Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this season 's semi-finals at Wishaw Sports Centre on Saturday , Coatbridge face Su Ragazzi , who have never appeared in a final before , but are arguably the favourites . |
| 2 | Although used almost interchangeably the words " exception " and " reservation " are , strictly , different mechanisms . |
| 3 | If Paul were to challenge successfully the adherents of Tammuz , Jesus would have to be able to match the older god , miracle for miracle . |
| 4 | In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion . |
| 5 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 6 | Even if the catechisms of ‘ correct thought ’ are updated and find new roots , and old upbeat endings are set to more popular and contemporary tunes , they will not be able to generate the more intricate models or maps which are required to confront successfully the types of racism which are evidenced by our two transcripts . |
| 7 | At the same time , local government and even more directly administered or corporatist elements of state action at the local level ( DHSS local offices , Manpower Services Commission , Health Authorities ) are , as Goodwin ( 1986 : 3 ) puts it , ‘ important in administering and implementing locally the decisions reached in central government , where weaker and subordinate groups are not dominant ’ . |
| 8 | Locally the signs are clear . |
| 9 | The following morning , a peerless sunny Sunday , incredibly the larks were singing on the Mort Homme and it seemed quite impossible that there could be an attack that day Suddenly , a single shell landed , and the tornado descended . |
| 10 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 11 | I am sure that he did not intend to insult thereby the professionals involved — the assessors — who will be responsible for the valuation and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue , who are responsible for ensuring consistency in the way in which the valuation is undertaken throughout the country . |
| 12 | Now I felt in a position to explore the fate of this culture , and thereby the roots of the contemporary political landscape . |
| 13 | The physical segregation of the city ‘ offers the group , and thereby the individuals who compose the group , a place and a role in the total organisation of city life ’ . |
| 14 | So it happened that both Polybius and Posidonius were involved in exploring the lands of the West , and more conspicuously the lands of France and Spain — with the consequences which I hope to illustrate in my next lecture . |
| 15 | IT IS THE small print which usually deceives the public , but rarely the players ( to whom it is second nature to bypass the spirit of any radical change of legislation ) . |
| 16 | Rarely the valves of the heart can be involved . |
| 17 | The disk is round , to slightly pentagonal , diameter up to 13 mm ; covered by trifid spinelets , rarely the spinelets may be more elaborate but often the crown is indistinct and the spinelets appear to be rugose . |
| 18 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 19 | And remembering how furiously the Larks and the Covington-Pyms — and no doubt Goldsborough himself — had opposed the opening of parliament to the new and much despised middle-classes , he wondered afresh why the captain should now be murmuring against his own kin . |
| 20 | Secretly the maids used to leave food in hidden corners for the dogs , but not when Marie Claire was around . |
| 21 | I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years ! |
| 22 | What little the labourers often had they sought to preserve , supported frequently by local tradesmen and small farmers who feared the end of their contracts with the parish overseers . |
| 23 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 24 | The magazine said : ‘ There seems little the authorities can do about it . ’ |
| 25 | And little by little the guns with their horses and crews were tilted forward , sliding inexorably towards the freezing mud . |
| 26 | What little the authors can say , however , should stir up debate in the palaeoanthropological world . |
| 27 | Each of the dealing firms has a different amount of stock but you can work out who has what by how keenly the prices compare with the best bid , best offer . |
| 28 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 29 | The object of the book is not to analyse but to report , which is why it is predominantly the words of others taken from the radio series that I produced , In Other Words — David Bowie , a series that was narrated by Angie , David 's former wife . |
| 30 | 46:34 : the Egyptian dislike of the nomadic shepherds is probably no different fro the feelings of most settled people towards wandering gypsies . |