Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 2 | The approach to these projects differs from the earlier generation of higher cost ventures . |
| 3 | The theory of integrative levels emerged , the essence being that the world of entities evolves from the simple towards the complex by an accumulation of properties or influences from the environment . |
| 4 | Most of the money spent in capital cases goes towards the litigation , which can take over a decade before all the avenues of appeal have been exhausted . |
| 5 | Whether the increase in comparatively recent times points to a third population is a subject for Chapter 8 . |
| 6 | The originality of so much of Ashton 's and MacMillan 's choreography fur classical ballets lies in the way they follow the basic principles and rules in order to create an infinite variety of enchaînements from the traditional vocabulary of steps , and yet discard the conventions . |
| 7 | And since the blindness and brutality recorded in those accounts has in no wise disappeared from human society , have we not a crucified God still ? |
| 8 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 9 | Each of these activities adds to the costs incurred . |
| 10 | According to Hiro , ‘ the explanation of this difference of attitudes lies in the variation between the home environment of the Asian and English children . |
| 11 | For the genealogist , however , the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors . |
| 12 | The difference in the various authorities lies in the determinations as to what constitutes compulsion or duress . |
| 13 | A granite memorial to these Groups stands at the end of the former main runway . |
| 14 | Accountability in committee meetings lies with the whole membership and not with particular individuals . |
| 15 | Furthermore , it is now recognised that in learning language , children are doing far more than acquiring the rules of grammar and it may be that the key to the mastery of abstract grammatical rules lies in the socially mediated learning of functional language skills ( Bruner 1983 ; Halliday 1975 ; Wells 1981 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ The crux of military operations lies in the pretence of accommodating one 's self to the designs of the enemy . ’ |
| 17 | One possible area of conflict of ideas and values lies in the assumption that we are either rural or urban in orientation . |
| 18 | The systematic blurring of the lines between information , entertainment , and promotion of products lies at the heart of this practice . |
| 19 | THE secret of ANTA 's success with its tartan products lies in a combination of traditional design with simple shapes . |
| 20 | However , several recent studies have shown that the ability to reason about and talk about epistemic states develops before the age of five years ( Abbeduto and Rosenberg , 1985 ; Perner and Leekam , 1986 ; Shatz et et al . , |
| 21 | speaks at masses or meetings writes for the newsletter |
| 22 | If one of the parties agrees with the expert and the other does not , that other party may , depending on the circumstances , be in breach of the contract to refer the matter to an expert which carries with it an obligation to follow directions issued by the expert : see the example at 11.5.3 . |
| 23 | 7.1 Each of the Parties agrees during the term of this Agreement not to participate in any project which competes with the Project or which is designed to fulfil the same or similar objects . |
| 24 | A flight of steps goes up the left-hand side of the gallery . |
| 25 | If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man … |
| 26 | The emphasis on culture and the attendant imagery of the nation composed of symmetrical family units contributes to a metaphysics of Britishness which has acquired racial referents . |
| 27 | ( Research by Lynda Grattan and Tim Morris on effective succession planning in organizations points to the considerable importance of feedback to men and women early in their careers . |
| 28 | The performance of the homes sits in the Orlando area - Davenport Glen and Chatham Park — exceeded our expectations , whilst Monterey in Dade County produced a range of homes which appealed very strongly to local residents including some whose motivation to purchase had been prompted by the hurricane while swept through southern Florida last year . |
| 29 | In some instances the term equal opportunities refers to the attainments of girls , sometimes to gender differentiation in assessment , in some instances to both boys and girls , and occasionally to ethnic minority pupils … |
| 30 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |