Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The womenfolk noted down completed sections of the poem , and probably supplied the punctuation — we often feel that there is no reason why one sentence stops and another begins . |
| 2 | Free tea , coffee and biscuits were on offer and , as well the opportunity to pick up useful leaflets and booklets , visitors could consult stallholders . |
| 3 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 4 | The Henley Research Centre acts as a focus for research at Henley and offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance . |
| 5 | Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance . |
| 6 | Wireless , the cinema and television had not yet had the opportunity to smooth down all individuality in the spoken word and local dialect still flourished . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Banking Certificate and Pre-Associateship Route students are taking advantage of the Institute 's CAL revision packages , which combine the advantages of computer-based teaching with the opportunity to iron out any problems with the aid of a tutor helpline . |
| 8 | According to D'Angelo , the festival will also offer existing venues the opportunity to bring in new audiences whom they may then attract on a more regular basis for their standard programming . |
| 9 | In selling direct to a customer overseas , there is the opportunity to build up close relationships with individual customers , based upon trust , commitment and understanding . |
| 10 | Wearing specific copies of uniforms also gives children the opportunity to try out occupational roles , such as astronauts , or nurses as well as fancy roles like robots , or witches . |
| 11 | This small country in Central America was one of the first to seize the opportunity to write off international debt by trading a commitment to large-scale national nature conservation , and that good start is being taken much further . |
| 12 | ‘ Positive discrimination ’ in favour of boys was operated in that context for many years , yet such ‘ discrimination ’ in favour of girls — such as by providing them with extra help in their mathematics , or the opportunity to make up lost ground in CDT — is generally frowned upon . |
| 13 | The remainder joined up next morning . |
| 14 | Her negative attitudes were the result of a harsh life : a sickly , poverty-stricken childhood , the horrors of the war , the struggle to bring up two children and look after an invalid husband . |
| 15 | The board carried out this training diligently , in spite of increasing involvement with a significant problem concerning redistribution of the catchment area of the school , requiring extra meetings with parents , other boards and the education authority . |
| 16 | If successful , the technique open up enormous possibilities for controlling viral infections . |
| 17 | The temperature at which this freedom of the chains to take up any configuration allowed by the bond angle cone occurs will depend upon the chemical composition of the polymer , which , in turn , determines the depth and shape of the energy wells governing the probability of any configuration through a Boltzmann factor . |
| 18 | They want the Government to abolish Child Benefit and all tax allowances for parents and use the money to set up full-time Community Homes for everyone under the age of sixteen . |
| 19 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 20 | The theatre has cancelled a string of performances and workshops while it finds the money to carry out vital repair work . |
| 21 | The money runs out next month , and there is no guarantee that it will be available for next winter . |
| 22 | The transporters are designed to withstand accidents and until recently the Govenrment ruled out any possibility of a radioactive leak . |
| 23 | Nor is vigorous participation in the parliamentary process encouraged by the need for members of the parliament to build up personal networks of connections to advance their careers . |
| 24 | The isotopes give off long-lasting alpha radiation and the waste will remain dangerous for 3000 years or more . |
| 25 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 26 | The Hercules carried out vital wartime duties in the Falklands and the Gulf . |
| 27 | Much of the training done by the family members had been linked to machinery as the sons carried out this work on the farm . |
| 28 | The houses cluster along short culs-de-sac from distributor roads , and separate footways and cyclepaths occupy the central open space . |
| 29 | It is likely that if an ‘ order in council ’ is to be confirmed as law , it will require an affirmative resolution of the Houses to bring about this result ( see above , pp.86–7 ) but such a procedure is not mandatory . |
| 30 | One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer . |