Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dug-outs at some grounds have become chambers of horror , with visiting soccer bosses the sitting duck targets for verbal and , sometimes , physical abuse . |
| 2 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 3 | MDH builds the AH-64 Apache military gunship , and the MD500E , 530F and 520N NOTAR for the civilian market , and is developing the new-generation Explorer ( formerly MDX ) twin-engine commercial helicopter , which will fly at the end of this year . |
| 4 | The frequency of occurrence of each n-gram in a continuous stream of data constitutes the n-gram statistics of the data set . |
| 5 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 6 | The manager then splits the undisclosed £20,000 with his counterpart at the selling club or the player 's agent . |
| 7 | Because the Pope , according to Bernard and his friends , alone among all men had the ear of God , and God , it seems , thinks the more people down here on earth the better . |
| 8 | Table 8.2 defines the variables used in Table 8.3 , which displays the comparative data on company operations in the four countries . |
| 9 | The long button displays the underlying data form — in other words it lets you return to the form you initially filled in to create the slide . |
| 10 | displays the monitored statistics which are recorded for each dyeing . |
| 11 | Just remember that , in nature , what is well-pruned invariably produces the most fruit . |
| 12 | A spate of poor spawning years eventually produces the big fish period in the cycle . |
| 13 | The equally conservative nobles of Smolensk echoed Tula 's belief in the need for joint discussions with " representatives from other provinces ' , while the nobles of Tver " , one of the few gentry groups to espouse the cause of immediate emancipation rather than the conversion of serfs into temporarily obligated peasants , argued that the new laws had been botched , that " the reforms so urgently required can not be achieved by a bureaucratic order " , and that the " convocation of elected representatives from all the Russian land represents the only means for a satisfactory solution " . |
| 14 | The NUCPS , which together with the Civil and Public Servants Association , represents the 180 staff at Chester , has sent its response to the Government . |
| 15 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 16 | The desktop publishing market that has been exploited so effectively by Apple in recent months probably represents the top 20% of the market . |
| 17 | Where an officer wants to see what a new or unconsented discharge consists of , therefore , or where his own judgment suggests that a discharge may be polluting , he turns to his sample bucket , which offers the ultimate means for practical purposes of establishing the kind and degree of pollution . |
| 18 | The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied . |
| 19 | It is now suggested that the proposed Royal Infirmary hospital trust offers the best means of taking the plan forward . |
| 20 | A trip to Davis and Langdale is in order for anyone who loves the famous series of studies |
| 21 | Short-wave radio uses the 20–50 m band , medium wave covers the 190–550 m band while longwave uses the 1000–2000 m region . |
| 22 | This is a prestige train that covers the 500 km ( 312 miles ) in three hours . |
| 23 | The Siporax is only half submerged , so that a head of water never covers the biological media . |
| 24 | The following analysis therefore incorporates Townsend 's emphasis on the non-material aspects of poverty but , in addition , exposes the gender-specific dynamics of poverty . |
| 25 | intermediate orientation : the project manager supervises the functional staff . |
| 26 | Then , as now , the key person was what IBM calls the ‘ first-line manager ’ , the one who supervises the 8–10 people in a basic working group . |
| 27 | Headquarter Company contains the administrative staff of the battalion : clerks , cooks , drivers , mechanics , tailors , storemen and so on . |
| 28 | Digests of YAC DNA , probed with KOX2 , show that yA4C5 contains the 4.0 kb EcoRI fragment from the ZNF11A locus , while yA136E7 contains the 1.75 kb EcoRI fragment corresponding to ZNF11B ( Figure 1b ) . |
| 29 | Digests of YAC DNA , probed with KOX2 , show that yA4C5 contains the 4.0 kb EcoRI fragment from the ZNF11A locus , while yA136E7 contains the 1.75 kb EcoRI fragment corresponding to ZNF11B ( Figure 1b ) . |
| 30 | Clone H1 42 contains the 700 bp upstream from the transcription start point , cloned into the plasmid Bluescript ( 15 ) . |