Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This response represents the isomorphic struggle to resolve meaning , at the level of metaphor . |
| 2 | The contrast encourages the common view that Japan never alters . |
| 3 | ‘ Ethical ’ is to be preferred to ‘ moral ’ because to speak of ‘ moral positivism ’ implies that the role of law is simply to apply the moral rules of society , whereas the theory is that law deals with conflict in a way which at least in part transcends the moral disagreements endemic in societies of men or of nations . |
| 4 | It is likely that our case represents the sporadic type of the disorder , in the absence of any family history . |
| 5 | I suspect the misinterpretation represents the deep longing that most humans have to get inside the heads of other animals . |
| 6 | This description fits the observable characteristics and progress of the disease , although it might be more appropriate to substitute the social term " " sensitivity " " for the strictly clinical term " allergy " . |
| 7 | Her position is that the person who calls on Osiris or Krishna or Buddha with a pure heart receives the Holy Spirit within his own tradition and not by abandoning it for another . |
| 8 | The lower field displays the current page number of this mail message . |
| 9 | A separate contract involves the early removal of the contents of tar tanks discovered on the site . |
| 10 | The 1st oboe plays the top line in the preceding four bars , and gives place to the 1st clarinet on reaching the aforesaid high F. Note the smooth movement of the horns in the chord-passage , and the introduction of the 2nd clarinet on the low E to complete the harmony at the sixth bar from the end . |
| 11 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 12 | One particularly interesting case involves the so-called B I and B II conformations which have been observed crystallographically within B-DNA oligomers ( 1,2 ) . |
| 13 | Factory-farming makes pollution , excessive meat-eating upsets the ecological balance , trapping and hunting can injure habitat , and so on . |
| 14 | This synkinematic , footwall intrusive suite constitutes the northeastern part of South Mountains and includes ( from oldest to youngest ) South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) . |
| 15 | A short walk near the university produces the dispiriting impression that urban life in Africa is hopeless . |
| 16 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 17 | A computer separates the different colours . |
| 18 | In fact the Central Statistical Office 's view is that the published deficit overstates the real level by no more than £2bn or £3bn . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most interesting theory states that the physical door-hanging represents the spiritual doorway to the Islamic heaven , which has four gardens at its innermost core . |
| 20 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 21 | David Kane 's witty and incisive play evokes the decadent sensuality of the period . |
| 22 | This mixture of anarchy , looseness-of-link and contingency encourages the discrete offering of management skills which will help the student to cope with the four or five separable outcomes of the legislative changes of the late 1980s . |
| 23 | The left foot represents the left side of the body and the right … well I 'll leave you to work that one out ! |
| 24 | Turning now to the manic alternative to depression , we find that in welfare totalitarianisms periodic alcoholic intoxication constitutes the externalized equivalent of the purely psychic state of intoxication which is produced by internal means in the manic individual . |
| 25 | Coupling the laser to the ICP mass spectrometer offers the exciting prospect of obtaining much greater information on the composition of fluid inclusions . |
| 26 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 27 | A chance hearing of the Lord 's Prayer produces the following conversation : Child : What 's heaven ? |
| 28 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 29 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 30 | This technique records the exact points in the sentence which the reader fixates , and the time of each fixation . |