Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the article three specific cases are mentioned in which the conduct complained of was not , at the time , an offence , other than public nuisance : Reg. v. Wheeler , The Times , 17 December 1971 ; Reg. v. Madden [ 1975 ] 1 W.L.R. 1379 and Reg. v. Holme [ 1984 ] C.L.Y . |
| 2 | Textbooks on macroeconomics are written in which the assumption of full employment is taken as the starting-point . |
| 3 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 4 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 5 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 6 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 7 | If the board is sailed too close to the wind , the so called ‘ no-go ’ zone is entered within which the board will stop or even blow backwards . |
| 8 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 9 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 10 | An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet . |
| 11 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 12 | Kendall ( 1986 ) reminds us that accidents in infancy are related to what the child can do , so are related to stage of development , and quotes the relative incidence : |
| 13 | In 1987 , new air quality standards for particulates were introduced in which the total suspended particulate ( TSP ) standard ( which included particles as large as 100 um ) was replaced by the PM 10 standard ( particles less than 10 um in diameter ) since small particles are considered to pose a greater threat to health than large particles . |
| 14 | His retirement years were marked by what the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 20 described as " a consistent championship of causes " . |
| 15 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 16 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 17 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 19 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 20 | In differential helical phasing experiments , synthetic oligonucleotides are prepared in which the distance of specific structural elements is systematically varied . |
| 21 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 22 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 23 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 24 | The essential point is that responsibility is assigned and , therefore , authority is delegated for which the individual is accountable in his role . |
| 25 | Here , an anaerobic ( oxygen-free ) environment is created through which the aquarium water is slowly trickled ( not to be confused with aerobic trickle filters ) . |
| 26 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 27 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 28 | No limits are placed on what the participants can say , and the experimenter is able to control the complexity of the stimulus array in terms of the size and number of varying attributes . |
| 29 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 30 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |