Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 2 | Of any change in control of the business , its organization of management , or persons holding shares in the company which causes a change in the control of the company ( by letter ) . |
| 3 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 4 | This causes a change in the lengths of the primitive chains and the tensile forces acting on their individual segments are no longer in equilibrium . |
| 5 | If the change causes a change in the pattern of borrowing and lending , the interconnected nature of financial flows may involve the monetary sector and then changes in the money supply will occur . |
| 6 | This causes a narrowing of the channel and diminishes the amount of blood that the coronary arteries can carry . |
| 7 | It is most unlikely for an odour per se to cause actual physical damage , but where it causes a diminution in the selling value of the property or injures the plaintiff 's business by , for example , causing potential customers to be lost , this may be regarded as sufficient invasion of the plaintiff 's interest to be tortious . |
| 8 | It causes a clock on the ground to run more slowly than an identical one placed at high altitude . |
| 9 | Suppose that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 causes a fall in the flow of funds to unit trusts and increases the attractiveness of building society deposits . |
| 10 | We therefore investigated the effect of Bcl-2 expression on c-Myc-induced apoptosis in Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells arrested either with thymidine , which causes a block in the S phase , or with the epipodophyllatoxin etoposide ( VP16 ) , a topoisomerase II inhibitor that arrests cells in S/G2 and is frequently used in cancer chemotherapy . |
| 11 | This new research shows that the loss also causes a decline in the lizard 's ability to dominate other lizards , leading to a loss of territory , feeding and breeding opportunities , thereby reducing its chances of survival . |
| 12 | Exposure of the small intestine to cow 's milk antigens causes a lesion to the gut mucosa and increases its permeability , permitting the entry of antigens through the impaired host barrier . |
| 13 | Unlike billiards , however , rather than a clean ‘ hit or miss ’ , the repulsion of the two positively charged nuclei causes a curvature in the ion 's path even if it passes to the side of the atom . |
| 14 | A tumour or trauma in one side of the brain causes a loss in the field of vision on the other side . |
| 15 | In the normal diagram , a shift of the demand curve causes a movement along the supply curve . |
| 16 | The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is . |
| 17 | The ventral view comprises 2–3 of the 5 jaw angles — about half the disk area ; while the dorsal view covers a wedge from the centre of the disk to the base of the arms . |
| 18 | Merseyside is also expected to get Objective 1 status , a designation which now covers a quarter of the EC population including the former eastern Germany , Greece , Corsica , southern Italy , Portugal , Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | The Great Reckoning covers a lot of the same ground as the earlier book . |
| 20 | Convocation visits a rehearsal of the HALLE Free Trade Hall , Manchester 29th November , 1990 |
| 21 | First , it is important that centres put the correct start and finish dates on the Form NC5 so that is a subject assessor visits a week before the declared finish date , he will find that students are close to finishing the module — and not that the declared date was fairly fictitious and related to a timetabling convenience . |
| 22 | Indeed , the idea of these schools incorporates a division within the secondary curriculum that can only be harmful in the end , and will fail to meet the needs of pupils and of society . |
| 23 | If there is an element of design on Pechorin 's part in the duel he fights , an element which incorporates a knowledge of the loaded dice to be employed by his opponent in the form of an unloaded pistol , the outcome can still be ascribed to chance , in a sense that must be meant to characterise the hero 's fine indifference . |
| 24 | That strategy incorporates a review of the content of courses of initial teacher training ; the establishment of a committee for the accreditation of courses of teacher education ; an inquiry into the procedures for the external validation of courses in public sector higher education ; an inquiry into selection for teaching ; suggestions for regular staff appraisal of teachers , and the public reporting by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of their findings on visits to schools and colleges . |
| 25 | The UK Image Series family is based on an Intel Corp full 80486 microprocessor , and incorporates a socket for the Pentium P24T Overdrive chip , when this becomes available . |
| 26 | The trouble with ANDF as he sees it is it recreates a problem of the past by adding an enormous level of inefficiency in its intermediate compiler layer . |
| 27 | You might get the occasional guest who notices a camera in the foyer or speaker in the restaurant but we are nearly into the twenty-first century and high tech equipment does not have to be offensive . |
| 28 | A better film than Midnight Cowboy , which similarly pits a Westerner against the Big Apple , this was the first of Eastwood 's films with Don Siegel , the second of Unforgiven 's dedicatees , and is a transitional film between Eastwood 's cowboy roles and his later cop pictures , which reached an early climax with Siegel 's Dirty Harry . |
| 29 | It is a tradition which emphasises a commitment to the working class as a section of society which should be the object of positive discrimination so that they can avail themselves of educational resources and opportunities . |
| 30 | Centring and closing diphthongs are in this group , because the " prominence " of the sound undergoes a diminution as the articulation proceeds . |