Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clue to the violence of the break-up may lie also in the balance of weaponry inside Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | Getting such an installation — currently available for some forty GA aircraft types — approved by the CAA may add considerably to the cost of hardware and labour , as the British Gliding Association has been finding out . |
| 3 | No further discussion necessary on their budget let's get on with the serious business of funding real education in Hertfordshire which we asked and in this particular case the Labour party . |
| 4 | Achieving cultures , based on principles of Self-help and free enterprise , were characteristic of the USA and north Europe during the period 1800 to 1960. purchasing patterns may alter significantly from the traditional roots , emphasising personal material possession and display , the possession of prestigious homes and objects , " one-upmanship " etc . |
| 5 | The arts and the heritage may benefit particularly from the latter . |
| 6 | In principle , it would seem that the performance of a genetic algorithm may depend significantly on the order of the basic data in each string . |
| 7 | This inbuilt coloration may alter slowly during the lifetime of the fish , depending on its environment . |
| 8 | Both US and Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Europe were to be eliminated entirely , without reference to the British and French deterrents ( this was a concession as compared with the Soviet position at Geneva ) ; and discussions should start immediately on the elimination of such missiles from Asia , and on shorter-range or tactical missiles . |
| 9 | When non-exclusive fruit-eating passerines ( in Israel ) were kept on exclusively fruit diets , they lost weight as the protein digestibility increased : they ingested more energy and protein than was required but digested less , suggesting that the fruits may contain agents that reduce the efficiency of nitrogen metabolism , such that dispersal is improved because birds must move away from the fruit source to seek out insects or other animal proteins to balance their diet . |
| 10 | This means that the feeding of nestlings has to be much more intensive , and parent birds must work almost round the clock to raise a brood successfully before the icy hand of autumn sends insects into hibernation , covers up seeds and vegetation with ice and snow , or sends the fish out into deeper water . |
| 11 | belief is that er if you get the trustee balance right , that 's the first place where the decision ought to be made , but there should be a fall-back position which Good has given , which they the trustees could go to the regulator in the case of er not being able to solve things , but are feeling very much on surpluses , that the money is there first of all to pay pensions and until pensions are paid up to Inland Revenue levels , whatever they are , then no money should go back to the company . |
| 12 | I M P A Cs belief is that er if you get the trustee balance right , that 's the first place where the decision ought to be made , but there should be a fall back position which Good has given , which they they trustees could go to the regulator in the case of er not being able to solve things , but our feeling very much on surplus is that the money is there first for to pay pensions and until pensions are paid up to Inland Revenue levels whatever they are , then no money should go back to the company . |
| 13 | The identified competences must relate realistically to the tasks students will eventually undertake within industry and this is where the apparent limitation of the group membership , mentioned above , is put in perspective . |
| 14 | Those of us who are involved with the courts should look closely at the options available , specifically in the sentencing of cases involving violence . |
| 15 | British Rail should go back to the drawing board , look at the line and the station together , and produce a new , properly worked out Bill that addresses both the line and the station . |
| 16 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 17 | Circuit roads closed this morning and motorists travelling to Portrush from the Belfast and Ballymena direction should turn right at the end of the Ballymoney by-pass , and travel via Ballybogey and White Rocks . |
| 18 | The guide-lines also set out a number of general principles to be observed , of which the most significant ( and conten-tious ) is that the grounds for committal should relate solely to the seriousness of the offence in question , and not the offender 's previous convictions . |
| 19 | Last year the general assembly decided nem con without demur on the advice of the assembly council that the Board of Social Responsibility should move away from the church 's office in George Street . |
| 20 | Several of these emphasize that researchers should attend carefully to the sacred and secret parts of Aboriginal life and language ; publication of material whose widespread dissemination offends against Aboriginal religious practice is forbidden . |
| 21 | I mean if anything , the physics should go in with the maths exam , rather than chemistry and biology . |
| 22 | Moderators should agree early in the year with the centre the date for this visit and should normally attend on the day of the Course Assessment/Examination Board . |
| 23 | Press relations activities must go on during the exhibition with media who attend or may be interested . |
| 24 | The task description should emerge logically from the system design and more particularly from the allocation of functions . |
| 25 | The Minister is backing away from the commitment that the Scottish Transport Group and the Government gave , and is now saying that the money must go back into the Treasury 's coffers . |
| 26 | The polypary may occur at the end of a stalk , giving the coral the appearance of a toadstool , or alternatively , in encrusting forms , the polypary may rest directly on the substrate , attaching itself by rootlike processes as the coral grows . |
| 27 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 28 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 29 | The disk is round , up to 6 mm diameter covered by spinelets with a crown of many points , 9 or more , the spinelets may extend on to the dorsal part of the arm . |
| 30 | Furthermore , different voice settings typically characterise different languages , and these settings may carry over into the pronunciation of a second language ( Laver 1991 : 248 ) . |