Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 For both the TCR- α and TCR -β mutations , intercrosses between heterozygous mice gave rise to homozygous mutant mice at the expected frequency of 25% .
2 IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile .
3 In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work .
4 The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward .
5 ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or
6 ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies .
7 As the speed builds through 200 knots I feel the increased pitch sensitivity , my bottom lifting from the parachute pack as I press the twin pitots on this tiny nose further towards the gleaming layer of snowy stratocumulus below .
8 She records for Mute Records , who , as the the sales of Dépeche Mode show , are no slouches in distributing sounds to the masses .
9 There is a method of solving the cube , due to Morwen Thistlethwaite , my colleague at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London , that always restores the cube in at most 50 moves ( recently reduced from 52 ) and simple counting shows that some positions require at least 18 moves ( counting 180° turns as single moves ) or 21 right-angle turns .
10 The artist alienates her objets trouvés through clever arrangements and marriages of incompatible elements — as in the Lautreamontesque encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table .
11 For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football .
12 Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 .
13 But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps .
14 These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes .
15 Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ?
16 As he grows older he thinks about fewer things — he is now mainly occupied with the Common Market , the cold war and the Atlantic Alliance .
17 That 's all he ever thinks about these days . ’
18 On average a school pupil enrols for 2.2 modules in a year compared to 5.6 modules for an FE student .
19 ‘ She plays for higher stakes than the ones you can offer . ’
20 He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs .
21 On this example , Peter Dawson 's rendition of ‘ God Save The King ’ plays for 22 seconds .
22 This example plays for 3 minutes 10 seconds and weighs 2.2 kilograms .
23 Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries .
24 At a speed of 600 steps per second , for example , each of the three phases turns off 200 times per second and the average power dissipated in the freewheeling resistance at this speed is 200 x 0.04 W 8 W. The analysis of power losses at higher speeds becomes more involved , because the phase current at turn off is itself a function of operating speed .
25 It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century .
26 I do not have the statistics to hand , but they show how the number of smokers differs between socio-economic groups .
27 Furthermore , within New Zealand the death rate from sudden death infant syndrome differs between ethnic groups , with Maori rates substantially higher than those in non-Maori children ( 7.4 and 3.6/1000 live births respectively in 1986 ) .
28 We shall discuss it in a variety of ways throughout the chapter and consider how it differs between theoretical frameworks .
29 Local government expenditure also differs between local authorities : some spend more than others per head of population on particular services ( Foster et al .
30 The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards .
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