Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only can the more elongated whelks withdraw further into their shells , sometimes disappearing completely from view , but also the narrow aperture prevents a crab from obtaining a satisfactory purchase on the lip with its chela ( Vermeij , 1974 ; Hughes and Elner , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the odd buyer hits a software bug , well , bad luck , call us and we 'll talk you through it . |
| 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 | But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination . |
| 7 | An intact skin protects the internal structures from water loss and assists in temperature regulation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The oral shield has a rounded proximal edge with an almost straight distal edge or may be rounded triangular in shape . |
| 10 | The oral shield has a rounded proximal edge with a slight distal lobe . |
| 11 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 12 | The oral shield has an obtuse proximal angle , indented lateral sides and a convex distal edge ; the distal portion of the shield appears enlarged , extending approximately half-way to the disk edge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Conduction velocity is average , spatial summation within the receptive field is linear ( they have a null position usually ) , the receptive field has a centre-surround organization , and receptive fields are small . |
| 15 | This classic watch radiates the power of gold in its purest form : .999 fine . |
| 16 | Consequently due diligence forms a larger and more important part of share sales than of asset sales and in terms of legal costs can be an expensive process . |
| 17 | Paul Gascoigne , The Inside Story charts the life of the world 's most talked about footballer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At least method 1 is independent of the units of measurement ( providing they are the same in both years ) but the equal weight that attaches to all commodities can give a misleading figure — if the price of matches falls by 50% and the price of coal rises by 50% the combined index indicates no change . |
| 21 | The Reserve Winner receives a purple and white ribbon and moves up to the Winners if the Winners Dog is for any reason disqualified . |
| 22 | … and my right-hand Moderatus controls a power-fist for close quarter work , for scooping and crushing those miniscule Marines whose explosive bolts will be like stings … |
| 23 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 24 | Neat : the rich West gets the power ; the poor East gets the power stations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 27 | The pungent smell gives the impression of a powerful cleaning agent . |
| 28 | To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | New interpretations of archaeological discoveries suggest that the Garden of Eden and the lost civilisation of Atlantis are the true folk memories of our distant past and that the cudgel-wielding caveman has no more historical truth than do The Flintstones . |