Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's other research findings — that much of forensic science is far from certain , capable of misinterpretation and relies upon the defence to draw out its limitations — only add to the need for the defence to have already access to real defence experts . |
| 2 | Multiracialism is not what it was , and the NAR has little support among the ( largely Indian ) rural sugar workers , or among the ( mainly black ) urban poor . |
| 3 | Trade within the EEC had expanded at a rate double that of trade with non-members , and the EEC had also become the world 's largest trading power . |
| 4 | Although she uses the base form of the verb to indicate past tense as in JC , she does not do it consistently : she also uses several morphologically distinct past tense forms . |
| 5 | Judge Cerda points out that the case remains technically open until he personally closes it . |
| 6 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 7 | People trying to comprehend the field reviewed here have exactly the same problems in information overload as executives trying to comprehend their enterprise 's environment ! |
| 8 | And sometimes listen to the birds you know , the birds start early do n't they ? |
| 9 | Many of the birds brought here do n't fare so well . |
| 10 | As the election gets underway watch out for more of this Doublethink , particularly on television . |
| 11 | THE ELECTION has now become so thunderingly dull that I believe the viewing ratings on telly have never been lower . |
| 12 | The Certificate has now become a Diploma and is offered in a number of additional centres : full documentation is available from the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 13 | In effect , the proposals discussed above take no account at all of popular sentiment . |
| 14 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 15 | While it is the hostility of ‘ outsiders ’ that often legitimates violence , the definition of who counts as ‘ outsider ’ is a highly relative matter , as the cases cited above suggest . |
| 16 | At about 50 km depth , as you can see from Figure 6.3 , the wave speeds suddenly increase . |
| 17 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 18 | I rolled the left-hand wheels back to seven-three-eight and with the latch closed again set the right-hand lock to one-three-seven . |
| 19 | Groups were created by political or material need , and once created , granted each other quasi-familial status ( complete , for literate societies , with swiftly constructed genealogies ; thus , the descendants of the prophet in Islam have down the ages offered much work for the imagination and ingenuity of the genealogical archivists ) . |
| 20 | Standard ( international ) permits give hauliers the freedom to operate either hire and reward or own account at home and abroad . |
| 21 | The interference mysteriously stopped and through a clear line Frau Nordern 's voice boomed with all its usual authority , as if the ghost had miraculously become embodied with all the solidity of human flesh . |
| 22 | The authorities provided neither fire nor blankets in the winter , and gave prisoners no food other than the regular allowance of a half-quartern loaf for two days and water , with maybe a little tea . |
| 23 | He kicked the wreckage aside , and ran into the empty engine room , searching , as the Russian looked anxiously back up the stairway , listening to the tremendous blows echoing through the ship . |
| 24 | The values tabulated here give us a measure of comparison for Kaimann 's experimental results . |
| 25 | The bloodlust had even overcome their primitive fear of fire . |
| 26 | Statements of the kind cited above fall in the class of so-called singular statements . |
| 27 | There is also evidence of similar disparities in the sentencing practices of comparable Crown Courts in different parts of the country , though attempts to conduct more rigorous investigations of the kind described above have so far been met with judicial opposition and refusal to cooperate ( see Ashworth , 1994 ) . |
| 28 | The level haunches lightly sway … . |
| 29 | As traditional Italian dances are often sung , the performers pose solemnly fur a second or two at the end of each phrase . |
| 30 | The ox hath therefore stretch 'd his yoke in vain . |