Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Special needs groups concentrate on the disabled . |
| 6 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Again such taxes discriminate against the poor because everyone must pay the same regardless of their actual wealth . |
| 9 | The process only terminates when no more entities or groups remain in the temporary work layers . |
| 10 | Look carefully to see how the patterns change in the different streets and squares . |
| 11 | Among seven species of fruit pigeons in tropical Queensland , the diets of the birds change with the seasonal fruits , each species with a different suite of plant species . |
| 12 | My own preferences tend toward the simple and straightforward as far as switching is concerned . |
| 13 | The question which these cases raise concerning the proper forum for protecting the employment rights of government employees has generated a large volume of litigation , and the resulting law is complex and unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | Beginners concentrate on the basic four : the front kick , the side kick , the back kick and , perhaps the most powerful of all , the roundhouse kick . |
| 15 | Sub-panels and writers ' groups report to the vertical panel and the whole is co-ordinated by the Institute 's professional board . |
| 16 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 17 | In lively talk with friends we all continually break the rules appropriate for the written form , and Mr Baker on the radio was no exception . |
| 18 | Experts say with the right help , the problems are easy to overcome ; both mother and child benefit . |
| 19 | and does n't smile like other people — his teeth pose in the nude |
| 20 | Some of the local hard cases delight in the sadistic pleasure of ousting strangers by continually watering the stones , Relief waits outside , but it is a masochistic type of relief — icy-fresh river water that is cold beyond belief . |
| 21 | Just time for a few hours sleep before the early morning call in the biggest beds you have ever seen . |
| 22 | an agreed departmental policy on the sizes of teaching groups appropriate for the different modes of teaching used in different subject areas and the provision of sufficient staff hours for the modules to be taught in these ways ; |
| 23 | Japan 's chip-makers head for the good life |
| 24 | If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents . |
| 25 | The anatomical points used are vital and specific combinations correspond to the particular ailments . |
| 26 | The Lakes sit astride the US-Canadian frontier , forming the world 's largest body of fresh water . |
| 27 | Chon criticized Nakahira 's calls for North Korea to resume inter-Korean talks and to sign unconditionally a nuclear safeguards accord with the International Atomic Energy Agency , saying that this constituted interference in North Korean affairs and " artificial obstacles " to the normalization of relations . |
| 28 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 29 | In the following , for example , the speakers alternate between the main topic of the aerobics and the lesser topic of the missing watch : |
| 30 | Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’ |