Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 32 | Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost . |
| 33 | Your writer refers to the recent agreement between BBC Enterprises and talent unions to allow release of BBC material featuring those union members , on the BBC Video label , for sale or rental to the public , for home use . |
| 34 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 35 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 36 | The new provision differs from the old in one significant way , by altering the terminology in which the Act is couched from the senior police officer 's ‘ opinion ’ that he is unable to prevent the serious public disorder to ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the imposition of conditions will not enable him to preserve order . |
| 37 | A mock trial differs from a moot in that it is a mock jury-trial , with jury and witnesses , not an argument on law . |
| 38 | Life for you right now is a crossroads : one direction points to the safe , secure and conventional , the other to the road less travelled , signifying the unexplored . |
| 39 | But at least some of the meaning of blackbird belongs to the whole complex , and is not attributable to either black — or bird separately ; so , when black is replaced , this additional meaning is lost , along with ‘ black ’ . |
| 40 | It states that not using a lawyer would save you money initially but that it could be a false economy , particularly if your case goes to the High Court , where your opponent will almost certainly have a solicitor and a barrister . |
| 41 | of our aid budget goes to the African continent . |
| 42 | I would guess quite a bit of money goes into the local economy . |
| 43 | Drivers of Italian heavy goods vehicles began a blockade of customs posts at the border with Austria on Sept. 13 , 1989 , causing tailbacks of several thousand lorries at the Brenner Pass and other crossing points over the next eight days . |
| 44 | He said similar numbers had crossed farther north at Bostan and Mehran , and thousands more at minor crossing points along the rugged frontier . |
| 45 | One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless , leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics . |
| 46 | By using arcs struck about the assembly points and passing through the other attachment points on the intermediate link , the member may be Positioned initially to a chosen point on the locus of point P ( see Figure 7.42 ) and then rotated to generate an attachment point on the locus of point Q ( link C ) . |
| 47 | In prescribing that around 70 percent of the reduced funding goes to the regional tourist boards in England , Government is cutting their funds in real terms . |
| 48 | The description refers to the old buildings that were burnt down in 1834 ( see FIRE WHICH DESTROYED PARLIAMENT ) . |
| 49 | Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output . |
| 50 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 51 | A technique refers to the mechanical or agronomic method applied , and in any one conservation project there may a considerable variety . |
| 52 | The building sits on a awkward site on the left bank of the Seine . |
| 53 | The coin belongs to the Persian period , bears the inscription " Judaea " ( YHD ) , and shows a figure on a winged throne or on a chariot : this figure apparently confronts a Dionysiac mask ( B. Kanael , The Biblical Archaeologist 26 ( 1963 ) , 40 and fig. 2 ) . |
| 54 | Basic to the idea of a level is the implication that a higher level goes beyond a lower level by including it , gathering it up and building on it . |
| 55 | Hegemony evolves in an extensive but temporary form , equilibrium is only relative . |
| 56 | Shadows merge into the snow ; the woodcut turns into a shadowy chalk drawing . |
| 57 | Printing plays in a cheap , unbound , quarto format indicates that the drama was commonly perceived as on the same standing as almanacs , joke books , pamphlets , and other popular writing which appeared in the same form . |
| 58 | Affirmative assessment starts from a basic belief that human beings are purposeful beings who have intentions which guide their behaviour . |
| 59 | The fight starts with an overhead view of the ring . |
| 60 | A similar area rich in both environmental and archaeological heritage lies over the Guatemalan frontier . |