Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The approach to these projects differs from the earlier generation of higher cost ventures . |
| 3 | Whether the increase in comparatively recent times points to a third population is a subject for Chapter 8 . |
| 4 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 5 | Accountability in committee meetings lies with the whole membership and not with particular individuals . |
| 6 | A flight of steps goes up the left-hand side of the gallery . |
| 7 | If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man … |
| 8 | ( Research by Lynda Grattan and Tim Morris on effective succession planning in organizations points to the considerable importance of feedback to men and women early in their careers . |
| 9 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |
| 10 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
| 11 | The repeated victory of the owner against intruders looks like an arbitrary convention , obeyed by both individuals , that the ‘ owner always wins ’ . |
| 12 | Fortunately continuing research by agrochemical manufacturers has to a large extent enabled the persistent organo-chlorides to be suspended . |
| 13 | A new era of austerity starts in April 1994 , and the next 12 months looks like an all-too-brief inter-regnum in which the economy is being given a chance to grow again before the tax blows begin to fall . |
| 14 | A good part of the wit of these two fabliaux lies in the incongruous mixture of the urbane and sophisticated amusement they have to offer with the notionally rude and crude character of the churls ' minds . |
| 15 | This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship . |
| 16 | A key difference to conventional relational databases lies in the sheer size of data objects which multimedia databases must handle . |
| 17 | The loftier tone of these words blends with a certain tendency to affectation ( the gallicism gants de Suede ) , and to euphemism ( payment is referred to by terms and remuneration , the child 's ill-health is glossed over in the noun weakness and the negative phrase " not robust " ) . |
| 18 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 19 | There is at least one instance of an aedile of a pagus , although we might suspect that the praefectus pagi of the Gallic Epotes lies outside the normal run of local government officials , though it must be remembered that magistrates could appoint prefects to act for them in their absence . |
| 20 | This a less familiar technique , used for a number of plants and usually very successful ( the persistence of couch grass and convolvulus from root fragments depends on the same principle ) . |
| 21 | The right to access the system databases depends on the appropriate authority being granted by the database administrator . |
| 22 | On shores composed mainly of shingle the amount of erosion performed by waves depends to a large extent on whether they are constructive or destructive . |
| 23 | After his visit to the hospital he spoke to shoppers in Stockton High Street about the community charge and Labours plans for a fair rate . |
| 24 | Just how small the signals must be for the Z and h-parameter equations to apply with constant sets of parameters depends on the particular case . |
| 25 | All it does is answer nothing and demands answers to a whole host of other questions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The term natural justice is used for that part of the spectrum which requires a relatively wide range of procedural checks , while fairness is used in those areas either where the nature of the decision-maker renders the term natural justice inappropriate or the set of safeguards tends towards the lower end of the spectrum . |
| 28 | The above arguments lead to the conclusion that the usual initial data for colliding plane waves leads to a unique solution only up to the topological singularities and in regions II and III , and to the ‘ focusing ’ singularity in the interaction region . |
| 29 | This meander among association books ends with a royal occasion-the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in August 1902 . |
| 30 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |