Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 2 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 3 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 4 | The rule that delivery and payment are concurrent conditions ties in with the unpaid seller 's lien ( see Chapter 12 ) which entitles him in the absence of contrary agreement to retain the goods until payment . |
| 5 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 6 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
| 7 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 8 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |
| 9 | The dhāmi bursts out through the crowded doorway , carrying his bells and a bronze bowl of turmeric-stained rice grains in one hand . |
| 10 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |