Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 2 | The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end . |
| 3 | Its many alterations and additions reflect in stone and brick , the looms and busts at the woollen industry . |
| 4 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 5 | Denice lets out little yelps of laughter at the occasional humorous moments and squirms and groans during the gory bits . |
| 6 | The great landscape of lights glitters and shimmers in the warm evening air . |
| 7 | Between these two stable points the composition tilts and weaves through the various clustered groups and knots of interest , reaching its climax in the prostrate figure of Nelson . |
| 8 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 9 | Detailed analysis of the local bond structure is required when defects are being considered , such as jogs , folds and kinks in the solid polymer . |
| 10 | My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 12 | I , Bella laughed , I 'm just the aunt , the one who sees lessons are done , the one who teaches and organizes and cooks and mends and deals with the practical side of life . |
| 13 | The use , as materials , of things that have been discarded , abandoned or neglected : from lost shoes and combs to the forgotten histories of women , characterises much of the best work . |
| 14 | St Nicholas Cathedral at the corner of our square is a great deep cavern of dusky toned Baroque , the light upheld by the dark shadows which flow in elegant curliques and whisps around the ornate ceiling , along pillars and walls emblazoned with the richness of colour that only an intensely , at times intellectually , emotional and predominantly Catholic country could produce . |
| 15 | Remember that demand , leading to overload and pressure , is a function of the disparity between duties and wishes on the one hand and limitations on the other . |
| 16 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 17 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 18 | It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and the Faculty of Informatics . |
| 19 | It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and Informatics . |
| 20 | They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects . |
| 21 | By the process of psychology the subject is all too often bound to the negative events in their lives and focuses on the negative results in their personality . |
| 22 | Volume 47 ( 1993 ) will include articles and reviews on the following subjects : |
| 23 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 24 | This meeting notes with concern the potential for exploitation of junior members of the Bar with the introduction of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts and calls on the Legal Aid and Fees Committee to liaise with the Law Society , the Legal Aid Board and the Lord Chancellor 's Department with a view to agreeing a fair approach to fixing Counsel 's fees and making such practical arrangements as are necessary . ’ |
| 25 | Firing a gas kiln is an art and despite all his care the potter submits his ware to the flames and delights in the subtle variations that are beyond his control . |
| 26 | All his attempts to organize street parties , coach outings and singalongs in the local pubs ended in abject failure . |
| 27 | Mr Ingham blusters and inveighs against the perfidious press at the drop of a hat — any story using the words ‘ bunkum and balderdash ’ as part of a denial are certainly based on his remarks — largely because they do not always print what he wishes to see . |
| 28 | There were also no significant differences between the distributions of RP cases and controls among the five histological categories or in the 23 histological features studied . |
| 29 | ACE genotype ( DD more frequent in cases than in controls ) : Population ( different relative frequency of cases and controls in the 4 populations ) : Heterogeneity of ACE genotype effect across populations : |
| 30 | The distributions of the ACE genotypes ( Table 1 ) in cases and controls in the different populations were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium , except in the control group of Toulouse where , for unknown reasons , an excess of heterozygotes was observed . |