Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 2 | Addition of successively higher odd harmonics steepens the wings and reduces the amplitude of the fluctuations in between . |
| 3 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 4 | Finally , the amount by which the total award exceeds the prescribed element must also be specified . |
| 5 | The dry part contains the salt and various trace elements , plus a dechlorinator . |
| 6 | An intact skin protects the internal structures from water loss and assists in temperature regulation . |
| 7 | The parsing algorithm specifies the manner in which lexical information is to be retrieved , which grammar rules are to be applied to the input and how the information obtained is to be stored . |
| 8 | Communication in science can take place at different levels of complexity or integration of informational elements ; data transfer is the most basic level , comprising the exchange of information on fundamental parameters , such as numerical or analytical data ; the descriptive level involves the transfer of data in a descriptive context ; and at the idea transfer level , deductions , interpretations and predictions are made from data and descriptions earlier acquired , and from background knowledge and experience . |
| 9 | This classic watch radiates the power of gold in its purest form : .999 fine . |
| 10 | Carbon dioxide generation for the Tertiary coals follows the same trend as that for the Palaeozoic coals , though the yield is only about half . |
| 11 | Paul Gascoigne , The Inside Story charts the life of the world 's most talked about footballer . |
| 12 | For me it is still a long haul towards fluency ( and the closer you get , the more tempting just to stop with what you have ) but that sense of a door opening when you reach the conversational level makes the effort of getting another language worthwhile . |
| 13 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 14 | Neat : the rich West gets the power ; the poor East gets the power stations . |
| 15 | Taken from the letters of Maryse Holder , posthumously published as Give Sorrow Words , the film graphically and with total honesty describes the writer 's descent into a hell of her own making on a ‘ Mexican vacation from feminism ’ in search of happiness . |
| 16 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 17 | The pungent smell gives the impression of a powerful cleaning agent . |
| 18 | The technical crux follows the scrambling : an absorbing pitch working intricately rightwards until thin moves give access to good holds in a short overhanging corner , which ends at the base of a long steepening ramp . |
| 19 | But American research suggests a low level clears the way for other health horrors . |
| 20 | Spatial chaos characterizes the region . |
| 21 | Multiparameter flow cytometric analysis of labelled nuclei allows the S phase duration ( Ts ) of mucosal cells to be estimated . |
| 22 | Part of the inconspicuous red-brick building runs the length of a quiet , deserted side street . |
| 23 | He 's now heavy on the front brake , while his right foot strokes the rear brake lever . |
| 24 | Such an expressed provision carries the inference that contact may well become appropriate after the six-month interval and was quite contrary to the conclusion of the local authority that contact between T. and her father was quite inappropriate in any circumstances presently foreseeable . |
| 25 | In our relations with the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe as well as with the poverty-stricken peoples of the South , we will work from the principle that political freedom needs the sure foundation of economic security . |
| 26 | As Sorauf points out , ‘ political money reflects the configuration of influence on American politics ’ . |
| 27 | European Parliament approves the Directive on the Restitution of Cultural Goods |
| 28 | Even if , as conservationists hope , the European Parliament addresses the problem of the administration of structural funds , it still lacks the institutional power to oversee the work of the Commission 's multiple directorates . |
| 29 | It turns out that a great deal of our conversational interaction involves the repetitious use of structure . |
| 30 | Above all , this kind of political romanticism fosters the view that future arrangements can be attained when conflict and dispute will no longer take place , having been replaced by eternal harmony . |