Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A good hash function will distribute values uniformly throughout a waiting array ( used for access ) called the hash table .
2 To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising .
3 And putting coals on at the far end .
4 They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing .
5 The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion .
6 From the tablet a graphics program is called which allows the operator to insert chosen values on to the displayed graph axis .
7 Let's see if England can win four Triple Crowns in a row and win six Five Nations titles outright in the next decade .
8 It handles all products right through the whole chain from hydrogen cyanide to ‘ Perspex ’ and ‘ Diakon ’ plastics and newer added-value materials such as ‘ Asterite ’ and ‘ Avron ’ .
9 The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved .
10 At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface .
11 His snowdrops were already wilting like wax candles in the warmth of his hand , and as he copied the mourners ahead of him and stood up , one flower slipped between his fingers on to the rust-coloured floor .
12 Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic .
13 Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing .
14 Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it .
15 He opened the door of a big airy room with views down to the great river itself .
16 Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place .
17 But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle .
18 Is the Minister aware that when the Unionist party governed Northern Ireland it concentrated heavily on developing the roads only in the eastern part of Northern Ireland ?
19 And — oh , she also wanted — no , desired — to stroke his smiling face , to run the tips of her fingers gently along the dreadful scar to show that she loved every part of him , to …
20 Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square .
21 The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period .
22 Clifford has now brought a collection of his aphorisms together in a little book entitled ‘ One Hundred Aphorisms ’ .
23 Ten minutes deeper into the beige-carpeted maze brings me to nothing .
24 This can be done by making the new range of computers architecturally similar to earlier models , and by making improvements only in the technological implementation of this architecture ; alternatively we can use microprogrammed emulation , as discussed in 3.6 .
25 He shrugged the shirt off , flung it to the floor , unfastened the waist of the immaculate beige trousers , disposed of the rest of his clothes with a cool composure which sent tiny shivers all over the heated surface of her body .
26 Giving the drugs four times daily in the triple therapy group might have further improved the treatment results .
27 Also , the libraries and record offices contain plans of these houses along with a vast amount of pictures of Edinburgh .
28 I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture .
29 This status window shows the currently selected brush type and its width in pixels together with the selected Ink and Paper colours .
30 The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers .
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