Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several studies have shown that the base pairs surrounding its GC-binding site affect the binding of actinomycin . |
| 2 | The mushroom anemones use their tentacles to trap zooplankton . |
| 3 | Margery Kempe witnesses to the way in which the visual icons of the Easter ceremonies activated her inner sense of the reality of the Incarnation . |
| 4 | It is likely that the stem cells maintain their characteristic state by virtue of their position in the basal layer where they may be under the influence of a deeper layer of cells . |
| 5 | Lord Stevens , the chairman , said the Express titles increased their market share of circulation , while advertising volumes rose 7 per cent in the year . |
| 6 | The Parlour Performers give their services free for charity and Bumpstead branch can recommend them highly . |
| 7 | While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition . |
| 8 | The building societies raised their interest rates by two per cent today , taking the steam out of house prices … ‘ |
| 9 | When the Moi trackers again descended from the lookout trees shaking their heads , Joseph on an impulse asked Jacques Devraux if he might climb to take a look with Chuck 's binoculars . |
| 10 | He predicts that bidders , including insurance companies and investment management groups , will form strategic alliances with societies , initially using the branch networks to sell their own financial services , and later agreeing full mergers . |
| 11 | Heath wants to use the promise of riches from the blood products to maintain his large-scale funding of research in British universities and to expand into mass production of the products of that research ( the job which Genentech wants to do for factor VIII ) . |
| 12 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 13 | An errant neurotic , failing to keep up the maintenance payments to support his own creation . |
| 14 | His wrists up to his elbows were closely covered with coral bangles , so were his ankles … his breast was completely hidden from view by the coral beads encircling his neck . |
| 15 | The coral polyps secrete their skeletons from their bases . |
| 16 | H each of the rock strata had their own ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , to use Sheldrake 's term , or ‘ landscape deva ’ , to use different terminology , might we not be able to detect these as different ‘ psychic atmospheres ’ ? |
| 17 | HOW THE GOSSIP COLUMNISTS PROTECT THEIR OWN . |
| 18 | By dawn the trench would probably be little more than eighteen inches deep , but it had to be occupied all day , while the enemy gunners resumed their work of levelling . |
| 19 | In the Berne elections on April 29 , 1990 , the coalition parties retained their domination of the grand council . |
| 20 | The ambulance men checked his clothes . ’ |
| 21 | And no middle peasant would have then had the investment resources to improve his own |
| 22 | In another action , the speed marchers stretched their stride to cover the last 6 of 20 desert miles after a sharp night action . |
| 23 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 24 | Unlike partnerships in which the partners decide policy , in the business corporation the equity owners relinquished their privilege in favour of the directors . |
| 25 | In the New Temple Period , from 1700 BC onwards , the seal carvers achieved their finest work . |
| 26 | The opposition members lost their seats despite the recognition of a multiparty system in December 1991 [ see p. 38661 ] . |
| 27 | But the opposition parties demanded their return , and the king had to promise that they would not be used except defensively , not even to eject Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 28 | Between shouts to the dock hands unloading my trunks he asked , ‘ You 've got the drugs I cabled for ? ’ |
| 29 | Last of the spring blooms to reach my desk are Tangled Up In White ( Hodder and Stoughton , £14.99 ) an anthology of some of the best of Peter Roebuck 's sharply intelligent articles on cricket and The Guinness Book of Cricket Captains ( Guinness , £14.99 ) , the second large book about Test captains recently published . |
| 30 | All the club members put their names in a hat and each eight is drawn out , so you do n't know who you will race with or against . |