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 | Accountability in committee meetings lies with the whole membership and not with particular individuals . |
| 3 | A flight of steps goes up the left-hand side of the gallery . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship . |
| 7 | A key difference to conventional relational databases lies in the sheer size of data objects which multimedia databases must handle . |
| 8 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The right to access the system databases depends on the appropriate authority being granted by the database administrator . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Neither of these considerations applies to the present appeal . |
| 14 | The court may extend the date but if nine months expires after the extended period the action will be automatically struck out . |
| 15 | One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | that the duty of judges goes beyond the automatic enforcement of the dictates of Parliament . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The study of such commonsense matters goes under the delightful name of ergodynamics . |
| 23 | The larger of the two chips fits in the main processor socket , the smaller in the coprocessor socket . |
| 24 | And the source of those circumstances lies in the imperial expansion of the seventeenth century , the settlement of the West Indies and the expansion of the trade in slaves , gold and sugar between Africa , the Americas and Britain . |
| 25 | The accuracy of global field models depends on the worldwide network of magnetic observatories . |
| 26 | The announcement was in response to the enormous oil spill off the southern tip of the Shetland Islands : eleven million tons of oil destined for western European countries passes through the Venetian Lagoon each year , bound for the port of Marghera . |
| 27 | The elision of third parties into the overall international community in the Draft Articles occurs for the particular purpose of identifying the consequences of an international wrongful act . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |