Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some advertise in the local papers — to my mind quite the most profitless form of contact or recruitment .
2 Some concentrate on the large-scale surface geometry model and structural analysis .
3 Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause .
4 ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’
5 The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially .
6 ‘ That may mean some shift in the regional balance of expenditure .
7 Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy .
8 But some depend on a specific view of science , notably that there are objective and timeless laws at work and that normative considerations are to be excluded .
9 Some circulate in the Arctic Ocean , others stream down the east Greenland or Labrador coasts and disperse widely in the north Atlantic Ocean , becoming a hazard to shipping .
10 Some consist of a simple bowl with a lip , over which the water trickles , while others come in sections of varying lengths and shapes which can be joined together to form complex arrangements .
11 Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) .
12 It may not be quite as easy as some assume in the developed world , either .
13 Few know of the hard and unremitting labour of editing he has always been prepared to do , and for which there is so often so little proper recognition .
14 Whilst most design theories concentrate on the various elements and their interconnection as previously discussed ( often referred to as the " anatomy of design " ) , only a few refer to the different weights these may have in different situations ( sometimes called the " morphology " ) .
15 What does all this imply for the feminist struggle around housing ?
16 Some comply with the lesser known TEMPEST specification which ensures the machine is electronically secure , and almost silent to the ever-present eavesdroppers .
17 In this case the message sent on the SWIFT system from the US bank to the UK bank is that your ( NOSTRO ) account has been credited by us with $10 000 , in return pass on this amount to the named beneficiary , the UK exporter .
18 In Britain most people who are in full-time contracted employment receive full pay for six months , followed by half pay for a further six months , if they have a serious illness or accident which prevents them from working .
19 Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine .
20 Only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks .
21 As The Economist pointed out , ‘ only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks ’ .
22 Some argue for an exhaustive definition of what is in effect a moral excuse .
23 Some apply for every in-service training course that is going .
24 Of the remaining 120 fabliaux recognized in the Nouveau Recueil Complet des Fabliaux , more than half exist in a single copy , and fewer than twenty of the more innocently titled fabliaux exist in four or more manuscript copies .
25 If it was , her children have a half share in the two properties .
26 I confess to not immediately grasping one reason for the cathedral 's decline ( ’ Pigeons can be kept off the facade by netting but few sink into the porous marble ’ ) .
27 Some specialise in the hard stuff like paving , fencing and ponds ; others deal with soft landscape — that 's the plants and the soil .
28 I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it .
29 Some relate to the present legal framework .
30 Some relate to the free-enterprise market nature of its economy which , superficially , resembles the state of affairs in Britain as described in Karl Marx 's Capital of 1867 — but modified here ( thanks to mass immigration from mainland China ) by , for instance , massive public housing investment .
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