Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What " the " does is to tell the reader that what the noun phrase names is something ( or belongs to a group of things ) which is already familiar to the reader . |
| 2 | The closure of the Talbot works in Linwood in Scotland , announced in February 1981 , with its resulting localised mass unemployment , is a pointed reminded of the limitations of cheap loans or grants as a means of maintaining the allegiance of capitalist enterprises to given investment projects . |
| 3 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 4 | It is not unlikely either that the formation of the desire will be closely linked with current experiences and will therefore probably be fulfilled by providing more of whatever is salient in the context — porridge , or rides in a plastic tub , etc . |
| 5 | The operator syllable implies ( or specifies in a subfield ) how many syllables are required for the instruction . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that trespass is actionable per se , there is some authority to the effect that trespass to goods requires proof of some damage or asportation but the general view of textbook writers is to the contrary and there must be many instances where , if mere touching of objects like waxworks or exhibits in a gallery or museum be not trespass , their possessor would be without remedy . |
| 7 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 8 | If a translation is directly imposed on the model , or occurs as a result of the rotation not taking place about the attachment point , the program completes the rotation and then re-positions the model back on to the point of association . |
| 9 | Their river habitat east of Quebec city has become a chemical soup of pollutants which probably causes a failure of their immune system or leads to a variety of other diseases such as bladder and other cancers , hepatitis , and perforated ulcers . |
| 10 | The consequences for some nations or subgroups in a population of being without access to environmental data or the tools for analysing them while others have such access are potentially profound — as the European Commission has recognized in issuing a directive on public access to environmental data ( CEC 1990d ) — yet space limitations have also precluded their discussion . |
| 11 | On receipt of the Change Request Form the Development Manager reviews the Change Request or arranges for a member of the Development Team to review the Change Request . |
| 12 | Use cheques or postal orders , and keep stubs or counterfoils as a record of payment |
| 13 | SELECT and PROJECT statements are important because many queries will require information from only some of the tuples or attributes in a relation . |
| 14 | The spiritual area is concerned with everything in human knowledge or experience that is connected with or derives from a sense of God or of gods . |
| 15 | Note that this chart is slightly different from that used for chariots because it is much harder to hit the crew or warhorses on a War Wagon because of the size of the tower . |
| 16 | A contemporary dishonest bill ordinarily involves not an exorbitant disclaimer ( although there are plenty of these disclaimers still in use ) , but a shipment that does not take place , or a vessel that does not exist or disappears without a trace after loading . |
| 17 | Well I do n't know what does for a living or does for a living . |
| 18 | The reader should now consider the use of salt , water or dates as a medium of exchange , and list advantages as well as disadvantages . |
| 19 | When the loop is complete the model zooms wildly or comes to a stop in a nose high attitude . |
| 20 | The problem , people told me , was that there were barely any buses or trains within a ten-mile radius of Falmouth unless it was the holiday season . |
| 21 | Patients or controls with a history of diseases in which hyposplenism has been reported were excluded ( coeliac disease , inflammatory bowel disease , thyrotoxicosis , rheumatoid arthritis and connective tissue diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus ) . |
| 22 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 23 | The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor . |
| 24 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 25 | Instead of fleeing , like most small birds approached this closely , the cut-throat sits firm and hisses like a snake . |
| 26 | The word ‘ spiritual ’ , for the purpose of the Alternative Religion , has been defined above and refers to a characteristic of developed human life . |
| 27 | The Archway Studio is just outside St Ives and belongs to a woman painter called Eileen Rich . |
| 28 | For the purposes of the Code , this expression includes takeover and merger transactions ( including reverse takeovers ) , partial offers , Court Schemes and offers by a parent company for shares in a subsidiary . |
| 29 | It has up to 64 input-output channels , supports TCP/IP and Ethernet , has C++ , C , and Fortran libraries with VAX extensions , supports Oracle in a client-server environment and fits in a deskside cabinet 29″ by 18″ by 30″ . |
| 30 | and goes on a course where everybody starts |