Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 2 | If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ . |
| 3 | As the income arises in the underlying company it is felt that , on a proper reading of TA 1988 , s231(1) and ( 4 ) , the income will be assessed upon the UK settlor under s739 and he will be entitled to a tax credit . |
| 4 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 5 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 6 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
| 7 | Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it . |
| 8 | They took the opportunity to share in the daily 10 o'clock Mass , a privilege denied them during their working life . |
| 9 | Many of the latter are the forms mentioned in the first paragraph of this section as running parallel to the coast . |
| 10 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 11 | The door was open and she stood just outside the aperture taking in the five men . |
| 12 | Overseas , the Kuwait operation has been successful in managing the contracts won in the early part of last year . |
| 13 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 14 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 15 | Use the scatter dice to determine the direction moved in the same way as for Goblin Fanatics . |
| 16 | Use the Scatter dice to establish the direction moved in the same way as for Goblin Fanatics . |
| 17 | The possibility of high chain extension in polymer solutions was pointed out by F. C. Frank in 1970 , and the experiments of Mackley using extensional flow fields generated by two opposing jets indicated that very high extensions were attainable , as was shown by the birefringence observed in the flowing solution . |
| 18 | He had thought of Doreen 's absences every night , the front-door banging in the early hours of the morning , the whine of a car drawing away from beneath his window . |
| 19 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 20 | The shirt comes in the usual varied rohan colour range — the colour ( in the case of my turquoise shirt ) is safe after a few washes , and there is a short-sleeved version available for £22 . |
| 21 | As the joystick tilts away from the vertical the mercury flows in the chosen direction and makes one or more electrical contacts , just as though a switch had closed . |
| 22 | By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves . |
| 23 | By 1824 she had lost all her American empire except for Cuba and Puerto Rico , while in metropolitan Spain the struggle waged in the thirties between constitutionalists and traditionalists was to reduce the core of the monarchy to bankruptcy and near anarchy . |
| 24 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 25 | Although the programmes devised in the late 1980s were not dissimilar to earlier statements , there were some variations in emphasis . |
| 26 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
| 27 | In line with the programmes produced in the late 1970s , a brief contextual statement would be followed by a closer definition of the objectives to be pursued in the economic , social , environmental and housing areas , and the role to be played by various statutory authorities and the voluntary sector ( Birmingham City Council , 1987b ; Newcastle City Council , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | The pathos lies in the characteristic early English understatement — ‘ so seldom ’ means ‘ never ’ or worse still ‘ just this once ’ — and also in the last phrase 's suspense between precision and vagueness . |
| 29 | Five of the successor states in the former Soviet Union are wracked by bitter ethnic civil war and rebellion . |
| 30 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |