Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Romanes , the evolutionist , physiologist and early comparative psychologist , declared in 1887 that ‘ we must look the fact in the face … it must take many centuries for heredity to produce the missing five ounces of the female brain ’ . |
| 2 | GUIDELINES FOR GROUP DOING THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM |
| 3 | These brilliant vitreous squares of colour catch the limited rays of light from the high windows of the drum and create a shimmering effect which glows and is alive in the semi-darkness of the church . |
| 4 | Different styles of karate perform the front kick in different ways but the effective competition front kick is common to them all . |
| 5 | CIS Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 12 to agree an agenda for a Heads of Government meeting the following day . |
| 6 | In February 1988 the Heads of State accepted the proposed reform of the Structural Funds and doubled their appropriation , in real terms , from ECU 7 bn in 1987 to ECU 14 bn in 1993 . |
| 7 | Appalled by this pagan tradition , the authors of Genesis converted the sensual , fertile goddess into a shameful sinner . |
| 8 | The Labour Unity Campaign Committee statement issued for " Unity Sunday " on 18 July 1937 called on " all supporters of unity to put the utmost energy into the work of rousing the Labour Party membership to the need for immediate struggle for the demands listed in the programme and to lead the revival campaign by their example of practical work " . |
| 9 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 10 | After frustrating years in which they had covered acres of print discussing the sociological theory and implications of newspaper readership , they wanted to compete in the more popular market . |
| 11 | Taken together , the forces of production and the social relationships of production form the economic basis or ‘ infrastructure ’ of society . |
| 12 | As the requirement to speak plainly replaced domestic allusiveness , and ordered paragraphs of thought replaced the one-sentence interjection , so people became more reticent . |
| 13 | Now the runners were nearly into the straight , and Mandarin — lame and exhausted — called up extraordinary reserves of courage to retrieve the forfeited ground . |
| 14 | Swathes of rain cloaked the noisy inn like the bed-curtain drawn round a feverish and delirious child , while the dark , deserted houses of the rest of the village kept a silent , gloomy vigil round about . |
| 15 | He wrote a letter dated 20th February , 1842 , to Schwabe , his publisher in Dusseldorf saying that ‘ I have now after 18 months of work finished the sixth edition of my Organon , the most nearly perfect of all . ’ |
| 16 | The memorandum committed the Japanese government to revise the application of the alien registration law to Koreans in order to replace the fingerprinting requirement with a record of family registration . |
| 17 | She tried to persuade me someone stole one of her golf-clubs in order to attack the unfortunate Monsieur Gebrec . ’ |
| 18 | I will examine the strategies used in HARPY , HWIM and two more recent systems , SPHINX and RM1 , and discuss how each system has adapted one or the other of the basic admissible algorithms in order to reduce the potential combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses . |
| 19 | Simon explores the properties , associations and connotations of words in order to form the thematic basis of the novel . |
| 20 | But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ? |
| 21 | The vast majority of people buy oriental rugs in order to enhance the decorative integrity of their homes . |
| 22 | This involves brokers generating income by constantly and needlessly buying and selling investments for their clients in order to collect the heavy commissions which accrue . |
| 23 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 24 | But the antique mirrors , which at his direction had been cut into squares in order to line the dining-and-dance room , were now tarnished and occasionally flew off the wall ; and the two murals done by Matisse had been sold to Americans . |
| 25 | The images on show reflect the initial choice of photographers themselves , rather that of the awards judges at the final stages ( 11–21 Feb ) . |
| 26 | In addition , the planners argue that they have a duty imposed upon them under recent Acts of Parliament to conserve the natural environment of Orkney . |
| 27 | Anarchists urged acts of terror to destabilize the established social order , and together with some socialists rejected further industrialization and all forms of property . |
| 28 | The specific values of citizenship voiced the social significance of ‘ the common good , ‘ service ’ , ‘ character ’ , ‘ rationality ’ , ‘ self-realisation ’ , and ‘ morality ’ . |
| 29 | Other erupted on it , while hostile lances of light sought the gaping wounds those explosions had opened … |
| 30 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |