Example sentences of "the [noun] [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would he care to address the fact that because these orders are being taken separately for Wales and England it is not possible to make the quota applicable in the same way in the same parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | This clever idea allows the pit to be shut away when not in use , making it look attractive while keeping the sand clean at the same time . |
| 3 | Then pipe across the next vertical line so that the bands half-alternate with the former bands in a criss-cross fashion all the way down . |
| 4 | the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn . |
| 5 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 6 | Indeed the approach in some ways resembled that of the early Russian school of soil science and involved the recognition of zonal phenomena as the direct results of latitudinal climatic belts ; of azonal phenomena arising from non-climatic control including endogenetic effects ; extrazonal phenomena which occurred beyond their normal range of occurrence such as sand dunes on coasts ; and polyzonal phenomena including those which operate in all regions of the globe subject to the same basic physical laws . |
| 7 | To mitigate this problem , the transferor company may have to be re-financed before the hive-down , for example by the elimination of intra-group indebtedness , followed by the purchase of Target shares at a nominal value , coupled with the re-financing of Target and the repayment of the loan due to the former parent company . |
| 8 | For morphologically complex words this can be much worse , for example the word unbelievable on the same system ( including garbage collection ) required over 200 seconds of run time . |
| 9 | But , in English of the present day , the word arable in the former phrase is clearly an associative adjective , setting off one group of farmers from others such as pig farmers . |