Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 2 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 3 | Initial Egyptian investigations into the attack revealed little concrete information about the perpetrators of the attack , and on Feb. 7 the authorities imposed a news blackout . |
| 4 | It affects us directly — a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full . |
| 5 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |
| 7 | Following their attack on the American naval units in Pearl Harbour , the Japanese forces made remarkably swift advances in the Far East , managing to capture Singapore from the British forces , on 15th . |
| 8 | Conventional analysis of F-– data measured on Carboniferous cores using the standard Archie relationship , has historically given widely varying values of the cementation exponent m and coefficient a . |
| 9 | She bought a car , which widened the range of our activities but made little other difference to the lives of us boys . |
| 10 | Right across the social scale , religion made little perceptible difference to the outward shape of life . |
| 11 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 12 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 13 | She had , to begin with , colonised the boudoir , rearranging the furniture and bringing down pretty china from the spare bedroom , so as , she planned , to sit there often by herself . |
| 14 | the rest of the production process was dependent upon this stage , but the operators got only intermittent feedback on the performance of the mixing process and were unable to effect control over it ; |
| 15 | He was thus never exclusively Gloucester 's man , but by 1480 had developed sufficiently close links with the duke to stand surety with other ducal retainers for Gloucester 's associate John Huddleston . |
| 16 | He was thus never exclusively Gloucester 's man , but by 1480 had developed sufficiently close links with the duke to stand surety with other ducal retainers for Gloucester 's associate John Huddleston . |
| 17 | The decision to proceed alone is based on the success of the prototype 's flight test programme and strong customer interest , says Pilatus , which holds paid options on the first 27 aircraft and is now accepting only firm orders for the $1.8 million PC-12 , with performance and delivery schedule guarantees . |
| 18 | YORKSHIRE cricket is blazing the international trail after always accepting only home-grown talent in the past Aussie paceman Craig McDermott ( above left ) was the first overseas star expected to join the county , but the move fell through and Tendulkar came over from India instead . |
| 19 | Consumed with rage and anxiety , Tobias Beventini , physician , prowled through the warm , pretty villa of the loveliest woman in Nicosia , bumping into maids carrying baskets of linen and other maids bearing pressed robes and doublets , concealing himself from the man who wanted to trim the fluff round his scalp , and using long Latin words to the other man who wanted to polish his spurs and his jewellery . |
| 20 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 21 | Back in 1952 the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , laid down specific guidelines to the Director-General of MI5 as to how it should operate in the future . |
| 22 | The revised law laid down strict rules on the issuing of permits for demonstrations and forbade government and party officials from participating . |
| 23 | Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen . |
| 24 | George made long driving whips from the tall canes , tying lengths of string to the knotted ends , running over the grass driving imaginary teams of dogs or horses . |
| 25 | Here again a rational trader will want sufficiently advantageous terms in the forward market to compensate for the extra costs of transacting . |
| 26 | The government 's gathered together knowledgable bodies like the trust into the Ruddy duck Working Group to find out if the two species can be kept apart . |
| 27 | Here the strange , tilted cliffs of the Corniche begin , layers of schist or of limestone that slide off into the water at an angle of 45 degrees and there make starkly visible ridges on the seabed . |
| 28 | Coming into the Virgin offices he would make exaggeratedly friendly overtures to the post boy and the receptionist and be sullen and truculent with Branson or Simon Draper . |
| 29 | The second reason was that the principle had received only limited application during the war . |
| 30 | At that time adoption with contact had received only scant attention in the social work literature and the so called ‘ clean break ’ approach was still in its supremacy . |