Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially . |
| 2 | ‘ That may mean some shift in the regional balance of expenditure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may not be quite as easy as some assume in the developed world , either . |
| 5 | Some specialise in the hard stuff like paving , fencing and ponds ; others deal with soft landscape — that 's the plants and the soil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lipids — these exist in the top layer of your skin and fill the spaces between the skin cells , like mortar in a brick wall . |
| 10 | The obverse of money market advances is money market deposits , and these work in the same way . |
| 11 | These occur in the second half of pregnancy , and there is nothing you can do to prevent them . |
| 12 | As nearly all of these occur in the 40–80 age group ( and not everyone with colorectal cancer dies of it ) the annual incidence in this group is greater than 38 per 50000 . |
| 13 | All change in the second half . |
| 14 | The covariant derivative can be used to describe the differential change of any local vector along a given path , because local vectors all transform in the same way . |
| 15 | They competed for the Henderson Young Show-Jumpers Award , with many overcome in the first round , including Points Table winner Andrew Davies . |
| 16 | Success depends on the resolution we all show in the new year |
| 17 | ART TREASURE tours all begin in the same way . |
| 18 | ‘ In one cubic centimetre of empty space the amount of energy is much greater than the total amount of energy of all matter in the known universe . ’ |
| 19 | Many convey in the physical appearance of their subjects the traditional Roman virtues of austerity and respect for authority . |
| 20 | White duly came down to London from his home in Wolverhampton — he is the senior member of a remarkable quartet of Elvis Gordon , Dennis Stewart and the banned Kerrith Brown who have all won medals at world level , yet all train in the back room of an Edwardian bath house . |
| 21 | Because these three associated religions appear to have in common the belief in one transcendent personal creator , it is often assumed that they all believe in the same God . |
| 22 | The hard struggles to realize democracy , against the entrenched interests of birth and wealth ; the deprecation of democracy as the rule of " the mob " or " the rabble " ; the conviction that the poor , or working men , have no competence in politics ; the uneasy coexistence of political equality with social and economic inequality ; the linking of the struggle for democracy with the struggle for freedom of speech and equality before the law ; the dependence of democracy upon a communal sense of identity — all these are found in the Greek experience , and all recur in the modern evolution of democracy and the debate it generated . |
| 23 | I might add that this is not an attempt to get publicity as there are only three NME readers in this town — and we all play in the same band ! |
| 24 | Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation . |
| 25 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 26 | Now those companies that have built their own operating system ( and around 60% or more do in the real-time area ) can retain their investment and buy into the new operating system as the company reckons it can emulate any existing operating system . |
| 27 | Though H pylori also raises G17 several fold in the fasting state , this only causes a minor increase in fasting serum gastrin which consists predominantly of G34 . |
| 28 | Thanks er , did the provision for er , properties like Penguin and four and a half million for the year , did all of that come in the second half , because it 's noticeable that Penguin is ahead something like what , thirty two percent , second half on second half . |
| 29 | Michael Slater of The Microprocessor Report believes the P5 will be slower than the R4000a when both appear in the first calendar quarter . |
| 30 | More distinction might have been made between Largo and Grave , perhaps , since both occur in the Concerti da chiesa ( Nos. 1–8 ) . |