Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As several authors point out , the very fact that unequivocal translation evolves between any two communities in contact tells heavily against it ( though if one extends the example to man/dolphin the issue becomes more cloudy , presumably because we have less in common with dolphins ) . |
| 2 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 3 | Sherwood looks for more such business on the back of BS5750 approval , fast becoming an essential requirement for government tenders . |
| 4 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 5 | A flat , oblong mound fifteen feet high , about thirty feet wide and forty feet long , it stands like some horrible pimple outside Paris on the road to Saint Denis . |
| 6 | What lies behind this apparent conflict between memory and historical reality ? |
| 7 | The principal way in which the behaviour has been elucidated is by numerical solutions of the equations ; one starts with some initial condition for ( X , Y , Z ) and integrates forward in t . |
| 8 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 9 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 10 | ‘ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life — ’ the words caught his eye . |
| 11 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 12 | I am totally convinced that the solution to the search for ways to handle disruptive pupils lies in this impressive body of evidence and recommendations . |
| 13 | The voice of conscience is thundering in his soul and he stands before this huge crowd of people . |
| 14 | Frank Newman , the Treasury undersecretary who oversees borrowing , says that the new proposals will bring the proportion of debt that matures in any one year to 40–45% . |
| 15 | No one quite knows what lives in that dark sea of the deep genetic unconscious . |
| 16 | ‘ Well he lives in that little cottage at the bottom of the steep pitch just past the green , ’ Joe continued with a grin , ‘ as he staggers down the hill his legs have to go faster and faster to stop him falling on his face . ’ |
| 17 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 18 | Almost identical in size and looks to this prosimian ancestor of ours is the extraordinary tarsier , a primate just six inches tall , found only in the high jungle canopy of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 19 | The absence from the novel of the verb ‘ to be ’ corresponds to this differential definition of the self that is no one thing but can say anything , and the ‘ loss of identity through language ’ , which Brooke-Rose regards as one of the most important themes of the novel ( 1989e:84 ) , is evident in the character 's consciousness of living ‘ between ideas ’ ( 19/413 ) . |
| 20 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
| 21 | This model looks at each postal sector in Great Britain and answers the question " where do people go shopping ? " . |
| 22 | Inserted into this issue of the magazine is the series of talks which has been organised as part of the supportive programme for the exhibition and looks at both individual aspects of printmaking , as well as at business and marketing side of prints . |
| 23 | Chapter 7 looks at another important theme of the health service reforms — the search for " quality " in health care . |
| 24 | The other is found by the condition that and we obtain , finally : Now form the Laplace transforms of these two expressions by replacing by and . |
| 25 | Apart from the bad , there is another category that might be called the gloriously bad or the awfully bad : one thinks of all those collections of groan-producing puns and nonsensical jokes and riddles . |
| 26 | If it was seen like that you ca n't actually solve a erm a linear problem which occurs between these two sets of units . |
| 27 | But it seems that their notoriety was such that no waste disposer would take them , albeit Europe disposes of some 20000 tonnes of lethal chemicals a year , most not nearly so well wrapped . |
| 28 | He had a win/loss record of 76/17 and the fewest number of 1st round loses of any other player in 1991 , ( one , in 20 tournaments entered ) . |
| 29 | Soviet Foreign Ministry formally condemns Iraq 's annexation but warns against any military action without UN approval . |
| 30 | If the views of ‘ undecided ’ voters are removed from The Northern Echo poll equation as happens with many national polls by organisations like Mori and Gallup then our poll figures would translate into : Labour 51 ; Conservatives 36 ; Lib Dems 13 and the BNP just one per cent . |