Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Therefore we would expect a forward contract and a financial futures contract with the same specifications to have the same price .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design
10 She watched her bare toe rub against the whitened concrete of the balcony .
11 Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules .
12 There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills .
13 Special needs groups concentrate on the disabled .
14 At least two reasons account for the latter .
15 His political goals were quite contrasting — Weber had no objection to seeing his native Germany develop as a capitalist state overseen by a parliament .
16 US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert .
17 Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle .
18 SMALL BIRDS suffer from a lifelong fear of birds of prey , especially owls .
19 Texts and objects combine in a new installation by Marlene McCarthy at Metro Pictures until 27 March and new paintings featuring over-sized calligraphic texts figure in Linda Daniel 's new work at Jose Freire Fine Arts , until 21 March .
20 Figure 1e shows iron-bleomycin cleavage of the insert [ ( TAA ) 4 CG(TTA) 4 ] 2 in which the only cleavage products correspond to the central GT steps .
21 T n regions are not affected by the antibiotic and that the major cleavage products correspond to the two GC steps .
22 It 's not obvious a priori whether all or any pair of these projects converge on a single set of structures .
23 For our part , we have learnt a considerable amount about the world beyond school , made many friends , and seen our school and its curriculum develop in a positive healthy way .
24 A second explanation is in terms of the frustrations that men of the disadvantaged classes and ethnic groups suffer in a class-based and racist society .
25 Again such taxes discriminate against the poor because everyone must pay the same regardless of their actual wealth .
26 Did the local fourteenth-century name Upehull develop into the sixteenth-century Upsall and the nineteenth-century Upshall ?
27 Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure .
28 Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations 146 , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) .
29 Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) .
30 On-shore activities make for a lively and exhilarating festival .
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