Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 2 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 3 | But the titles , size of teams and functions of inspectors vary among the local authorities . |
| 4 | It 's billed as a dog agility extravaganza , as hundreds of pets compete across the Three Counties showground in Malvern.Over the next six days the dogs will be leaping over hurdles , jumping through hoops , and careering through tunnels . |
| 5 | About two thirds of infections occur in the first five days and more than half of these are apparent at birth . |
| 6 | Not infrequently , of course , the two attitudes or sets of circumstances exist in the same family . |
| 7 | In Europe a number of countries participate in the European Monetary System which attempts to stabilise exchange rates and thereby facilitate trade and investment flows between trading partners . |
| 8 | The skill of swapping fuel in mid-air is a delicate operation and scores of pilots depend on the flying tankers from Brize . |
| 9 | There is no way we can decipher properly the individual contributions that different pairs of atoms make to the total atomic distribution . |
| 10 | The properties of individuals emerge from the many aspects of the complex whole . |
| 11 | As the vast majority of applications occur in the same peak period , should not people try to spread them so that there is not the same concentration ? |
| 12 | The second major set of structures start from the late Palaeozoic ( though may also be much older ) and relate to the collisions and less obvious splitting along the line of the Mediterranean/Tethys . |
| 13 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 14 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 15 | Those held responsible for this general state of affairs range from the big ‘ companies ’ to the local administration . |
| 16 | From the gauzy film of ginger hair which covers his scalp but fails to conceal it , to his gleaming Doc Martens , Harry is designed to make anyone who has even the smallest stake in the present scheme of things cross to the other side of the street . |
| 17 | If both NL and LD , or if both EX and CS , are switched on ; only NL and EX respectively will show on the screen : both pairs of codes appear in the same places and NL and EX take priority if both are on . |
| 18 | You 'll see that the majority of patients fall into the low risk group with progressively smaller numbers in the intermediate and high risk group . |
| 19 | The aim of the research project is to provide a detailed examination of the geographical structure of arms transfer to the Third World for the period 1970-1980 . |
| 20 | The levels of exports and imports between the two countries would return to their original positions , as would the balance of payments position between the two countries . |
| 21 | Infected male flies are almost always found to carry S. baeri on their ventral surfaces , while the heaviest infections of females occur on the dorsal surface . |
| 22 | Religion : Christianity ( about 30% of whites belong to the Dutch Reformed Church , about 20% of African Christians belong to African Independent Churches , others belong to Methodist and Anglican Churches ) ; Hindu and Moslem minorities . |
| 23 | The other two examples of regionarii come from the auxiliary fort at Ribchester , where both Aelius Antonius and T. Floridius Natalis combined the post with that of praepositus numeri or fort commander . |
| 24 | A key consideration for the development of a spatial language interface to GlS is that many different groups of users exist within the spatial data-handling community . |
| 25 | In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce . |
| 26 | Once they are pressed , the majority of flowers belong to the middle range of tones because of the colour changes that frequently take place during pressing . |
| 27 | The traditional homes of landowners vary from the simple ( though even these have the Bohemian chandeliers ) to the near palatial . |
| 28 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 29 | A police spokesperson declared on Jan. 10 that allegations of police support for the so-called vigilantes was a " blatant lie " . |
| 30 | It is thought that a similar mechanism operates in the naturally occurring self-cure when large numbers of larvae mature to the infective stage on pasture after rain . |