Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bends lie at the centres of the met boxes , and correspond to compression of the major groove to a width of 9.4 around the bound repressor β -ribbons , and opening of the opposite minor groove to 8.3 . |
| 32 | So we set off bravely in our four-inchers , risking life , limb and hoots of European laughter , while the Italians stride through the sunbeds in the ultimate pair of flat sandals . |
| 33 | Somehow what is left of Beaufort conspires to embody these political and religious transitions ; when the mists lie in the valleys of southern Lebanon , the remaining walls can be glimpsed above the clouds , but because of the peculiar geography of the place — because the ravines and wadis fold in uneven formation and in odd directions — Beaufort always appears to be in a different location , its broken ramparts a nightmare denture which eludes every contour and coordinate . |
| 34 | The investigators focus on the patterns of social relationships and resources that young people utilize in moving towards adult status and a position in the employment market . |
| 35 | We have to balance this response with a consideration of the relationship the participants develop with the trainers , and to put some of the enthusiastic response down to a desire to please us and to peer group pressure . |
| 36 | The audience chuckles gleefully , and the ballpoints speed across the pages of A4 faster than ever . |
| 37 | A lot of the misconceptions stem from the days when catgut and braided nylon was the stuff you tied your hook to ; when nylon monofilament was something new and therefore not to be trusted . |
| 38 | And in its star system , the accolades go to the miners — they 've been through hell , fire , earth and water to become hardened into heroes . |
| 39 | Besides I do n't think the gondoliers work in the depths of winter . |
| 40 | The science is handled well and often the explanations begin with the basics , such as the structure of oxygen when discussing what ozone actually is . |
| 41 | But the economists differ on the details . |
| 42 | The worms crawl onto the sticks , which can then be picked up and dipped directly into the fry tank . |
| 43 | The worms crawl in The worms crawl out The worms play poker on your snout Be merry my friends be merry ! |
| 44 | One difference is that the worms penetrate between the glands rather than into the glands as in Ostertagia . |
| 45 | The briefing for the patrol will take place at Fort George , so all the teams jump on the vehicles and drive down . |
| 46 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 47 | In toads , for instance , the males sit on the backs of females for a few days before the female lays her eggs . |
| 48 | After the rut the males separate from the groups of females and begin their more or less solitary existence once again . |
| 49 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 50 | If the Minister had bothered to listen to the submissions made to him or if he cared one iota for the industry , he would know that the figures come from the farmers . |
| 51 | If the observations agree with the predictions , that does n't prove the theory ; but the theory survives to make further predictions , which again are tested against observation . |
| 52 | There is also likely to be an undertaking to allow the investors access to the books , and for the appointment of a firm of accountants , at the company 's expense , to verify any figures provided . |
| 53 | The problems lie in the connections . |
| 54 | And do you care if the pigeons sit in the trees ? |
| 55 | The terminals start with a 14″ 1024 by 768 screen with 4Mb of memory and include a $2,900 17″ 1,152 by 900 monitor with 4Mb and a high-end 20″ 1,280 by 1,024 screen with 4Mb displaying two pages of text side-by-side . |
| 56 | The wards were very very bare and the families look after the patients , they come in and give them food and erm do a lot more for them than er they do in this country and erm there were two wards out of eight for tuberculosis , for T B , cos that 's a very big problem out in Kenya . |
| 57 | The battens open to the ends of night . |
| 58 | All of these are difficult because it is very unlikely that you will be able to dig down to collect the rabbits that the ferrets accumulate at the dead-ends of the burrows . |
| 59 | On the technical side , the outcome may well be some way from what would be expected of perfect contestability , even if the assumptions approximate to the conditions I have outlined . |
| 60 | As the vultures vie for space , the ravens cling to the edges . |