Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 2 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 3 | Before he took office the Defence estimates for 1957-58 were running at £1,700 million . |
| 4 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 5 | The response depends on continuous excitatory discharge to the coxal adductor muscles by only one or two neurons . |
| 6 | This is analogous to the complexity of computers where the signals are essentially noughts and ones but the response depends on previous events . |
| 7 | See how the response goes with this and then |
| 8 | The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal , say the tail , in which case the response reappears in all its original strength . |
| 9 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 10 | Only in one circumstance can this aggregation take place : where the parent sets up a settlement for the benefit of that child and the income arises from that settlement and is paid to the child . |
| 11 | We know real freedom for the majority depends on economic efficiency and social justice . |
| 12 | The benefits for items 1–3 and 5 are only payable provided the contingency commences within 12 months of the injury . |
| 13 | In the centrepiece is Christ , seated on a throne , and the remainder illustrates with extraordinary clarity and detail the Romanesque conception of heaven and hell , with the celestial delights for the fortunate and the demons clawing upwards to capture the souls of the damned . |
| 14 | The remainder comes from Government-paid student fees as well as research council and private sector contracts and grants . |
| 15 | ASAS stands , apparently , for ‘ All-Singing All-Swinging ’ , and the guitar comes in two versions : ‘ semi ’ , with 60mm deep sides , a mahogany sustain block , a tune-o-matic bridge la ES-335 and two humbuckers ; or ‘ jazz ’ , with 85mm deep sides , hollow construction and an ebony bridge . |
| 16 | Miss Hopkins wears an elegant pleated skirt , while the prince favours Plus Twos — Plus Fours have four extra inches of cloth in the leg , Plus Twos have two . |
| 17 | The base comes in two sections which simply slot together and the top is fixed by putting the four screws provided into pre-drilled holes . |
| 18 | The course of the split varies from one Species to another ; in some its lateral arms run dorsal to the antennal insertions , in others it runs to them or below them . |
| 19 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 20 | The social worker whose aim is to effect change in response to some cry for help , will try to ensure that the change occurs in such a way that it is manageable for the system as a whole . |
| 21 | Well all the support comes from one side of the ground , I mean when they score all the shouting comes from one side of the ground now and when Walsall scored all the shouting seems to come from the Street end and the erm |
| 22 | If the GP insists on that referral , the health authority will honour it , provided that it is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 23 | When the good season is spent and cold bites to the bone , the waterfall dies like most other living things . |
| 24 | Well the good news for the environmentalists is the bike runs on unleaded . |
| 25 | The struggle emerges in various themes showing the terrible weapons of Evil and how Good fights back . |
| 26 | In chapter 27 , when Jacob steals his blessing , the writer goes to great lengths , as we have indicated already , to evoke our sympathy for Esau , and to help us share his anguish . |
| 27 | It is sometimes obscure and the writer confesses with some shame that he possessed for some forty years a Tudor binding with the cunningly interwoven initials ‘ R.B. ’ — those of an unidentified London binder working c.1550–81 . |
| 28 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 29 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 30 | The award goes to outstanding junior golfers who have benefited from the foundation 's work and who have maintained high standards both on and off the course . |