Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile doubts about the private banks ' ability to cope caused mounting worries . |
2 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
3 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
4 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
5 | Individual gas supplies were not provided in the services included in the rebuilding , partly because of the difficulties in projecting the resultant chimneys and flues through the external surfaces — the appearance of which was closely watched by officials of English Heritage . |
6 | Less than a second elapses between the two stages . |
7 | This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique . |
8 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
9 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
10 | he 's he 's er , she 's goes for the rich guys you see . |
11 | That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old ! |
12 | Charlie Swan rides Novello Allegro and also Castlina , a recent Navan winner who goes for the three miles handicap hurdle on the opening day . |
13 | Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes . |
14 | As a starting point I want to examine some of the basic meeting points between the two communities — business and education — and some of their significant differences . |
15 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
16 | The socialists had concentrated — in their aim for a better world — on the contradiction points between the social relations of production and the productive forces and ignored those between human production and the natural world . |
17 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
18 | They huddle sensibly together in heaps of dirty wool while the pitiless wind shifts and howls between the shivering trees or flaps with daemonic aggression at the corrugated sheets of the sheds , outhouses and garages along the village road . |
19 | Their small church membership of around 10,000 hides the wider appeal Paisleyite politics has for the small businessmen and farmers of protestant Ulster . |
20 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what plans he has for the European arts festival ; and if he will make a statement . |
21 | To ask the Minister for the Arts , what plans he has for the European arts festival ; — |
22 | It specifies for the managing adults when to give a lot of positive attention , and precisely the behaviour they are aiming to reinforce . |
23 | The first meeting of the Joint Committee of Experts of Bangladesh and India agreed in New Delhi on Nov. 20 to resume negotiations on sharing river waters between the two countries [ see also p. 38913 ] . |
24 | A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues . |
25 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
26 | Her solutions to the most common pest and disease problems are ICI Benlate for mildew , grease bands for the leaf-eating loopers ( winter moth caterpillars ) , tar oil winter wash to deal with woolly aphids and pbi Malathion Greenfly Killer for other aphids . |
27 | Subtle copper highlights through the front layers enhance this shape . |
28 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
29 | Nakane 's work has a more voluntaristic approach , but even she writes about the assertive techniques that management uses to build up company identification of workers . |
30 | This lies between the mean densities of Venus and the Earth , but because of Mercury 's low gravity the uncompressed density is not much less that 5430 kg/m 3 , whereas the uncompressed densities of Venus and the Earth are considerably less than the planetary values . |