Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between stress — and strain e for the springs is the Hookean law while for the dash-pot we assume the Newtonian viscosity law . |
| 2 | In the afternoon I watch the English football . |
| 3 | Only then will two vitally important and complementary goals be achieved : to improve Britain 's general educational and vocational competence , and hence our productive capacity ; and to reduce our gross educational inequalities between the elite who receive a narrow education to a very high standard , and the rest . |
| 4 | Despite thirty-six hours in the field they look a cheerful bunch , all prepared to swap ‘ war stories ’ in the mess after a clean-up before going home . |
| 5 | You ca n't see it from where you are standing , but in the kitchen we have an electric blender so that , if the need arises , replenishments of avocado dip can be provided at the touch of a button . |
| 6 | Secondly , and more significantly , this is one of only two sentences in the story which contain an indefinite article : here , " a hospital " . |
| 7 | At one end of the spectrum they portray the nostalgic scene of silver-threaded couples drinking endless cups of tea , surrounded by cats , unfinished knitting and unlit pipes on the mantlepiece . |
| 8 | And in the last twenty minutes of the play they get a emotional kick in the stomach and it 's gut wrenching . |
| 9 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 10 | I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs . |
| 11 | Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation , based on experience , of what will happen . |
| 12 | The DJ they call the Hairy Monster 's a little greyer than he once was , but he insists he 's starting an important new phase of his career . |
| 13 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 14 | If you put the gravel under the cloth and wipe the car you get a great mark . |
| 15 | Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council ; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425 , although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born . |
| 16 | The better you grasp the salient points ( and store them in your memory ) , the more physical intuition and predictive power you will acquire . |
| 17 | It may even turn out that these growth factors are the signals from the organizer which specify the main body axis . |
| 18 | Some people learn on a cheaper second-hand board and once they are sure they want to pursue the sport they buy a modern board on which to progress . |
| 19 | In a prefatory note to his first novel he told his readers , ‘ Except the hero and heroine , and those points of the work which supply the slight plot of it , as a novel the work itself is materially true , especially in the narrative of sea-adventure , most of which did ( to the best of our recollection ) occur to the author . ’ |
| 20 | On top of the alder we have a quilted maple veneer , joined down the middle — but it 's not your usual wafer-thin , cosmetic-reasons-only veneer , since it 's a good 2mm or 3mm thick and rather cleverly bent to follow the forearm chamfering on the front . |
| 21 | ECOVER products provide a unique range of highly effective cleaning agents for use about the home which have a minimum impact on the environment . |
| 22 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 23 | On top of the cistern I spy the new vinyl doll they have — for who knows what weird reason — bought me . |
| 24 | Nobody 's listening but I insist : ‘ This fairness of skin obliges them to shield themselves so that if they do catch the sun they avoid the obvious danger of peeling . |
| 25 | The success rate for a question is the percentage of those pupils taking the test containing the question who obtain a correct answer . |
| 26 | The unfortunate irony for field staff , however , is that immediate changes in water quality are almost certainly changes for the worse which follow a major pollution incident . |
| 27 | As the director I have the big advantage that I know all the melodies . |
| 28 | For clarity and to enable students to follow through the process we recommend a separate column is opened . |
| 29 | At the moment we maintain an easy , friendly relationship . |
| 30 | I always involve the local councillors because at the moment we have a running battle with them over the er repairs , because most of us live in council property in my particular Guild , and so we get involved and s you know what you 're going to do about these you know . |