Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Accountability in committee meetings lies with the whole membership and not with particular individuals . |
| 5 | A flight of steps goes up the left-hand side of the gallery . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship . |
| 10 | A key difference to conventional relational databases lies in the sheer size of data objects which multimedia databases must handle . |
| 11 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The right to access the system databases depends on the appropriate authority being granted by the database administrator . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Neither of these considerations applies to the present appeal . |
| 19 | The court may extend the date but if nine months expires after the extended period the action will be automatically struck out . |
| 20 | One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Balcon 's strengthened determination to impose his own world-view on the studio 's pictures accounts for the declining ambition of Ealing 's production at this time . |
| 23 | The following description of sampling methods relates to the 1984 survey , but the sample design is similar every year . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As the cost of funding a loan(s) fluctuates in the interbank market this is taken account of in the determination of interest rates payable by the borrower at pre-arranged reference date intervals of three , six or twelve months as set out in the loan contract . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | that the duty of judges goes beyond the automatic enforcement of the dictates of Parliament . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The study of such commonsense matters goes under the delightful name of ergodynamics . |
| 30 | The larger of the two chips fits in the main processor socket , the smaller in the coprocessor socket . |