Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 2 | More than half of the gainfully employed population are in the very heterogeneous Class III but at least the coding is seldom changed . |
| 3 | Interestingly , some of the earliest written texts of Western European culture , the Socratic dialogues , present as conversation what modern writers would present as monologue . |
| 4 | All the same , Pisano 's work is more truly ‘ madrigalian ’ than some of the earliest published madrigals actually so called , the Madrigali de diversi musici libr. po. de la serena ( Rome , 1530 ) . |
| 5 | Some of the earliest known fossil vascular plants , those of the Rhynie Chert of the Devonian 370m years ago , show damage , which might be attributable to biting arthropods . |
| 6 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |
| 7 | use this data to challenge some of the widely cited research findings from the Equal Opportunities Commission ( 1984 ) , that men carers receive a disproportionate share of the statutory services . |
| 8 | Allowing for the categories omitted ( not to mention possible undercounting in some of the slackly administered sub-gaols ) , the true total could be several thousand higher . |
| 9 | A dramatization of stories in verse and prose for children from eight to eighty , featuring some of the best loved characters from children 's fiction : the Pied Piper of Hamelin , the Little Prince , Winnie the Pooh , Christopher Robin . |
| 10 | Apart from primates , some of the best known tool users among the mammals are the African and Asian elephants , whose prehensile trunk gives them a considerable advantage when it comes to holding and manipulating objects . |
| 11 | The architecture in the background shows some of the best known buildings in Frome . |
| 12 | For seven years prior to 1961 , twenty-nine electrical corporations , including some of the best known names in the country , such as General Electric and Westinghouse , conspired illegally to fix prices on large , mainly government contracts , so as to avoid competition and hence reap enormous illegal profit ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) . |
| 13 | Some of the best established tea companies are now entering the herbal tea market , offering blends for evening and morning drinking . |
| 14 | Some of the best preserved buildings have been excavated at Cowdery 's Down and can be arranged sequentially into a minimum of three phases ( Millett 1983 ) . |
| 15 | The Cork area still boasts some of the best rallying country in Ireland and I understand this year 's route includes many of the classic stages from the region . |
| 16 | Although organisations like Comshare and Information Resources have developed software dedicated to handling organisations ' consolidation needs , consolidation is an integral part of some of the well known EIS systems , such as EPiC , from Planning Sciences , as Sandy Skinner explains : ‘ It 's possible to call information in from a variety of diverse sources , and then use the advanced modelling facilities of the system to manipulate information in virtually any way you choose . |
| 17 | Consolidation is an integral part of some of the well known EIS systems BOC Gases supplies hydrogen , which is a component of the controlled atmosphere in which silicon crystals are grown for microchip manufacture |
| 18 | Some of the well known yachts which have emerged from West in recent years include the quarter-tonner Diamond , the Laurent Giles/Warwick Collins-designed Phantom , the Dubois one tonner Midnight Express , and Rapscallion of Russel a cruising version of Phantom . |
| 19 | Johnnie Walker , Dewar 's , White Horse , and Bell 's Scotch whiskies are just some of the well known names in the portfolio . |
| 20 | Some of the carefully calculated compartments in Kircher 's ark . |
| 21 | This study was intended to explore some of the previously discussed concepts while subjects are actually driving a car in normal urban traffic environment . |
| 22 | As Stanyer ( 1976 , ch. 1 ) reminds us , it is important to see each locality as a miniature political and administrative system in its own right , a point reinforced by the Widdicombe Report ( 1986 , p. 22 ) when the committee emphasized that ‘ some of the commonly held assumptions about local government are valid only in a minority of authorities ’ . |
| 23 | The biggest ice cream factory in Europe is throwing open its doors to the public … revealing some of the closest kept secrets of the ice cream world . |
| 24 | Its attraction would seem to lie in the fact that it gives a formalized account of some of the popularly held impressions concerning the character of science , its explanatory and predictive power , its objectivity and its superior reliability compared with other forms of knowledge . |
| 25 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 26 | Despite being directed against relatively specific components of H pylori , their sensitivity ( excluding that of Bio-Rad GAP Test ) and their specificity values are lower than some of the recently published data . |
| 27 | Two miles to the south of Saint-Savin is another of the double barrelled towns in this valley : Pierrefitte-Nestalas . |
| 28 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 29 | In the United States , Margaret Ribble ( 1943 ) published The Rights of Infants ; in England John Bowlby ( 1952 ) followed up his earlier studies of maternal deprivation as an antecedent of what he had called ‘ the affectionless character ’ ( 1946 ) with his report for the World Health Organization , Maternal Care and Mental Health ; and in the opening volume of the journal Psycho-Analytic Study of the Child , Rene Spitz ( 1945 ) published his paper on hospitalized infants and the effects of lack of mothering , and supported this with the widely circulated documentary film , Grief : a Peril in Infancy . |
| 30 | They studied one another across the dimly lit living-room . |