfully with the fragmented political authorities in the central state administration ( see , e.g. , Hannah 1982 : ch. 5 ; Feigenbaum 1985 ) . |
| 13 | The alternative route of return descends the rough western slope aiming for the top of the Kingsdale — Deepdale road , which soon comes into view , and there turns right . |
| 14 | This body of work viewed the local political sphere , and those who operated within it , as autonomous — both from local social and political pressure and from wider constraints imposed from outside agencies and institutions . |
| 15 | Distinctive features of ‘ The Land of the Roe ’ include the 24 maps specially drawn by the author for this publication ; the use of primary data from the 1831 Census of Population to complement the detailed social and economic history derived from the Ordnance Memoirs of Ireland 1831–35 ; and the inclusion in the Appendix of all of the original and processed data on which the population maps are based . |
| 16 | They were connected in their respective negations in their respective negations by the activities of the Situationist International , founded in 1957 upon a premise of refusal to enter the conventional cultural space and to combat the burgeoning ‘ society of the spectacle ’ with behaviour which had no place in the museum or the gallery — let alone the sale-room . |
| 17 | In the case of an off-market transaction it may be of importance to determine the precise legal position of the transferor and transferee pending registration of the transfer which , if there are restrictions on transferability may never occur . |
| 18 | William Shirer , whose CBS broadcasts went out from the Rundfunkhaus , noted in his diary that Goebbels 's Ministry of Propaganda thought the drawling nasal voice ‘ wholly unfit for broadcasting ’ . |
| 19 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 20 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 21 | As a result of student protests the Supreme Soviet Presidium agreed in April to cut military service for those in higher education from two years to one ( which could be served after graduation ) . |
| 22 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 23 | Anarchists urged acts of terror to destabilize the established social order , and together with some socialists rejected further industrialization and all forms of property . |
| 24 | The second Book of Flesh contains the Elemental Magic spells Hand of Fire , Zone of Hiding , Move Object , Wither Vegetation , Breathe Fire and Animate Water . |
| 25 | The burdens of reconstruction made the late 1940s and 1950s particularly inappropriate for a policy of grandeur , whereas by 1958 , when de Gaulle returned to power , France was in a much better position to afford Gaullist ambition . |
| 26 | From the viewpoint of drive costs the conventional hybrid motor has a severe disadvantage and therefore many manufacturers have introduced " bifilar-wound " hybrid motors , which can be operated with a unipolar drive . |
| 27 | The top 50–100 m of ocean forms the polar mixed layer , a layer diluted by fresh water ( mostly from rivers ; see below ) to salinity of about 32 parts per thousand ( ppt ) . |
| 28 | Studies with an animal model of colitis confirmed the decreased segmenting contractile activity and showed increased giant migrating complexes , which were often associated with defaecation . |
| 29 | Giving a brilliant object lesson in the art of applying intense pressure , and with quite as much skill as the masterly early rounding-up in the UN , the secretary of state gathered the necessary billions . |
| 30 | With the abolition of rates , ownership and use of property became the main economic activity that was not taxed , unless it was the income of private landlords . |