Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some concentrate on the large-scale surface geometry model and structural analysis .
2 Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause .
3 ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’
4 The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially .
5 ‘ That may mean some shift in the regional balance of expenditure .
6 But some depend on a specific view of science , notably that there are objective and timeless laws at work and that normative considerations are to be excluded .
7 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 .
8 Some consist of a simple bowl with a lip , over which the water trickles , while others come in sections of varying lengths and shapes which can be joined together to form complex arrangements .
9 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 ) .
10 It may not be quite as easy as some assume in the developed world , either .
11 What does all this imply for the feminist struggle around housing ?
12 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 .
13 Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine .
14 Only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks .
15 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 ’ .
16 Some argue for an exhaustive definition of what is in effect a moral excuse .
17 Some apply for every in-service training course that is going .
18 Of the remaining 120 fabliaux recognized in the Nouveau Recueil Complet des Fabliaux , more than half exist in a single copy , and fewer than twenty of the more innocently titled fabliaux exist in four or more manuscript copies .
19 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 ’ ) .
20 Some specialise in the hard stuff like paving , fencing and ponds ; others deal with soft landscape — that 's the plants and the soil .
21 I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it .
22 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 .
23 Others may experience a light-headed sensation as if they have had a few glasses of wine ; a few fall into a deep sleep !
24 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 .
25 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 ) .
26 As regards offers , at any one time we would have over 1000 offers available in-store ; these change on a weekly basis and it would be almost impossible to give advance notice to all staff ; we do of course highlight them in-store to customers and many are advertised in the national press or on TV so that customers [ and potential customers ] may be attracted to shop in JS branches .
27 None of these appear on the inexhaustive list published by Lars Gunnar Andersson and Peter Trudgill .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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