Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy .
2 In the absence of transactions costs for trading futures and assuming no risk aversion or preference , the current price of a futures contract for delivery at time T in a competitive market will equal today 's expectation of the spot price at time T , that is , F t = E ( S T ) .
3 A similar relationship holds between the prices of futures contracts with different delivery months : where P f 1 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 1 , P f 2 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 2 ( T 1 < T 2 ) .
4 A similar relationship holds between the prices of futures contracts with different delivery months : where P f 1 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 1 , P f 2 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 2 ( T 1 < T 2 ) .
5 In other words , the current futures price will equal the market average expectation of the future spot price ; i.e. , , where P f = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T , P S T = spot price in year T , E ( ) = market average expectations operator based on all current information .
6 In 1975 it launched the world 's first interest rate futures contract on Government National Mortgage Association ( GNMA ) mortgage backed certificates .
7 Traditionally , these patterns repeat to infinity ; Makhoul sometimes underlines this by not filling in some areas completely , as if the picture could be carried on indefinitely .
8 Traditionally , these patterns repeat to infinity .
9 The characteristics of these adjectives correspond to occurrence in the underlined position of the structure in ( 21 ) where the verb and the adjective are immediately bound together to form a complex property-nucleus which then enters into construction with the object : ( 21 )
10 The views correspond to relative versus absolute wealth reduction and the implied rates can be seen from Table 12–6 and guessed easily .
11 In the end , John Torode 's attitudes bring into question the very purpose of law .
12 Not only does the pattern of young people 's activities change over time , it also changes as they age .
13 Lele men who have produced sons and daughters are allowed to join the pangolin club , whose rituals concentrate upon fertility and success in hunting .
14 For instance , genes coding the proteins known as fibrinopeptides change in evolution at a rate that closely approximates the basic mutation rate .
15 Left of centre policies alternate with right of centre policies violently , rapidly , and on the basis of ideological considerations alone unrelated to the " real " needs of the situation .
16 The fact that small groups tend of necessity to comprise a membership of close kin favours the occurrence of kin selection and hence a high probability that cooperative behaviour will evolve .
17 For example , while the present data show how soft constraints affect preference ( and thus the state of the comprehension system ) , they can not address the question of how the preferences develop over time on reading a stimulus sentence .
18 And the birds suffer in cold , wet weather , becoming chilled or , in the extreme conditions of last winter , even frostbitten .
19 However , it is important to keep a close eye on your skin to see if any moles change in size or shape , in which case you should seek medical advice .
20 So little bone and teeth remain in buzzard and red kite pellets after digestion , even though prey is known to have been ingested whole , that usable samples are not produced .
21 On almost any evening in central and southern Malaysia barn owls congregate after hunting at favoured spots , and do not disperse again until after dawn .
22 Since sexuality is so deeply inbuilt in us , it is there from the beginning and only its manifestations change from infancy to old age .
23 At least such is the picture presented us by biologists whose political sympathies and social attitudes tend towards liberalism and socialism .
24 The icons change from level to level , but the effect remains the same .
25 Parkin secondly criticises the use which functionalists make of evidence which seems to indicate a consensus about the prestige ranking of occupations .
26 Proviso 3 is intended to apply to situations where Local Authorities insist on work being carried out on parts of the property not even damaged , as can occur in the case of listed buildings .
27 Symmetry selection rules correspond to symmetry requirements that for a forbidden band , must be zero , at least at the equilibrium configuration , where Q is zero .
28 Ideologies change in response to material circumstances and needs and the 1970 rock/pop shift was not just the result of some random play of stars and influences .
29 By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications .
30 But it also , to a greater extent , relates to content as well : for example , the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 effectively determines how local authorities account for capital expenditure .
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