Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In La Route des Flandres , for example , there is ample evidence that many of the fictional sequences emerge as a result of an exploration of the properties of certain words : the inherently fertile nature of language can be shown to have generated the subsequent text , and , through the use of metaphor and metonymy , the associations of both memory and language work together in the production of the text . |
| 2 | A look that could only be jealousy , she registered , made his coal-black eyes glint with a hint of danger . |
| 3 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 4 | Melodic characteristics depend on a composer 's idiom , and in turn are chief elements in the formation of that idiom . |
| 5 | In the present article we describe an analysis of the evolutionary conservation of SSRP1 which reveals that homologous sequences occur in a number of species including Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 6 | It is not clear whether this motivation arises from a pragmatic desire to influence other people in order to achieve common objectives , or whether social interactions act as a catalyst for the child 's intrinsic curiosity about language as a system for communicating with other people . |
| 7 | Just the wee group of us , there 's different groups go at a time |
| 8 | In short , ‘ Inntrepreneur ’ rents , as determined by the market , are a fair reflection of the substantial commercial opportunities open to a lessee who is running a pub as an individual business . . |
| 9 | Other apparent extensions of the Bell-Szekeres solution have been suggested by Gürses and Halilsoy ( 1982 ) in which the approaching electromagnetic waves consist of a sequence of steps . |
| 10 | Peasants , landowners , a nascent bourgeoisie , a relatively small industrial working class , intellectuals whose doctrinal allegiances range from a conservative , traditionalist nationalism to Marxism , government officials , political party leaders , and military officers are all potentially capable of influencing the construction of a new state . |
| 11 | Licensed dealers trade on a scale that is only limited by their own resources . |
| 12 | According to Dow ( 1977 ) wet gases appear in a coalification range between 0.8 and 2.0% Rm ( Rm = mean random vitrinite reflectance ) dry gas deposits appear in the range 1.0–3.0 ( up to 3.5 ) % Rm . |
| 13 | Networked organisations operate as a fluid inter-relationship of different teams . |
| 14 | Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space . |
| 15 | Against such mono-causal explanations , they insisted that major social changes originate from a diversity of influences , including the exercise of political leadership or military force ( Schumpeter ) , culture ( Weber ) , or the psychological characteristics of differently recruited elites ( Pareto ) . |
| 16 | Extended families live in a group of houses ( a compound ) connected by a single outer wall , and surrounded by their farmland . |
| 17 | Forsyth 's work has many virtues : engaging characters and fine performances ; an oblique ( but never a bleak ) vision that lends commonplace events a new-minted freshness ; and a denseness of narrative and mise-en-scène ( in a Forsyth film interesting things happen in a corner of the frame ) . |
| 18 | In looking at any scene , I have learnt to throw it out of focus , and at the same time to blur the mind so that the scene becomes hazy ; then sometimes the sublime images well up in place of the mundane things ; rather the mystical things come from a transformation of the mundane . |
| 19 | Adhesives can be either rubber solution glue or egg white , which was used by the Victorians , and I think it is still the best option as it does not mark the leaves and flowers — commercial glues do after a time . |
| 20 | In fact Sunk Island is a kind of water-logged ‘ phoenix ’ thrown up by the rides of the Humber , resting on the submerged remains of low-lying medieval farmlands overflown by a series of great storms combined with exceptionally high tides that engulfed the area in 1399 , the site of a number of drowned villages . |
| 21 | ECONOMY Minister Robert Atkins has praised the Housing Executive on winning a Royal Institute of British Architects award for a project at Newtownbreda . |
| 22 | In a longer perspective Austro-Russian rivalry in the Balkans had superseded the old Straits question as a detonator of European explosives . |
| 23 | On Saturday EC foreign ministers assemble in a chateau near Chartres for an informal weekend during which they will discuss , among other things , the co-ordination of Community policy towards eastern Europe . |
| 24 | Complicated political formulas work for a while and then fall apart . |
| 25 | Seif dunes are formed when strong winds blow from a quarter other than that from which the prevalent winds , responsible for the general sand drift , arrive . |
| 26 | He had looked directly into her face for the first time and she saw his dark eyes blaze with a mixture of anger and pain . |
| 27 | Once you have opened your Premier Savings account with a minimum of £5000 , you can add any amount to your savings at any time . |
| 28 | In such an approach all individual elements live within a tree structure as shown in Figure 5.2 . |
| 29 | ‘ Black and minority ethnic communities suffer from a services and resources deficit which urgently needs to be addressed ’ . |
| 30 | Conversely , in the second account , there is too much emphasis on individual knowledge and too little emphasis given to the way in which individual abilities vary as a function of the social and physical context . |