Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 2 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 3 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 5 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 6 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 7 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 8 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 9 | A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ . |
| 10 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 11 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 12 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 13 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 14 | Outside the press , groups developed in the 1970s and 1980s from several directions . |
| 15 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 16 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 17 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 18 | Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part . |
| 19 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 20 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 21 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 22 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 23 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 24 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 25 | Therefore we would expect a forward contract and a financial futures contract with the same specifications to have the same price . |
| 26 | The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading . |
| 27 | Alternatively , he could sell a futures contract at the current futures price and , at the end of T years , buy the asset in the cash market to deliver it into the futures market to fulfil the contract . |
| 28 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 29 | The establishment of the NIRC was a political act aimed at trying to contain trade union power within particular rules prescribed by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 30 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |