Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns out that all neurons of the primary visual cortex respond best to oriented bars or edges , though they still vary greatly among themselves as to the position their receptive field occupies in the visual field , as to the direction of preferred orientation , velocity of motion , size of bar and its polarity ( dark or light ) , and in other ways . |
| 2 | Puzzle Wood is an area which has remained unaltered since it was transformed into tranquil woodland walks in the 1800's . |
| 3 | Germany 's high-technology/ electronics exports in the early 1970s exceeded those of France and Britain combined . |
| 4 | As the volume of private building increases over the two or three years following the proposed changes of policy , local authority housing must as soon as possible be restricted to these objects . |
| 5 | A fluid will now form inside the containing membrane , forcing the cells outward towards its surface so that , in effect , a cellular shell develops around the fluid-filled cavity . |
| 6 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 7 | It is vital that these needs and emotions should be acknowledged and that the solicitor should accept that professional responsibility stretches beyond the immediate legal issues of the claim , and includes a duty to proceed in a way that is comprehensible to the client and consistent with their wider needs . |
| 8 | At the heart of the development a new glazed roof stands over the two-level shopping area . |
| 9 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 10 | The homogeneity of this monumental Norman workmanship contrasts with the crude , over-decorated Baroque pulpit , altar and other , later decoration . |
| 11 | Thus the national economic programme departs from the political ; national independence does not include economic independence . |
| 12 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |
| 13 | At its highest point , a turn to the right up a pathless incline leads to the subsidiary height of pike which has two cairns ; from here the route , still pathless , heads due south , passing the three Whernside Tarns and rises to join a wall coming up from the left , this being kept alongside to the summit . |
| 14 | A contrast will be made between the conclusions of the public pollsters , who suggest an unqualified support exists for the British monarchy today , and a rhetorical analysis , which suggests a more complex reaction between explicit and implicit features . |
| 15 | Do you think that the social function comes before the formal function , or do you think they both go together ? |
| 16 | Do you think that the social function comes before the formal function , or do you think they both go together ? |
| 17 | But it is not clear whether this loss of privately-owned woodland applies to the whole county . |
| 18 | The maximum inward component of the velocity of light is c throughout , while the maximum outward component varies with the radial distance . |
| 19 | He suggests that the functions of speech can be to focus on any of the six basic components of the communicational event : thus the referential function focuses on the referential content of the message , the emotive function on the speaker 's state , the conative function on the speaker 's wishes that the addressee do or think such-and-such , the metalinguistic function on the code being used , the phatic function on the channel ( establishment and maintainance of contact ) , and the Poetic function on the way in which the message is encoded . |
| 20 | As a teen-ager , he took daily subway trips to the Metropolitan Museum to study the painted portraits that so greatly influenced his photographic style . |
| 21 | It is brought out clearly , and even contrasted with the Hebrew view , in the Epistle to the Hebrews , 9 : 25–6 : ‘ Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world ; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . ’ |
| 22 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 23 | " To know " in the Old Testament goes beyond the mere possession of information , to the active enjoyment of fellowship with the person known . |
| 24 | We propose that a transformed cell develops in the proliferative compartment of the lower part of the crypt , divides several times , and moves upwards with migration of the normal crypt epithelium . |
| 25 | The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the following gloss : ‘ a meaningless or even misleading phrase in English ’ . |
| 26 | Theoretical practice falls within the general definition of practice . |
| 27 | My contention that the functioning of the courts was a consequence of the implementation of specific judicial policies in a unique cultural and social setting points to the historical approach of the book . |
| 28 | Only an understanding that recognizes that an irresolvable tension works within the historical schema itself will be in a position to make its contradictory claims productive . |
| 29 | An extended programme takes in the British Professional Road Race Championship on Sunday , June 27 , over 115 miles . |
| 30 | Like the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , the hon. Lady leads for the Labour party in a weak suit . |