Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literary texts can be seen acting as metaphors for features the skilled ( shamanistic perhaps ? ) reader of the cultural text discerns and whose significances to the larger whole are suggestively indicated . |
| 2 | The attitudes of authors of stories the young read or hear , whether prejudiced or condescending or exaggeratedly ‘ socially aware ’ , are readily perceived and are influential , even when they are half hidden . |
| 3 | In graphical environments like Windows the whole screen is a colour bitmap image and any changes force the system to redraw either part or all of that image . |
| 4 | Under liquid banks will have insufficient liquidity to meet demands on deposits the next day . |
| 5 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 6 | What he would n't have done is gone out and bought the girl loads of flowers the next morning and then get caught by me doing it . |
| 7 | Because there are more short gaps than long gaps between vehicles the Gaussian probability distribution is not used to approximate the distribution of time gaps between vehicles . |
| 8 | A somewhat similar device , conceived by Hanson-Lowe ( 1935 ) , was the clinographic curve , which transformed an area such as that shown in Fig. 9.1 5A into that shown in Fig. 9.1 5B keeping the areas between contours the same . |
| 9 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 10 | Unlike O. ostertagi in calves the arrested stages of the common sheep nematodes are susceptible to thiabendazole and levamisole . |
| 11 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 12 | During three days of talks the Japanese chief negotiator , Noboru Nakahira , reiterated Japan 's position that there could be no normalization of ties until North Korea signed the nuclear safeguards accord ( NSA ) with the International Atomic Energy Agency and accepted inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 13 | If this structure gives any clues as to what kinds of words the missing ones are — if one can deduce from the structure that one missing word is a verb of action , another is an animate noun , and so on — the patient can insert very general content words by using such deductions ( words like did , person , thing ) . |
| 14 | AFTER more than nine years of negotiations the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the sea ( UNCLOS ) ended last December in Jamaica . |
| 15 | The Thing had said there were ways of growing plants under lights the same colour as the sun , in pots full of a sort of weak soup that helped plants grow . |
| 16 | In the days before shops the local people would stock up with goods not available at the weekly market , while those wishing to sell were able to dispose of surplus goods and livestock since the guild monopoly of local trade was suspended for the duration of the fair , so all buying and selling became concentrated at the fairs . |
| 17 | There is little overlap in the families of plants the different groups visit and , in those families , the flowers may look very different . |
| 18 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 19 | Randles , for example , found that while for observations of UAPs the average number of witnesses per sighting was about 2.6 , this number fell dramatically for abductions to an average of only 1.3 . |
| 20 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |
| 21 | The main elements of this configuration are : that there is an unconscious which affects actions in ways the conscious self can not understand without interpretative aids ; that sexuality is a key area of human conduct , and childhood a key phase of human biography ; that culture can be understood as a scene of interaction between unconscious motor forces and consciously established norms . |
| 22 | It seems clear that the Commission needs more staff and more powers to police the 1992 legislation successfully , and the ECJ may require increased powers to ensure that failure to comply with Community law leads to punishment sufficient to deter countries and companies from breaking the laws on free movement . |
| 23 | Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined . |
| 24 | Popular permissiveness was reflected in jury verdicts , and the repeal of obscenity laws in several European countries made it impossible for the authorities to police the incoming tide of eroticism . |
| 25 | In the meantime , the prices of goods the Third World imports from rich countries have continued to increase . |
| 26 | However , it may be indicative of increased competition that in the case of dollar issues for supranationals the average margin over US T-bonds in 1980 – 83 was 17 basis points while in 1984 – 87 it was – 11 basis points . |
| 27 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 28 | In the minds of men the Created God could , in the course of time , become personified as the immortal keeper of the good which ensures the continuing development of life in accordance with the desired pattern , but that personification should never be allowed to cloud the origins of the Created God , which came from life . |
| 29 | In the Admissibility of Hearings of Petitioners the International Court of Justice advised that oral hearings before the Committee for South West Africa could be granted to inhabitants of the territory to further the development of the international institution , and to render effective the General Assembly 's supervisory role . |
| 30 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |