Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Production and shipment has already begun , and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994 . |
3 | The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading . |
4 | He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship . |
5 | Holding the shares in the index also gives the right to dividends , making the spot price higher than the futures price by the present value of the dividends ( D ) , plus the interest on this sum ( Dr ) . |
6 | They can hardly avoid suggesting death and life ; in that case his song says there can be no defeat — even if the wanderers die in the dark wood , the real Old Forest , they will in death break through to sunlight and out of a hampering shade . |
7 | Look carefully to see how the patterns change in the different streets and squares . |
8 | There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd . |
9 | As the car swings off the road into the technology park , the ducks rise from the man-made lake in the middle , while the surrounding buildings could be straight out of Silicon Valley , or a quieter version of the Thames Valley . |
10 | The ducks nest on the coastal tundra of western Alaska , in its North Slope region — site of the country 's largest oil-fields — and in Siberia . |
11 | The ability to play chords on the horn , provided the notes derive from the same harmonic series , has long been known . |
12 | Among seven species of fruit pigeons in tropical Queensland , the diets of the birds change with the seasonal fruits , each species with a different suite of plant species . |
13 | The prose does the work , the illustrations interfere at the worst and supplement at the best — so much for pictures in the classroom . |
14 | The groups exist for the whole age range , from pre-school upwards . |
15 | The rules apply to the basic married couple 's allowance and also to the age-related addition . |
16 | In lively talk with friends we all continually break the rules appropriate for the written form , and Mr Baker on the radio was no exception . |
17 | The policies date from the Special Areas Act 1934 ( McCrone 1976 ) , but only in the early 1950s was the first rural region ( North West Scotland ) designated . |
18 | This is the operations base for the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe . |
19 | But since the biologists operate within the quantitative framework of statistically based natural science , while the socio-cultural anthropologists mostly argue on the basis of intuition , communication between the two sides is very difficult . |
20 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
21 | Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved . |
22 | If the prefaces strike a sombre note , the entries go to the other extreme by being blandly reassuring and avoiding excessive detail . |
23 | Readability implies that a particular target readership has the experience — the visual , intellectual , and emotional experience — to identify the detail in pictures , to understand what is happening in pictures , and to have some understanding of what is happening ‘ beyond ’ the pictures ( atmosphere , psychological states , what is being demonstrated in an informative illustration ) — in other words , what part the pictures play in the total book , what they contribute . |
24 | Now let us see how the branches grow from the main trunk ; at what angle do they grow from the trunk ? |
25 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
26 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
27 | If the lads continue in the same vein , then we can climb out of trouble . |
28 | I like the house , the countryside , the cleanliness of England and I also like the way the cars drive on the wrong side of the road . |
29 | The Lakes sit astride the US-Canadian frontier , forming the world 's largest body of fresh water . |
30 | These L3 are still present on the pastures when the calves return in the late autumn and , when ingested , the majority will become arrested . |