Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 2 | Children with mild learning difficulties may attend ESN(M) special schools or pass through the normal educational system . |
| 3 | While many of the older songs that survive in the new set — ‘ Big ’ , ‘ Fishes Eyes ’ , ‘ Partial ’ — hang on to Justin 's overweight basslines for their effect , newer material enjoys a much broader baseboard . |
| 4 | The ancestors of practically all the animals that live on the vast plains of western India originally came from the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East . |
| 5 | The maggot-bearing stapelia from southern Africa not only reeks dreadfully of carrion but reinforces its appeal to flies by producing flowers with wrinkled brown petals covered with hairs that look like the decaying skin of a dead animal . |
| 6 | Basically the procedure involves monitoring biological signals that come from the central nervous system , the autonomic nervous system , the musculoskeletal system and the cardiovascular system . |
| 7 | In so far as the auditor in the public sector is expressing an opinion on financial statements , then the Auditing Standards and Guidelines that apply in the private sector also apply in the public sector , absent specific statements to the contrary ( Auditing Guideline 416 , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Global warming or any of the thousand other worries that come under the environmental heading may or may not have a sound scientific basis , but subjective judgement is still required to determine what priority to give them , and what rules , actions and expenditure are justified to relieve them . |
| 9 | Night Goblins eat vast quantities of the multi-coloured fungi that grow in the dank caves where they live . |
| 10 | The conversation in Zuckerman Unbound between the novelist and his mother , in which he tenderly instructs her in how to field the intrusions that arise from the Carnovsky outrage , reads authentically , autobiographically , enough , while showing a good Jewish son . |
| 11 | And of these it is the small-to-medium family cars that sell in the greatest numbers . |
| 12 | But it is personal relationships that emerge as the primary focus of this biography . |
| 13 | Words that have in the last fifteen years or so , become synonymous with the name of Hood Yacht Systems . |
| 14 | layout , type or pictures that extend beyond the trim marks on a page . |
| 15 | Although yeast bHLH proteins that bind to the same DNA sequence as Myc and Max have been described , they are unlikely to play a significant role in our experiments . |
| 16 | The transcription proteins that bind to the octameric DNA sequence ATGCAAAT ( or its complement ATTTGCAT ) are called Oct factors . |
| 17 | As a result , we now have a very detailed picture of the lifestyle of the cuckoo and can recognise it for what it is : not a case of divine creation , but a superb example of the complex adaptations that occur in the intricate interrelationship . |
| 18 | The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads . |
| 19 | Forget about all your worries and concentrate on the bright and dazzling prospects that lie ahead for someone as ingenious , industrious and invitingly delicious as you ! |
| 20 | But many have established Reserves and work with the agricultural community to encourage traditional practices ( very often pump-priming product market outlets ) of agricultural management which conserve the landscape , flora and fauna alike . |
| 21 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 22 | Thanks and praise to the four staff members who so successfully ran the party . |
| 23 | Thanks and praise to the four staff members who so successfully ran the party . |
| 24 | Part of the answer is that the vast majority of service personnel who answer telephones , serve in shops and deal with the great British public are female . |
| 25 | On behalf of all local authority caterers , I thank Joe Hyam for his kind words and support for the local authority caterers . |
| 26 | Cut a small wedge from cake trimmings and attach to the bottom end of the lid half . |
| 27 | for the social life of the family — spoiled , noisy , aggressive , destructive ‘ brats ’ are not welcome in other people 's homes and contribute to the social isolation of their parents ; |
| 28 | Different ruses were used to encourage Africans to leave their homes and work on the new colonial projects . |
| 29 | Then in the 1830s thousands of immigrants arrived to seek homes and work in the new town that had been laid out by Joseph Pease , the Quaker industrialist who had extended the famous Stockton to Darlington railway so as to export coal from his Teeside wharves . |
| 30 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |