Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The housing stock which remains with the local authority tends to be less attractive than what is sold off , and much of it is less suitable for elderly people whose needs are for low-cost , good quality housing with ground-floor access in a safe and secure neighbourhood and close to good social support networks . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most serious defect of the current representative model of English politics though is that it disenfranchises , in a double sense , the broader electorate which falls outside the established consensus . |
| 3 | Posteriorly it emits a recurrent nerve which extends along the mid-dorsal line of the oesophagus and , passing just beneath the brain , expands a short distance behind the latter into a hypocerebral gang/ion . |
| 4 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 5 | Following assessment and successful completion of a period of consolidation the nurse is then encouraged to proceed into a two part professional studies programme which leads to the National Board for Scotland Diploma in Professional Studies . |
| 6 | In Gurtin in the Omagh area , where Riofinex has already caused huge disturbance to local people simply through its exploration activities and where it is proposing to stripmine for gold , there is strong opposition which stretches across the political spectrum from Sinn Fein to the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 7 | Because somewhere in my mind , a mind which boggles with the last-minute sketches and songs and sudden announcements and warm wine and stale sandwiches and endless pacings round the corners of empty dressing-rooms — a still small voice is saying , ‘ Why ? |
| 8 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that the Home Office has commissioned research which focuses on the criminal justice process rather than wider child care concerns . |
| 10 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 11 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 12 | So says a recent study which deals with the modern trend in child-rearing and its consequences for both the individual and society . |
| 13 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 14 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 15 | The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 . |
| 16 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 17 | The transfected C/EBPδ cDNA gives rise to a major complex which comigrates with the IL-6 induced complex . |
| 18 | The state as a whole functions as ‘ an ideal collective capitalist ’ ( Altvater , 1973 ) , a political institution which corresponds to the common needs of capital . |
| 19 | These bleaching creams usually contain hydroquinone , a photographic chemical which peels off the natural top layer of the skin , exposing the body to harmful radiation . |
| 20 | The reason for this is that the sound is recorded as a separate linear edge-track which runs at the slow forward speed of the tape , and the speed affects the audio quality to some extent . |
| 21 | This Belemnite chalk extends to the border of Avize , but Micraster bites into the vineyards on the lower slopes , reaching as far up as the D9–D10 cut which runs around the southern edge of the Butte de Saran . |
| 22 | The gold background and coloured pictures glitter and glow in the subdued light which filters through the tiny round-headed windows and gives a sensation of unreality and fairy-like mysticism . |
| 23 | DOWN Royal have received an unusually high number of entries for their meeting next Saturday which clashes with the Grand National . |
| 24 | Two clues indicate that these boulders are alien to the immediate landscape ; they are of darker Silurian rock which contrasts with the white carboniferous limestone on which they have come to rest . |
| 25 | The emphasis on the needs and best interests of the child in legislation , plus the traditional , case-based , local government structure of accountability generate a model of practice which focuses on the individual child and family . |
| 26 | Caffeine is found in varying amounts in coffee ( and tea ) , and is a stimulant which acts on the nervous system . |
| 27 | The power of the kick comes not from any knee snap , but from the line of tension which runs from the lower back the whole length of the right leg . |
| 28 | Working in India in a film industry which thrives on the sexual exploitation of women , Dhanraj spoke of the impossibility of positing a desiring female subject . |
| 29 | ’ . Again Douglas ( 1966 : 138 ) has suggested there is a liaison which exists between the physical body and its use as an expression of the social , so that one becomes a paradigm for the other : ‘ the [ human ] body is a model which can stand for any bounded system … |
| 30 | Parity expects to sell to end users and have the boxes rebranded by an integrator who sells into the petrochemical industry . |