Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 2 | Why do authorities make the little things in life so difficult ? |
| 3 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 4 | Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline . |
| 5 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 6 | The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures . |
| 7 | In the least ‘ radical ’ forms , the home authorities remain the main providers of services , but the purchasing of services from other health authorities is increased . |
| 8 | In the least ‘ radical ’ forms , the home authorities remain the main providers of services , but purchasing of services from other health authorities is increased . |
| 9 | Will employers prefer the new graduates to the A level employees , and , where will the graduates with their already developed learning skills obtain their building surveyor education ? |
| 10 | For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant . |
| 11 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 12 | From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens . |
| 13 | Then the pendulum swung too far in the other direction , towards an assertion that the Russians avoided the unpleasant aspects of colonialism as exemplified in Spanish , Portuguese or British experience . |
| 14 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 15 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |
| 16 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 17 | When imaging a surface , researchers bring the fine tip of the STM down to about 1 millionth of a millimetre away from the sample . |
| 18 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 19 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 20 | The transverse fibres or commissures unite the two ganglia of a pair . |
| 21 | The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 . |
| 22 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
| 24 | John , who had many times heard the distant rioting of armies of drunken , brawling navvies on a payday randy , recognized it at once . |
| 25 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 26 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 27 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 28 | For example , we have some wonderful cast chimney-piece ornaments reflecting the popular taste of the time — Dick Turpin , Uncle Tom and Babes in the Wood . |
| 29 | With a sigh she slid her hands beneath the front of his jacket and let her own fingers graze the hard stubs of his nipples . |
| 30 | There have been attempts to estimate the economic cost of corporate crimes and render these in a meaningful fashion ( Bequai 1978 : 1 ; Clinard 1978 : 83–102 ; Conklin 1977 : 2–8 ; Geis 1975 : 95–7 ; Hills 1971 : 167–68 ; McCaghy 1976 : 205 ; President 's Task Force Report 1967 : 47–51 ; Stotland 1977:180–82 ) . |