Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path . |
| 2 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 3 | For a while they walked in silence , retracing their steps back up towards the house . |
| 4 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |
| 5 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 6 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 7 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 8 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 9 | Cheeks dripping white , the kids walk back to the car , happy and contented . |
| 10 | Your eyes look out into the world around you . |
| 11 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 12 | The decor is a fascinating mix of antique and modern and the bedrooms look out to the countryside . |
| 13 | Competition between consumers for a given commodity may , for example , tend to force its price upward ; each consumer is careful not to consume beyond the point where the marginal purchase is just worthwhile ; during the process , those who are less eager consumers of marginal units drop out of the race earlier . |
| 14 | During the final stages of an attack the weapon 's sensors lock on to the target ship 's radar or sonar signals and the Telemine homes in on them . |
| 15 | The dangerous stinging tentacles hang down below the float . |
| 16 | The approval of the Animal Welfare Committee at the Durham VA Medical Center was obtained before all studies and care of animals conformed to the guidelines set out in the Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals . |
| 17 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 18 | The objectives of the new agency would be to assist the Community and the Member States to achieve the goals set out in the Treaty of Rome and in successive environmental action programmes ; it must also , however , be seen in the context of the European Council 's adoption on 2 December 1988 of the Rhodes Declaration on the Environment and the environment chapter in the Single European Act which comes into effect in 1992 . |
| 19 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 20 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 21 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 22 | Five parties set out on the night of 11 July , led by Martin , Jellicoe , Jordan , Fraser and Mayne . |
| 23 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 24 | The readers find out about the kind of organisation they are dealing with . |
| 25 | She saw his hands relax , and the broad shoulders lean back in the chair . |
| 26 | When our teenagers go out for the evening , most of them use something , if only occasionally , as a social prop . |
| 27 | I watched his shaking shoulders go out of the gate and disappear round the corner . |
| 28 | When the dun evening comes the kids go down to the irrigation channels for some bilharzia bathing . |
| 29 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
| 30 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |