Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was assumed that the food reinforcement in some way strengthened the response tendencies that led to the food , at the expense of other response tendencies . |
| 2 | For the smaller flags , glue on to halved cocktail sticks and stick into the red balls of fondant . |
| 3 | To make the bullrushes , take the cocktail sticks and press into the 8 leaves around the side of the pond cake . |
| 4 | It is more usual nowadays to use computer metaphors and refer to the programming of learning ( e.g. Pulliam & Dunford , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | We have doubled our medical input to our immunisation clinics and struggled through the difficulties of vaccine availability only to be informed that we are working for no reward . |
| 6 | Validated centres may if they wish adapt these to suit their own teaching styles and to correspond with the contexts in which the modules are being offered . |
| 7 | On behalf of all local authority caterers , I thank Joe Hyam for his kind words and support for the local authority caterers . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's some sort of women , ’ thought Sid , as he watched her skip up the kitchen steps and disappear into the bright sunlight of the car park . |
| 9 | The second class consisted of the 40 most frequent words excluding function words and extending over the entire concordance line , to represent collocates of the node . |
| 10 | In 1990 Alvarez was abducted from his home in Guadalajara by bounty hunters and smuggled into the USA where he was delivered to the DEA . |
| 11 | The wedding bells that sounded on the last page of so many ‘ romantic ’ novels of the last century are still sounding in certain genres but in the adventure story they seldom sound at all . |
| 12 | The court found that detectives had rewritten interview notes and lied during the 1986 trial . |
| 13 | The total labour hours and cost for the period |
| 14 | The total labour hours and cost for the period : |
| 15 | They huddle sensibly together in heaps of dirty wool while the pitiless wind shifts and howls between the shivering trees or flaps with daemonic aggression at the corrugated sheets of the sheds , outhouses and garages along the village road . |
| 16 | She gained medals and prizes which enabled her , at age 15 , to go to Paris where she was accepted into the free Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied under the most eminent French artists and sculptors . |
| 17 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 18 | The halls are traditional in nature : students have study bedrooms and eat in the main dining-hall , or , if on a self-catering basis , share a kitchen with a small group of other students . |
| 19 | Sticklebricks give rise to as many types of play and conversation as the interlocking small bricks , but due to their change in physical appearance and the wheel shapes that come in the packs there is a wider provision for imaginative construction . |
| 20 | Assuming a risk-free borrowing and lending rate , that all investment assets are marketable , that capital markets are perfect and that investors have homogeneous expectations , all investors will envisage the same efficient investment opportunities as described by the efficient frontier . |
| 21 | He produced a set of car keys and loped past the tractor about ten inches from my nose . |
| 22 | Hongkong Bank steered clear of the mania to lend to third-world countries that peaked in the early 1980s . |
| 23 | A number of ‘ ratings ’ of satisfaction and other aspects of the work situation were based on the interview responses and used in the analysis of data . |
| 24 | This neomucisa contains all normal intestinal cell lineages and persists for the life of the animal . |
| 25 | As can be seen from figure 7.1 , these cover a number of coastal zones as well as upland areas that lie outside the parks , such as the Quantocks , Cotswolds , Chilterns and Sussex Downs . |
| 26 | Ari strains and tumbles in the foam , but it seems as if her insides have become hard and dark . |
| 27 | Obviously the straightforward replacement of bulky cathode ray tubes with flat panel display leads to significant power and weight reductions as exemplified in the commercialisation of laptop computers . |
| 28 | You can get free NHS wigs and fabric supports or help towards the cost if you 're in one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 29 | The rearrangement of the kit has pushed me close to the side , and just above my face the fabric cracks and bangs in the wind . |
| 30 | Heath has proposed an alternative ‘ fullerene-road ’ scheme in which fullerenes are formed in the size range of 30–40 carbon atoms and grow by the addition of small carbon radicals . |