Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
| 11 | Special needs groups concentrate on the disabled . |
| 12 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 13 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |
| 14 | SMALL BIRDS suffer from a lifelong fear of birds of prey , especially owls . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | T n regions are not affected by the antibiotic and that the major cleavage products correspond to the two GC steps . |
| 18 | It 's not obvious a priori whether all or any pair of these projects converge on a single set of structures . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Again such taxes discriminate against the poor because everyone must pay the same regardless of their actual wealth . |
| 21 | Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | On-shore activities make for a lively and exhilarating festival . |
| 25 | AT&T Co has signed an agreement with the People 's Republic of China allowing it to supply personal telecommunications products with manufacturing partner S Megga International Holdings Ltd 's S Megga Telecommunications Ltd unit : the two have a memorandum of understanding with the China National Posts & Telecommunications Industry Corp to market and distribute AT&T-brand telephones , facsimile machines and other consumer items through hundreds of mainland outlets ; consumer products account for an estimated 20% of a total Chinese telecommunications market of $7,000m a year . |
| 26 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 27 | According to chairman Aleksandr Rozhin , the commission has come to the conclusion that the Gallery 's foreign trade activities suffer from an amateur approach . |
| 28 | The process only terminates when no more entities or groups remain in the temporary work layers . |
| 29 | But weather patterns change in a haphazard , inconsistent way . |
| 30 | Look carefully to see how the patterns change in the different streets and squares . |