Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good hash function will distribute values uniformly throughout a waiting array ( used for access ) called the hash table . |
| 2 | To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising . |
| 3 | One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . |
| 4 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 5 | The hall in which the manservant greeted them was theatrically lit from the Regency gothic windows of stained glass which threw the early evening sun in coloured patterns on to the black and white marbled floor . |
| 6 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 7 | Its activities enabled the Heseltine campaign to seize the initiative and sustain a momentum which kept its opponents mostly on the defensive . |
| 8 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
| 9 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 10 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |
| 11 | From the tablet a graphics program is called which allows the operator to insert chosen values on to the displayed graph axis . |
| 12 | But institutions right across the new unified higher education sector will be free to compete on fair terms , and the same will apply in Wales . |
| 13 | Let's see if England can win four Triple Crowns in a row and win six Five Nations titles outright in the next decade . |
| 14 | It handles all products right through the whole chain from hydrogen cyanide to ‘ Perspex ’ and ‘ Diakon ’ plastics and newer added-value materials such as ‘ Asterite ’ and ‘ Avron ’ . |
| 15 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 16 | One of the most important reasons for this is that the Latin American elites reacted quickly and in most cases effectively to the social and economic changes brought about by the industrialisation , urbanisation and immigration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 17 | The determination to move the party 's and public 's attention from internal splits on to the current political agenda was demonstrated in speeches last night by Mr Chalmers and a former SNP leader , Gordon Wilson , targeting the constitutional question . |
| 18 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 19 | His snowdrops were already wilting like wax candles in the warmth of his hand , and as he copied the mourners ahead of him and stood up , one flower slipped between his fingers on to the rust-coloured floor . |
| 20 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 21 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 22 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 23 | Take a holistic view of the business and manage operations effectively across the key functions ( e.g. Finance , Human Resources , Information Systems and Marketing ) |
| 24 | Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it . |
| 25 | He opened the door of a big airy room with views down to the great river itself . |
| 26 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 27 | But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle . |
| 28 | Is the Minister aware that when the Unionist party governed Northern Ireland it concentrated heavily on developing the roads only in the eastern part of Northern Ireland ? |
| 29 | We have assumed for simplicity that the public sector 's current spending of £5,000 million flows entirely into the industrial and commercial sector in return for goods and services . |
| 30 | And — oh , she also wanted — no , desired — to stroke his smiling face , to run the tips of her fingers gently along the dreadful scar to show that she loved every part of him , to … |