Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [prep] the [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 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 4 | The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially . |
| 5 | ‘ That may mean some shift in the regional balance of expenditure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It may not be quite as easy as some assume in the developed world , either . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " ) . |
| 12 | What does all this imply for the feminist struggle around housing ? |
| 13 | Some comply with the lesser known TEMPEST specification which ensures the machine is electronically secure , and almost silent to the ever-present eavesdroppers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine . |
| 16 | Only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | If it was , her children have a half share in the two properties . |
| 19 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 20 | Some specialise in the hard stuff like paving , fencing and ponds ; others deal with soft landscape — that 's the plants and the soil . |
| 21 | I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it . |
| 22 | Some relate to the present legal framework . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since then General Electric has paid $150million for a half stake in the Hungarian light bulb manufacturer Tunsgram and General Motors has decided to build an engine plant there . |
| 25 | The latter has the organisation , the marketing skill and the backing to offer viable meetings , but these centre on the affluent conurbations and are not therefore always accessible to members . |
| 26 | These correspond to the data-analysis tools of classical statistics described in most statistics text-books , but are recommended by Tukey for use only when an explicit hypothesis has been formulated . |
| 27 | These correspond to the following descriptive sites : caecum ; proximal ascending colon ; distal ascending colon ; proximal transverse colon ; distal transverse colon ; proximal descending colon ; distal descending colon ; sigmoid colon ; rectum . |
| 28 | These suffer from the further problem of treating all deprivation as relative and scaling all measures to the same variance ( as is also done for the index of an ‘ area 's social conditions ’ used in the assessment of GRE ) . |
| 29 | None of these appear on the inexhaustive list published by Lars Gunnar Andersson and Peter Trudgill . |
| 30 | The television department in an advertising agency is responsible for the process of turning the creative team 's ideas , scripts and storyboards into finished TV or radio commercials and ensuring these appear on the right channel at the right time on the right day . |