Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overhead wires were extended from the South Metropolitan side to just beyond the change point , making a section of dual equipped road , on which through cars would use the overhead wires and cars terminating would remain on the conduit . |
| 2 | Help with breastfeeding style and position or types of teats for bottles can help the feeding pattern develop ( Lewis 1982 ) . |
| 3 | It is envisaged that the totality of activities will extend the existing State of the European Environment report ( CEC 1988 ) through addressing the issues of the quality and sensitivity of the environment and also the pressures upon it . |
| 4 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 5 | Both the use of conflicting notes and that of interval harmony demand freedom in the choice of notes used to control the harmonic flow , and this freedom may be restricted by serialism . |
| 6 | This raising and lowering of anchors will provide the argumentative forms for the debates , whose content may be provided by the contrary themes of the sensus communis . |
| 7 | Repetition of words can create the same sort of chain as pronouns , and there are sometimes good reasons for preferring it . |
| 8 | The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect . |
| 9 | An analysis of the traditional functions of heads might produce the following list : |
| 10 | The reversal of roles can cause the patient anxiety . |
| 11 | The EPA estimate that up to one-third of cars may fail the high-tech test . |
| 12 | Sir : If John Prescott thinks that higher taxes on motor vehicles , lower speed limits , charges for urban road use , cuts in tax perks for company cars , random breath testing , enforcement of parking restrictions , revitalised public transport and a general prejudice in favour of pedestrians , cyclists and public transport at the expense of cars will win the Labour Party votes , he 's darn right . |
| 13 | A consortium , which stepped in to clinch the deal when RTE pulled out , thinks tens of thousands of fans will crowd the selected venues . |
| 14 | ‘ A good team of administrators can provide the logistical support and the efficient administration — the service element , if you like — necessary for the new entrepreneurs . |
| 15 | At the same time , also by means of forebrain action , all kinds of circumstances may impede the former function — inhibition arising from earlier training and experience , considerations of time and place , conscious moral outlooks etc . |
| 16 | First , the banning of imports might land the Labour Government in the future in front of a European court and , secondly of course , if the Labour Government attempted to use their 40 per cent . |
| 17 | Norbert Wiener 's basic view is that the ideas of individuals can trigger the larger processes that lead to innovation by their influence on the ‘ intellectual climate ’ in which science , the arts and technology all develop . |
| 18 | What I find a bit puzzling is that , as far as I can see , automatic inspection of passports will eliminate the keen-eyed , guilt-inducing gaze from the man behind the desk who presumably , is looking for doctored documents , suspicious photographs and forged visas and stamps . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , this is likely to become worse , although judicious use of pain-killers may overcome the worst effects . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , as the outcome if the Eastbourne parliamentary by-election demonstrated , a strong local electoral base developed over a number of years can provide the Liberal Democrats with the opportunity for a sensational , if perhaps transient , victory . |
| 21 | This pattern of epidemics may explain the broad movement of wages in the mid fifteenth century , for the 1440s , 1450s and 1470s , when it is logical to assume that deaths were more likely to have exceeded births , were precisely those decades when wages were highest . |
| 22 | Lone mothers in other studies have described how their greater control of resources can offset the lower incomes they are able to secure for their families ( Evason , 1980 ; Graham , 1987b ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) . |
| 23 | A majority of managers could say the same , so we can put away the handkerchiefs . |
| 24 | For the initial tests trace statements were inserted to obtain the pixel counts for each of the range of exposures used to compute the two bounds . |
| 25 | Jaq doubted that even the most towering of storms could engulf the uppermost reaches of Vasilariov . |
| 26 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 27 | A clear waiver of subrogation rights issued by the insurers is obviously preferred , but it is generally accepted that the noting of interests will have the same effect , although there is no guarantee of this . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that more than a tiny proportion of farms will attain the bureaucratic structure associated with agribusinessmen farmers , but they are regarded suspiciously as possible Trojan horses introducing alien patterns of labour relations into the countryside . |
| 29 | Mini owners from Scotland to the South Coast will make their way to Formby where a mass convoy of motorists will make the two hour drive to a campsite on Friday , June 18 . |
| 30 | Note 2 : The basic resolution of an ADC chip is dependent upon the number of bits used to represent the analogue input . |