Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate . |
| 2 | All policies provide cover under the Buildings Section in respect of : — |
| 3 | All these considerations make changes to the functions performed by the system , and the alteration of processing features , undesirable . |
| 4 | The second and third paragraphs develop information on the products . |
| 5 | For all his coinciding with the world of fashion , with the glamour and risks of the pederasty he helped publicise , Mapplethorpe 's pictures remain alien to the canons of American good taste and to meat-and-potato American ideas about art . |
| 6 | During this process these organic compounds make complexes with the proteins ; these complexes partition phenol-chloroform in the bottom and nucleic acids in aqueous phase on the top . |
| 7 | Accommodation offices provide information on the types of housing available locally , on college policy regarding priority for halls of residence , comparative costings , lists of housing in the private sector and considerable back-up on your legal rights , housing law , etc . |
| 8 | Political parties mobilize bias within the populations of liberal democracies , identifying potential cleavages and presenting themselves as representing the interests of one group more than those of any other ( while recognizing that , for the state to retain its legitimacy , it is necessary to respect the interests of other groups , and thereby present a ‘ one nation ’ perspective in certain situations ) . |
| 9 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 10 | The endothelial cells lining blood vessels become damaged during treatment and the affected vessels leak fluid into the tissues . |
| 11 | Their outputs become inputs for the printers , and the printers ' outputs of labels become inputs for the Heinz factory making tins of baked beans . |
| 12 | KIDS START DAY WITH THE FACTS OF LIFE |
| 13 | Thus although Kimura 's original findings related ear asymmetry to the hemispheric side of speech production it is possible that differences between the ears reflect asymmetry between the hemispheres in speech perception rather than production . |
| 14 | The values of these parameters permit characterization of the curves , and enable numerical comparisons to be made between samples . |
| 15 | These schools take children between the ages of about 8 and 13 and prepare them for competitive entry to the public schools . |
| 16 | The exemption applies if work is carried out within a well-defined programme , and if all participating parties have access to the results and are free to exploit the results independently ( when there is no joint-exploitation arrangement ) . |
| 17 | That is the problem of which my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow ( Mr. Gill ) spoke ; many Labour-controlled local authorities charge way over the oddds . |
| 18 | In his famous and beautifully illustrated book Les Promenades de Paris ( 2 vols , 1867 — 73 ) Alphand talks not only of his landscaping but also of the flowers , shrubs , and trees which he used to ornament his creations , while his illustrations show details of the furnishings and small kiosks and pavilions which were established in the parks . |
| 19 | The absorbed X-rays cause excitation of the electrons in the atoms of a crystal . |
| 20 | Most of the trusts make offers on the grounds that half the money for an appeal is raised from fund raising work in the local area . |
| 21 | But the functions provide clues to the mechanisms . |
| 22 | The cylindrical columns support statues of the apostles ( 612 and PLATE 63 ) . |
| 23 | Most of these schools are private , though parents receive assistance with the fees from a committee which is funded directly by the government and which allocates grants by means test . |
| 24 | The parents stand guard on the eggs until they hatch and the fry reach , within a week , the free-swimming stage . |
| 25 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 26 | In some cases , the accompanying wall texts give details of the sittings : , the model for Euan Uglow 's ‘ Zagi ’ ( 1981–2 ) sat for five hours a day , five or six days a week , during a period from Easter 1981 to Easter 1982 . |
| 27 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 28 | A separate source of unresponsiveness to the consumer ‘ electorate ’ derives from the fact that since companies have control over the goods and services made available to the public , consumers can not positively ‘ vote ’ for the production of goods with the particular characteristics that best suit their requirements , but can only ‘ veto ’ the products they are actually offered . |
| 29 | Other stumbling blocks include differences in the regulations of individual stock exchanges on voting rights of shares in take-over targets . |
| 30 | The terms of these rules give body to the parties ' respective stances before Vinelott J. and on this appeal . |