Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear from studies in man that either methanogenesis or dissimilatory sulphate reduction predominate in some populations . |
| 2 | The spotted eagle owl , European eagle owl , tawny owl and little owl fit into this category . |
| 3 | How can the job holder build on these strengths to improve his/her performance overall ? |
| 4 | Look at this mummy look at this crisp . |
| 5 | Bullying , boredom , fear , hopelessness about the future and lengthy hours of isolation lie behind many prison suicides , factors which are all amenable to management changes in the prison service . |
| 6 | Four other passages in the Old Testament refer to these events , and there are hints in two of them of something more serious than we seem to have here . |
| 7 | This is a pity for , as we shall soon see , the two main theoretical interpretations of the effect differ on this issue . |
| 8 | There 's no expense spare in this campaign . |
| 9 | The large majority of wounds seen in the A&E department belong to this category . |
| 10 | The evaluation of processes in sign which are presented in this chapter arise in this context , such that results are available to inform our theories of perceiving and remembering as they apply to spoken language . |
| 11 | As Eric John has emphasised , early-eleventh-century kings were invited to identify not with Christ in majesty , but with the suffering Christ , and drawings of the crucifixion survive from this period in which his suffering on the cross is made very explicit ; perhaps the cross which Cnut gave to New Minster , which bore an image of the crucified Lord , did so too . |
| 12 | But whatever , we are keen on it now , we should always have been , and if you treat people at the work place just like dirt , if you continue to turn Britain into a sweat shop , drive down wages , drive down people 's rights , then you may get some form of external investment come into this country , but we will never compete with the Dutch and the Germans and the Scandinavians , and we will never have a happy and united country . |
| 13 | The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul was founded in 1083 , about 50 years before Brother Cadfael 's time ; three huge columns and a wonderfully preserved Norman archway survive from those days . |
| 14 | We can study in detail how the complementary descriptions of position and momentum relate to each other . |
| 15 | ‘ I agree , ’ said Dod , popping the ring pull on another can of lager . |
| 16 | Deciding which measures to implement needs to be based on detailed knowledge of the emissions which power stations , traffic , homes and industry contribute to each pollutant . |
| 17 | Not all of the entries in Johnson 's dictionary conform to this principle of plainness . |
| 18 | The Committee after minute Examination , do recommend Mr Vial as properly qualified for one of the professors — and they do further observe that if the Members of the College coincide in this Opinion , they are ready to investigate the merits of any other Candidate . |
| 19 | How far does the phenomenon of child abuse approximate to this model ? |
| 20 | Two authorities on this question disagree with each other , the one claiming little or no contact , the other maintaining that some Belorussian intellectuals appealed to the peasant masses throughout the 1920s by proclaiming the Bezburzhuaznost' ( the non-existence of a bourgeoisie ) of the whole nation . |
| 21 | What I would want to hear is something about how the parts of an engine interact with each other to produce the behaviour of the whole engine . |
| 22 | for the class work look at that homework I got two wrong and in science steady should be finish . |
| 23 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 24 | You could , could the window tre the cleaner get through that window he said yes , but she 'll have to , he 'll have to force it , she said oh I do n't want it forcing , no , somebody at the shop in the greengrocers rooted through the phone book , eventually got her daughter 's phone number in Urmston , phoned for her and her daughter come down |
| 25 | The drumming and dancing continue for another hour , reaching no climax and no greater or lesser degree of intensity . |
| 26 | But it is also clear that contrary to the pattern implied by rule 1 , lengthening and raising operate to some extent independently of each other . |
| 27 | social policy , the market , the law , the family and the voluntary sector differ from each other ? |
| 28 | They did a mass formation practise for some show in Cairo , and he would get in the back of an Audax , throw off his parachute and Sutton harness , then kneel looking backwards and control the formation like the leader of the Halle . |
| 29 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 30 | Broadening this analysis , we might note that there is considerable variation in different cultures about how the two principles of blood and marriage relate to each other , and therefore in the code of conduct upon which in-law relationships are based . |