Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies using those that do exist provide little support for the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 2 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 3 | Accidental failure of electricity or gas supply not caused by the deliberate act of the supply authority . |
| 4 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 5 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 7 | Such fans tend not to travel on the regular ‘ soccer special ’ bus coaches and trains , preferring to use scheduled public transport . |
| 8 | Many partnerships , of course , are characterised by much more superficial , less close relationships between education and business where , crucially , activities remain largely separate from the mainstream activities of both and owned only by those individuals who are involved rather their organisations . |
| 9 | Directional planning involves identifying barriers and potentials and choosing a course in order to overcome the former and make best use of the latter . |
| 10 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 11 | Ethics affect both medical practice and research , but research usually falls under the closest scrutiny . |
| 12 | Put both answers on the same postcard and send it to : Sharp answer , Liverpool Echo Sports Desk , PO Box 48 , Old Hall Street , L69 3EB . |
| 13 | Because students are usually taught four-part harmony , and there are four conventional voices ( soprano , alto , tenor , and bass ) , they tend always to write for the conventional four-part mixed choir , thus ignoring the existence of the most common voices of all ( mezzo soprano and baritone ) . |
| 14 | All that I am saying is that I strongly suspect that those periodic catastrophes make more showing in the stratigraphical record than we have hitherto assumed . |
| 15 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 16 | Brand only advertises in the gay mags and , to judge from those present , that 's where he gets his clients . |
| 17 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 18 | CULROSS Largely administered by the National Trust for Scotland , a town still essentially sixteenth- and seventeenth-century in building and layout , with cobbled streets for the poor , ‘ planestane ’ strips for the gentry , a dignified Town House , preserved ‘ Little Houses ’ , and a shipping merchant 's white-harled , pantiled mansion which he chose to designate a ‘ palace ’ . |
| 19 | For the adherents of a great tradition are largely unaware of their own premises , which lie deeply embedded in the unconscious foundations of practice " ( Polanyi 1964 : 76 ) . |
| 20 | Each Spring , as Cornwall prepares for its annual , generally welcome , English invasion , times seem far removed from the troubled Tudor days when hastily mustered Cornish armies invaded England in support of various causes , culminating in the Western Rebellion of 1549 , when a largely Cornish army besieged Exeter for five weeks . |
| 21 | WITH the latest appalling upsurge in violence , both loyalist and republican , thoughts of peace or even a breakthrough in the political stalemate seem far removed from the grim reality . |
| 22 | In practical terms this meant replacing processes of superego-formation in child-rearing and initiation ritual with mechanisms of state law-enforcement — parallel processes of superego-degradation and increasing state control which , as we shall see , seem well advanced in the modern world and which therefore constitute a similar danger . |
| 23 | Smith disparages our claim to be printing material hitherto available only in medical literature , maintaining that much of what we print regularly appears in the national newspapers and magazines . |
| 24 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |
| 25 | Perhaps the almost doubled entrance prices coupled with the knowledge that big international games lie ahead contributed to the poor show . |
| 26 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 27 | The disciplines involved in the primary care sector , the problems and services which are the subject of research and development , and the research methods and specialist resources required to support the primary care sector all vary significantly compared with the secondary sector . |
| 28 | Such strategies therefore vary considerably according to the economic conditions under which family members operate . |
| 29 | Roll over and repeat both exercises on the other side : Hip and Thigh Extender x 15 ; Front Thigh Stretch x 5 |
| 30 | Last season , an overwhelming number of players declared themselves unavailable for the competition , a sure indicator that they set little score on the provincial matches and they think the national selectors do likewise . |