Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The fingerboard/neck jointing and overall fretwork is exemplary ; the neck-edging feels impossibly smooth , and hopefully manufacturing consistency means that all similar-spec 'd Bass Collection instruments will be as good as this .
2 We agree that the specific algorithm we used wold have been inappropriate if we were interested in examining seasonal or short-term changes in primary production , not because the algorithm does not include a grazing term but because it does not include terms for irradiance and quantum efficiency .
3 He reports that the algorithm does indeed usually converge .
4 The algorithm takes about 50 CPU seconds on a SUN SPARCStation II to order 180 probes and 1150 clones from the S.pombe YAC library , and 247 CPU seconds to order 667 probes and 2837 clones from the S.pombe cosmid library , including the phase of contig ordering and consistency checking .
5 It can not be exactly the algorithm given above because the desired outputs d from the top layer are not known , so it can not calculate y * ( 1-y ) * ( d-y ) .
6 The algorithm discussed here omits the start symbol . )
7 The algorithm runs thus : IF Vs>Vdb
8 The algorithm runs thus .
9 The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome .
10 The initial choice of strings may be random , but the algorithm works better if some of the ones it starts with are varied but fairly sensible .
11 I had acquired his confidence , which I believe I still retain , but for a number of reasons which were quasi-political we drifted apart towards the end of his second premiership , and although we have remained on friendly terms , the intimacy has long vanished .
12 The womenfolk noted down completed sections of the poem , and probably supplied the punctuation — we often feel that there is no reason why one sentence stops and another begins .
13 All men were the same , of course : they all liked to hold the floor while the womenfolk listened respectfully , but then you 'd think a Turk would be more interesting .
14 This , coupled with the notion of the magistrate as being responsible for enforcement of the judgments handed down by himself or his deputy , would surely suggest that he could give judgment for performance and enforce it specifically .
15 Outbluffed , the porter left quite cheerfully .
16 Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock .
17 In their eyes the porter read only
18 He grinned , and the porter grinned back .
19 The porter stretched out his hand .
20 At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her .
21 The porter came back .
22 The porter walked ahead , Corbett and Ranulf strolled behind .
23 He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife .
24 Eventually the porter broke away from him .
25 The porter did not even pause in his stride .
26 The porter hurried across , chose a key and unlocked one of the doors .
27 When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him .
28 The porter staggered drunkenly to his feet .
29 The porter nodded hesitantly .
30 The porter pulled out his knife , slashed the corpse , and then gave Ranulf 's arm a small nick on the wrist .
  Next page