Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I can discover from replies received or from the 1959 College Register the rest of us , either from choice or to fulfil the conditions of grants or the needs of wartime , became teachers , the length of our service varying accordingly . |
| 2 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 3 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 4 | 24 the government disclosed that in the Tibesti region of northern Chad 49 people had been killed in various attacks on civilians since mid-August by forces loyal to former President Hissène Habré . |
| 5 | Wishart and Virden ( 1977 ) also suggest that in the twentieth century a fundamental opposition between ‘ literate ’ music styles ( from concert music to Tin Pan Alley songs ) and ‘ oral ’ styles ( quintessentially Afro-American musics , but also popular styles derived from these ) is associated with the opposition between those who dominate and control the social system and those who are its victims . |
| 6 | Estimates suggest that in the European Community as a whole , at least 10% of families with children are lone parent families ( Roll , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | These findings suggest that in the gastric mucosa free radicals or lipid peroxides are injurious offensive factors and GSH is a protecting defensive factor . |
| 8 | Our data suggest that in the quadruple vector the p10 promoter probably makes transcripts that over-run and down-regulate the downstream ph promoter products . |
| 9 | More detached observers suggest that in the next century historians may see Mrs Thatcher as a figure having no more long-term significance than Wilson , Heath , or Callaghan . |
| 10 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 11 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
| 12 | Did you know that in the Soviet cities every citizen has been provided with a gas mask ? ’ |
| 13 | Many of you will know that in the eighteenth century , Buffon had defined literary style as the order and movement which we impose on our thoughts . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman will know that in the last year we have also cut interest rates seven times and halved inflation . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll know that by the new year , ’ John said . |
| 16 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 17 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 18 | It should be stressed that in the first period , when the plaintiff was at Addenbrookes hospital , that is from June nineteen eighty seven to May nineteen eighty eight , at least one parent was in attendance for eight hours a day . |
| 19 | None the less , it should be stressed that in the changed climate of the early twentieth century , there was no question of abandoning the youth organizations : that would have meant jettisoning the principle of voluntary action . |
| 20 | Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership . |
| 21 | I am reminded that with the literal manhole — the actual thing in the street — we can indeed walk all over it . |
| 22 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 23 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 24 | While it is comparatively easy to accept that in the primary years children have particular and specific qualities and that effective learning is most likely to take place in an environment which meets their intellectual , physical , social and emotional needs , it is much more difficult to define the components which make the learning environment effective . |
| 25 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 26 | ‘ But we have to accept that within the Asian community there is a hidden immorality . ’ |
| 27 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 28 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 29 | At any rate , it would be an exaggeration to speak of a collapse of militancy , or to infer that over the long term workers ' resistance can not be maintained . |
| 30 | We propose that in the phospho-free state of HPr , the open conformation of the active centre ( having residue 51 in the vicinity ) is the one most likely to be involved in the phosphotransfer process with enzyme I. But the actual interaction awaits the structure determination of enzyme I and , more relevantly , structure determination of the enzyme I/HPr complex . |