Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some concentrate on the large-scale surface geometry model and structural analysis . |
| 2 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 3 | The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially . |
| 4 | ‘ That may mean some shift in the regional balance of expenditure . |
| 5 | Some circulate in the Arctic Ocean , others stream down the east Greenland or Labrador coasts and disperse widely in the north Atlantic Ocean , becoming a hazard to shipping . |
| 6 | Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) . |
| 7 | It may not be quite as easy as some assume in the developed world , either . |
| 8 | What does all this imply for the feminist struggle around housing ? |
| 9 | In this case the message sent on the SWIFT system from the US bank to the UK bank is that your ( NOSTRO ) account has been credited by us with $10 000 , in return pass on this amount to the named beneficiary , the UK exporter . |
| 10 | Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine . |
| 11 | Only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks . |
| 12 | As The Economist pointed out , ‘ only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks ’ . |
| 13 | I confess to not immediately grasping one reason for the cathedral 's decline ( ’ Pigeons can be kept off the facade by netting but few sink into the porous marble ’ ) . |
| 14 | Some specialise in the hard stuff like paving , fencing and ponds ; others deal with soft landscape — that 's the plants and the soil . |
| 15 | I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it . |
| 16 | Some relate to the free-enterprise market nature of its economy which , superficially , resembles the state of affairs in Britain as described in Karl Marx 's Capital of 1867 — but modified here ( thanks to mass immigration from mainland China ) by , for instance , massive public housing investment . |
| 17 | Since then General Electric has paid $150million for a half stake in the Hungarian light bulb manufacturer Tunsgram and General Motors has decided to build an engine plant there . |
| 18 | These suffer from the further problem of treating all deprivation as relative and scaling all measures to the same variance ( as is also done for the index of an ‘ area 's social conditions ’ used in the assessment of GRE ) . |
| 19 | None of these appear on the inexhaustive list published by Lars Gunnar Andersson and Peter Trudgill . |
| 20 | The television department in an advertising agency is responsible for the process of turning the creative team 's ideas , scripts and storyboards into finished TV or radio commercials and ensuring these appear on the right channel at the right time on the right day . |
| 21 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 22 | Its part is often written in the treble clef on G ( 2nd line ) but it is quite immaterial which clef or note is used , provided that a note different from those used for the side-drum and triangle ( if these appear in the same score ) is chosen . |
| 23 | These jingle at the slightest touch on the head . |
| 24 | But aside from these two areas , most companies still operate with thousands of specialists who are judged and rewarded by how well they perform their separate functions — with little knowledge , or concern , about how these fit into the complex process of turning raw materials , capital and labour into a product or service . |
| 25 | Any description of individual habits in this AL is influenced by the interplay of the four components of the model already discussed and how these focus on the fifth component , individuality in communicating . |
| 26 | Some have been designated as sites of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) , but these stop at the low-water mark , allowing rubbish dumping further out on the water . |
| 27 | When we turn from ‘ needs ’ to ‘ resources ’ we find that these vary with the general wealth of an area . |
| 28 | These vary from the normal flag and pennant styles ( tapering to the left or right ) arches , an eye shape and so on . |
| 29 | But in the swordfish these extend onto the lower surface of the ‘ sword ’ . |
| 30 | These extend into the back-arc basin of the Andaman Sea where there is evidence of some divergent motion . |