Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only native Hawaiian plants and animals that are n't extinct are found on the high mountainsides ( yes , a lot of people live their whole lives in Hawaii without ever coming across a native species ) , and the biggest problem up there is that type of pig that descended from European wild boars and Polynesian pigs . |
| 2 | Some of the companies making this possible are presented in the following pages . |
| 3 | The weak are bullied by the strong , the little by the big , the pious by the irreligious . |
| 4 | Sale opportunities identified by MAS are matched against the recorded criteria on a reactive basis . |
| 5 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 6 | Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants . |
| 7 | The young old are brought within the pale and the rest are left outside ; their needs are perceived as different and marginal to the mainstream development of goods and services . |
| 8 | The nightmare of conductive education is unachievable because nowhere in human history have the different been turned into the normal and neither medical science nor other rehabilitative techniques or educational Interventions can assist in this process . |
| 9 | But eventually the French are reduced to a small band , and Roland realizes that he did wrong to send his faithful followers to death by his proud refusal to blow the oliphant . |
| 10 | According to information just released , only a quarter of the unemployed are supported by a National Insurance benefit , while two thirds are forced to rely on means-tested schemes . |
| 11 | As children they were spoiled — how can a five , seven , eleven year old be blamed for the lifelong influence of having his shoes cleaned , his tea-cup passed across a table , his hair combed , his every want anticipated by the mother he ached for because she was already so worn out and was not , in the end , his mother ? |
| 12 | The English were taught in a different school to the Chinese . |
| 13 | The English were faced by the different physical conditions and social organisation of the countries which they invaded . |
| 14 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 15 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 16 | The nature of both universal and human expression is identical , the universal being mirrored in the human entity . |
| 17 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 18 | All would-be 's stunned by the sudden realisation that they ‘ could be ’ . |
| 19 | Farther north in Europe , the later Carboniferous is marked by a progressive drying out and loss of marine influence . |
| 20 | A tracheostomy was performed and a catheter contained heparinised ( 10 U/ml ) saline was inserted into the right carotid artery for continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure . |
| 21 | The twenty three year old was dragged from a busy street into an alleyway where the assault took place . |
| 22 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 23 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 24 | Birmingham City Council has now set its community charge , the basic amount payable is shown on the enclosed demand note . |
| 25 | That Fassbaender can still produce a warm tone and smooth legato is shown in a lovely account of the unjustly neglected Wiegenlied and in an eloquently shaped account of the elusive , but hauntingly lovely Am Fenster . |
| 26 | To recover more for the domain of the non-sexual is related to a progressive sexual politics . |
| 27 | The case shown in Fig. 6.20 is taken as an example of a very frequently met distribution ( it is probable that the original 80/20 rule-of-thumb is based on a similar curve ) . |
| 28 | Further work would have been necessary if the following was presented as the unnormalised relation : |
| 29 | Eventually , after prolonged discussion , the following was agreed as a working definition : |
| 30 | The preceding was edited from a personal account written in 1945 by the late ATA Commander James McGuinness of his involvement in the two transfers of Spitfires into the Mediterranean . |