Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 2 | If this happened , sales staff would be encouraged to give more attention to tailoring insurance savings plans to the long-term needs of the customer . |
| 3 | The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel . |
| 4 | Its tasks include finding out how the cladding around the nuclear fuel rods deforms at the high temperatures that might follow a loss of cooling water . |
| 5 | For most motors the static torque/rotor position characteristic exhibits a rapidly diminishing return in terms of torque produced as the phase current approaches its rated value [ see Fig. 3.1(a) ] , indicating that magnetic saturation or the stator and rotor teeth occurs at the higher currents . |
| 6 | Although the tenseness of Gilbert 's male statuettes differs from the idealised figures of the neo-classical era , the active dominant ‘ heroic ’ role of men found in William Hamo Thornycroft 's ‘ Teucer ’ ( 1881 ) and the modern ‘ Mower ’ ( 1884 ) changes little . |
| 7 | The ownership of archaeological finds depends on the local laws ( in some countries all archaeological artefacts are automatically the property of the state and have to be reported , while in others the finds belong to the owner of the land on which they were found ) , but whatever the ownership , each find needs to be properly recorded if it is to be of any use archaeologically . |
| 8 | The deviations from the no-arbitrage condition that can not be removed in this way should not exceed the difference in transactions costs between the alternative strategies , e.g. trading futures or the underlying shares . |
| 9 | The twice-weekly Carers and Toddlers Club for 1½–2½-year-olds concentrates on the visual arts ( collage , clay , drawing ) There are stories , too , for the eight children and parents . |
| 10 | ‘ I deal mainly with consumer credit law which can involve , for example solving a problem on an agreement , or ensuring that advertising material produced by Lombard and its subsidiaries complies with the appropriate regulations . ’ |
| 11 | MAKING TRACKS This month 's Making Tracks goes behind the closed doors of the record industry for an intriguing glimpse inside the minds of the A&R men and women of the business , those people on whose whim your musical career could stand or fall … |
| 12 | According to this , the meaning of words and statements lies in the psychological states ( including long standing dispositions ) which they combine to produce in hearers and to be caused by in speakers . |
| 13 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |
| 14 | However , further platelets aggregate to the platelet monolayer when an aggregation agent is added and an accretion of platelets occurs between the two electrodes . |
| 15 | In contrast to this , the informal approach to organisations concentrates upon the informal relations that exists between individuals and groups within an organisation . |
| 16 | The images on show reflect the initial choice of photographers themselves , rather that of the awards judges at the final stages ( 11–21 Feb ) . |
| 17 | The ranking of the modalities and concomitants relates to the individual symptoms concerned and should fall into one of the above categories . |
| 18 | In a report published on Aug. 5 the human rights group Amnesty International ( AI ) cited a witness who spoke of mass executions and human rights abuses in the inter-clan conflicts of recent months , and said that this report was consistent with others received by AI . |
| 19 | MI5 — the ‘ spycatcher ’ agency charged with rooting out subversives — routinely studies reports on the private lives of the young Royals . |
| 20 | The third set of arguments points to the bad effects of using law on the family . |
| 21 | Some support for evolutionary theories comes from the comparative findings , which show that high maximum lifespans in optimal conditions ( cited in the introduction ) occur in creatures with a low risk of mortality in nature , and hence with strong selection maintaining late life . |
| 22 | Easy Doncaster winner Forest Tiger is expected to consolidate his 2,000 Guineas claims in the Craven Stakes ( 3.40 ) and Jack Berry 's Heather Bank may make all in the Ladbrokes Boldboy Sprint Handicap ( 4.10 ) . |
| 23 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 24 | However , an overcrowded room with either poor lighting or too much glare from unshaded windows and haphazard storage of materials adds to the daily problems of self-organisation and comfortable study habits that can be particularly important for children with visual problems . |
| 25 | The important difference between my two classes of genes lies in the divergent circumstances from which they stand to benefit in the future . |
| 26 | In my paper , it is shown that the electron in lowest energy or ground state of the hydrogen atom indeed does continually radiate its energy away as predicted by classical theory , but it also absorbs energy from the ever-present sea of zero-point energy in which the atom is immersed , and an assumed equilibrium between these two processes leads to the correct values for the parameters known to define the ground-state orbit . |
| 27 | All of Marx 's and Engels 's work attempts to isolate dynamic processes implies in the social forms which they were studying . |
| 28 | Thus he wrote ‘ The general level of real wages depends on the other forces of the economic system ’ ( GT , p. 14 , original italics ) . |
| 29 | The word origami comes from the Japanese ori ( folding ) and kami ( paper ) . |
| 30 | This is because the energy for neuroses comes from the sexual instincts which are seeking private gratifications , rather than the combination of erotic and egoistic elements found in the social impulses . |