Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre in this explanation should not , as Shils observes , be understood in a geometric sense or even in a geographical sense ; in fact , the term ‘ centre ’ stands for the value systems by which society is ordered and thus may have only the weakest of links with particular concrete manifestations of elite values in politics , economics , culture or other aspects of societal interaction . |
| 2 | Daily newscasts about the Scud attacks on Tel Aviv provide potent free advertising . |
| 3 | George Crabbe in his poem of 1802 , " The Parish Register " , writes of the village paupers as " Those who take from our reluctant hands / What Burn advises , or the Bench commands " . |
| 4 | There is no accepted blocking temperature for Pb retention in zircon , however , nor any evidence that it lies below the equilibration temperatures of upper-mantle rocks . |
| 5 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 6 | Wharram Percy lies in the Yorkshire Wolds in a dry valley near Malton . |
| 7 | It lies on the easter outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex , and today is the home of three Territorial Army units , each representing a different part of the Army . |
| 8 | While the underclass in this country is held firmly in place by unemployment , a number of other trends , such as tax and benefit disincentives , and structural changes in the job market , are operating to support the downward kick unemployment has on the living standards of this group . |
| 9 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 10 | In a conscious break from recent lengthy works such as his trilogy ‘ In Penumbria ’ , ‘ Nexus ’ and ‘ An Adjustment of Expectations ’ , in ‘ Beach Bodies ’ Adrian Gatie glances at the summer visitors to our beaches . |
| 11 | If one thinks of the DNA codes for proteins as records in a jukebox , the problem is to understand why one disc , say the haemoglobin theme , is played only in red blood cells while another , the albumin theme , is played only in liver cells . |
| 12 | A museum club for 8 to 14-year-olds which meets during the school holidays in a museum within Oxford City . |
| 13 | The road descends the hill and passes along the garden fronts of the houses . |
| 14 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 15 | In this situation , whether an arbitrage transaction is attractive or not depends on the time preferences of the arbitrageur , and it is not possible to state a general no-arbitrage condition . |
| 16 | The timetable for leap-frogging them forward had been a masterpiece of staff work , but — as not infrequently occurs to the end products of the thorough German military mind — one small omission arose to defeat it . |
| 17 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 18 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 19 | He warned Margaret Thatcher , as she prepares for a Commonwealth heads of government conference next week where the issue of sanctions on South Africa is expected to be central , against insisting that ‘ the regime ’ was moving in the right direction . |
| 20 | The Caledonian Canal cuts through the Great Glen to form a waterway link between Loch Ness at Fort Augustus and Loch Linnhe near Fort William , and in effect cuts off the North-West Highlands from the rest of Scotland . |
| 21 | An analysis already exists of the migration patterns of 1974 and it is intended to make direct comparisons between this and the 1983 results . |
| 22 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 23 | Munster originates from the Vosges mountains of France , but is much imitated throughout the world . |
| 24 | Prevailing winds from the north-east ( the Trade Winds ) very occasionally bring a leste , a hot , dry wind which blows from the desert areas of North Africa . |
| 25 | The mechanism is so effective that in the human body a partial vacuum of 6 mm Hg exists in the tissue spaces from which the lymph originates . |
| 26 | The wind that blew tin cans along the streets of the dormitory suburb where I was growing up was the same wind that howled round peak and scar and wrested piccolo tunes from the reed patches below the drystone walls . |
| 27 | The project concentrates on the employment experiences of the graduates in question and examines the extent to which their degree courses prepared them for employment . |
| 28 | Even with the modern partnership , no very satisfactory solution to this problem has been found , and the most one can say is that the partners have an equitable interest , often described as a lien , which floats over the partnership assets throughout the duration of the firm , although it crystallises only on dissolution . |
| 29 | The move which the program chooses is the one which leads to a position HisPos with maximum backed up value . |
| 30 | ‘ Women fall at his feet , ’ said Tony ; ‘ power falls into his lap and money grows on the palm trees in his back garden . |