Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall mean for the 1984–5 sample was 54 per cent and for the 1985–6 sample it was 53 per cent . |
| 2 | That the lion 's share fell to Florence rather than Siena , after a century and a half of medieval snatch and grab between the two republics is proclaimed by the splendid lions on the well and on the Marzocco column . |
| 3 | This argues that the volatility of futures prices will be relatively high during periods when substantial amounts of uncertainty over the levels of demand or supply for the underlying asset are resolved . |
| 4 | Management 's efforts to devise new industrial relations strategies and styles appropriate for the changing circumstances are the subject of chapter 6 . |
| 5 | To illustrate the partial fraction method , suppose that the inverse Laplace transform of the simple function is needed . |
| 6 | What we want in the public service are the best people , irrespective of whether they are men or women . |
| 7 | The figure you place in the final column is how much you can afford to spend repaying a mortgage every month . |
| 8 | ‘ All they want from the wrecked car is the log book , which they can transfer to the stolen car , ’ says Mr Sloan . |
| 9 | In the UK , supply to the final user is , in the main , through a number of major stockists — a system which is rapidly being developed in Western Europe , generally . |
| 10 | A special class of prose-speakers for whom verse-speakers descend to the lower level are clowns , who may sing lyrics or speak verse for satiric purposes , but who are almost invariably addressed in prose the moment they appear . |
| 11 | Mr. Michael : In the light of the White Paper , what importance should the public in Wales now place on the 10-year plans being prepared by health authorities and considered by his Department ? |
| 12 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 13 | However , support for the Unionist Party was neither total nor uncritical . |
| 14 | Support for the exiled King was greatest amongst Catholic recusants and immigrant Irish in the north , who played a prominent role in the plots of the 1690s . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrat manifesto promised : ( i ) support for the European Community 's planned energy tax , the revenue from which would be used to fund environmental and other measures ; ( ii ) a 30 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 ; ( iii ) the creation of a Department of Natural Resources and an independent Environmental Protection Agency ; ( iv ) grants for recycling schemes , home insulation and similar measures ; ( v ) the introduction of pollution licences for factories , with upper limits on the amount of pollutants they could produce ; and ( vi ) the phasing out of nuclear power stations . |
| 16 | A police spokesperson declared on Jan. 10 that allegations of police support for the so-called vigilantes was a " blatant lie " . |
| 17 | Paradoxically , the other major beneficiary from apparent disillusion with the established parties was the far right Front national . |
| 18 | The 5.7t/ha ( 46cwt/acre ) yield from the first field was below expectations , due to pigeon and crow damage in some lodged areas . |
| 19 | But do the minnow eggs also benefit from the male perch 's fanning of the nest ? |
| 20 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |
| 21 | Despite this caveat , however , the frequency with which images of health , construction and " the growth of the new man " in the Soviet Union are contrasted with images of sickness , decay and decline in the capitalist West is itself a telling statement on the intellectual climate of the time . |
| 22 | They object to the two giants being lumped together simply because they are hugely ambitious , colossally expensive and largely Texan . |
| 23 | ring my friend if it makes you feel alright it 's ace if you just sit down and listen to the old Beatles is n't it ? feel alright I do n't care too much for money , money ca n't be me love ca n't be me love |
| 24 | Support on the first night is provided by Dutch quartet Bettie Serveert , while Kristin Hersh plays an acoustic set the following evening . |
| 25 | To what extent her children collaborate on the photographic image is impossible to know . |
| 26 | Because the upper limits of resolution depend on the acoustic wavelength being used , the path researchers are following is to increase the sound frequency , thereby shortening the wavelength . |
| 27 | A highly over-simplified picture of the way sediments accumulate for the future stratigrapher is expressed in strip cartoon form in figure 8.1 . |
| 28 | Whether Curran and Seaton would agree with the principles that lie behind the above proposals is very doubtful . |
| 29 | The wars which so frequently rage in the Middle East are almost invariably born of such allegiances and are frequently claimed to be necessary to protect one particular religion or version or derivative of it . |
| 30 | The last Brownie to reach that place and any Brownies who run in the wrong direction are out of the game . |