Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will not reveal any plans to demolish the house next door and erect a block of flats in its place . |
| 2 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 3 | Away from these pockets of excitement , business was relatively quiet and dealers found themselves frustrated in attempts to drive the FT-SE 100 index convincingly beyond the 2600 level . |
| 4 | When the team left for Cameroon they had spent several months gathering the equipment necessary for their 4 weeks of planned project activity . |
| 5 | A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon and they had a perfect view of the defence giving away two first half goals and Mitch Cook missing a penalty in the second . |
| 6 | In the UK brokers can execute smaller trades using the SEAQ Automatic Execution Facility ( SAEF ) at the best price available on SEAQ . |
| 7 | When industrial disputes arose the bill first prescribed direct talks between workers and management , followed in the event of a breakdown in these talks by mediation for up to 14 days by an independent arbitration ; if mediation failed a strike could then be called subject to the strike organizers ' giving seven day 's notice to management . |
| 8 | Its moisturising crease-resistant formulations make the range great for older or dryer skins . |
| 9 | As one , they stopped paddling , crouching low , eyes quartering the area adjacent to their part of the boat , unsure of its direction . |
| 10 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 11 | These channels make the membrane permeable to ions or molecules , which can then enter the cell and act as signals for the initiation of the biochemical cascades which ultimately lead , in ways that I shall describe in the next chapter , to the synthesis of new synaptic membrane components and hence to synaptic remodelling . |
| 12 | These are pop visionaries dredging the trash aesthetic and ‘ Storm ’ is completely worthy of your attention . |
| 13 | These are pop visionaries dredging the trash aesthetic and ‘ Storm ’ is completely worthy of your attention . |
| 14 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says the Ministry now has only three months to find the person responsible and mount a prosecution . |
| 15 | Only three of the muster books provide the information necessary to relate assessed wealth to status and occupational groups . |
| 16 | It seemed that most villagers had turned out to welcome their hero as more than 100 cars filled the field adjacent to Gaselee 's Saxon Lodge Stables . |
| 17 | The re-cycled bricks give the brand new pond a pre-aged look . |
| 18 | Whether it is an ambition to help Watsonians to win the Division One title or Scotland to win another Grand Slam or the next World Cup , you have to have in mind just what you seek to achieve . |
| 19 | Plasmids used in this experiment ; the 1.95 kb N-Oct 3 cDNA is depicted as a black bar flanked by EcoR1 sites ; the white open bar indicates coding sequences ; The black POU box represents the sequences encoding the DNA binding domain ; arrows point to translation initiation and stop sites ; relevant restriction sites for the construction of deletions are shown ; the broken line and the ( A ) n-symbol indicate external splice and polyadenylation signals , respectively ; T3 symbolizes the T3 RNA polymerase promoter of a bluescript plasmid ; CMV symbolizes the CMV enhancer/promoter of the mammalian expression vector pEVRF0 [ 19 ] . |
| 20 | However , speakers often do not provide such explicit guidelines to help the analyst select chunks of discourse for study . |
| 21 | John , Mark 's brothers sharing the money four ways . |
| 22 | Mountain View , California-based , Pyramid Technology Corp has introduced Valence Cluster , the first fruits of its co-development with Oracle Corp ( UX No 423 ) , to provide clustering capabilities for its MIServer and ES range of servers supporting the Oracle 7 Parallel Server option database . |
| 23 | ‘ I crawl around on my knees getting the focus right . |
| 24 | One of his training runs over a mile was timed at 4 minutes 9.8 seconds but the absence of opposition and official timekeepers rendered the mark unofficial . |
| 25 | The annual catalogue of Her Majesty 's Stationery Office covers both parliamentary and non-parliamentary publications and there are also monthly and even daily lists to keep the information fresh , as well as sectional lists on particular governmental areas . |
| 26 | In some cases , plural continuations were complex in that constructions included the term both , as in Both … , |
| 27 | Because they are vertical these looms allow the weaver easy access to every point across the width of the rug , and it is possible to produce much wider rugs . |
| 28 | It is common in rent review for reasons to be available only if the parties pay the expert higher fees . |
| 29 | We should always consume sufficient calories to keep the metabolism buoyant . |
| 30 | Gilts rose half a point as the prospect for interest rates continued to brighten , while a broadly-based advance in equities took the FTSE 100 index up 18.6 points to 2,360.7 . |