Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These indicators , however , suggest little of an officer 's abilities in the field , where outputs are vaguer and defy quantification . |
| 2 | Perhaps she could go down next time there was a one-day match and drive him to Taunton herself , interview some of the club 's officers , work something up . |
| 3 | Then place this over the dog 's head before attaching the leash to the upper free ring . |
| 4 | Leks provide some of the world 's most wonderful and memorable bird displays . |
| 5 | Planning and plans occupy much of a manager 's time at any level in the company , with important consequences . |
| 6 | Brighter and more extensive clouds send more of the sun 's heat away from the earth 's surface , adding to the albedo effect . |
| 7 | The inquiry was conducted by senior officials from Central Regional Council and Stirling District Council , who provide most of the Smith 's funding . |
| 8 | At risk are the coral reefs , mangroves , lagoons , marshes and estuaries that support much of the region 's wildlife . |
| 9 | Not only does a diesel engine consume less of the world 's oil resources , but — provided it is regularly serviced — also lasts longer than a petrol engine . |
| 10 | The questions on the core curriculum concerned its nature , i.e. whether it should be a narrow core or cover most of a pupil 's curriculum , and the way it should be expressed , i.e. in terms of school subjects or educational objectives . |
| 11 | City observers suspect some of the group 's banks , who are led by National Westminster and Barclays , may have refused to sign cheques to allow the payment of the dividend which is believed to cost about £7 million . |
| 12 | Yachting Partners manage many of the world 's finest yachts , power or sail . |
| 13 | We now start our study of the economy as a whole and in the remainder of the book we consider many of the world 's most pressing macroeconomic problems — problems like persistent unemployment , rapid inflation , balance of payments difficulties , economic stagnation and unequal distributions of income and wealth . |
| 14 | Object of the exercise being organised by Tameside RU Youth Development Officer Mark Nelson is to provide a coaching day which will cater for and attract most of the county 's emerging players in the 14/17 years age-group . |
| 15 | The drums and percussion section of orchestral recordings lack their customary undernourished bass and tizzy top-end — a reversal of the traditional finding with compact disc — and the strong pulse that underpins music as varied as Bach 's Violin Concertos and Stravinsky ballets ( both well represented in the test programme ) was captured with a power and ‘ snap ’ that make many of the Ariston 's closest price competitors sound feeble . |
| 16 | Apprentices do not wake up in strange beds the night before an important ride and then tell all to the boss 's wife . |
| 17 | If we recover more of a text 's historicity , recapture the lost agencies which originally motivated its emergence and come to understand more about the conditions of its emergence , we may find a cultural presence strange and apparently remote from our own . |
| 18 | Pass any through the serpent 's coils , And try to lay claim to the spoils . |
| 19 | Most catalogues begin , usually with some proud and flamboyant phraseology , by describing the new varieties being introduced for the first time , and invariably , because they are the kinds that get most of the breeders ' attentions , these will be H.T.s and Floribundas . |
| 20 | Sulphur dioxide particles in the atmosphere act as reflectors and bounce some of the sun 's rays back into space . |
| 21 | However , before that , in December , AWSD announced internally that it had cut a similar deal with IBM 's Entry Systems Technology Group to set up a Personal RISC Systems joint venture to design , build and market all of the company 's PowerPC-based goods as well as such items as the X terminals and PC-priced M20 baby RS/6000s introduced last week . |
| 22 | Fibre/resin composite is used for the skins , which confer most of the sandwich 's rigidity ; the core is merely a light but compressively stiff intermediary that keeps the two skins apart . |
| 23 | Systems like ‘ Big Ears ’ use much of the computer 's processing power to recognise just a few words spoken by one person . |
| 24 | Together with termites they turn most of the earth 's soil , enriching it , draining it and airing it . |
| 25 | From the water companies ' point of view , the advantage of indirect systems is that they reduce the effects on the mains of heavy demand ( first thing in the morning , for example ) and that they keep most of the householder 's water system separate from the mains supply . |
| 26 | Each recipient doing business in or organised under the laws of the United States of America or in areas subject to its jurisdiction represents that it is an institutional investor , expressing an interest for its own account and agrees not to purchase , distribute or sell any of the Company 's securities or any interest therein except in compliance with the above laws . ] |
| 27 | Well I think some of the manufacturers ' guarantees , certainly on motor cars , erm are reasonable and you can expect to rely on them and get things put right . |
| 28 | In any case the zooxanthellae generate much of the coral 's nutritional needs by photosynthesis . |
| 29 | It is a superbly efficient food gatherer , and can siphon ten gallons of water at a single suck and squirt this into the elephant 's mouth . |
| 30 | I write this as the world 's Number One fan of the Demon Boyz , a roughneck little Tottenham posse . |