Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | T n regions are not affected by the antibiotic and that the major cleavage products correspond to the two GC steps . |
| 4 | All cases correspond to an initial kinetic energy at h=100 km of 15Mton . |
| 5 | Sub-panels and writers ' groups report to the vertical panel and the whole is co-ordinated by the Institute 's professional board . |
| 6 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |
| 7 | These cavities correspond to the seven chakras or energy centres in the human entity . |
| 8 | The anatomical points used are vital and specific combinations correspond to the particular ailments . |
| 9 | Therefore although both proteins bind to the same site , the details of their structural interactions must differ . |
| 10 | The cupola and pendentives descend to the great flat sides , pierced by semi-circular headed windows and the arcades below . |
| 11 | The case roles have been modified since Fillmore 's original definition to include restrictions such as these , but the restriction lists grow to an interminable length and the technique is still unable to recognise that two expressions ( e.g. ’ the woman ’ and ’ she ’ ) may refer to the same individual . |
| 12 | Most animals react to a short sudden noise by focusing all their senses to find the source . |
| 13 | Some fungi succumb to the first heavy frosts , but there are others which seem to thrive in cold , wet weather . |
| 14 | So how will Bill and his fellow dissidents react to a presidential team who can spell the name of major vegetables ? |
| 15 | A sparse population — about 1,500 — and a dream-like absence of speed boats and motor cars conspire to a remarkable silence and calm . |
| 16 | Let us now see how readers react to the real thing . |
| 17 | Now one of the tall windows on the front room stands open to the warm evening air , but there is nothing to be made out in the darkness of the room beyond . |
| 18 | These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing . |
| 19 | As our eyes open to the perilous state of the world , it is hardly surprising that so many sensible people are turning instinctively to the land and looking for smallholdings . |
| 20 | While there can be no objection in principle to allowing foreigners access to the English courts , it is doubtful whether they should be permitted to recover damages for defamatory words which may freely circulate in the country where the plaintiff 's reputation would be most affected . |
| 21 | Having stressed the importance of reducing as far as possible the number of permissible reasons for refusal , the authors refer to the cited ground , which they admit has no precedent in international agreements on judicial assistance . |
| 22 | The decision followed strong reactions by the US administration and the UN to an incident earlier in the day , when Iraq troops had fired shots in the air allegedly to deny UN inspectors access to a nuclear weapons site , which was itself the culmination of a series of such refusals by Iraq . |
| 23 | All sequences refer to the non-template strand , with the numbering referring to the transcript length from the -1 site of each promoter ( since initiation of transcription was forced to commence from the -1 position by high levels of GpA and ApU for the UV5 and N25 promoters , respectively ) . |
| 24 | At about eight-thirty , headlights scallop out the darkness and the brakes squeak to a tired and worked stop . |
| 25 | The implications of its absence in animals permeate to the very heart of our everyday talk about them . |
| 26 | It can be seen that these two main goals overlap to a considerable extent , but that emphasis for the end-user lies within a subject area and is therefore closely dependent on subject knowledge , whereas emphasis for the intermediary lies on breadth of knowledge — on the coverage and organization of many databases and the operation of a number of processing systems . |
| 27 | There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present . |
| 28 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 29 | The list of species is growing as more and more animals adapt to the urban commons . |
| 30 | If the prefaces strike a sombre note , the entries go to the other extreme by being blandly reassuring and avoiding excessive detail . |