Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear . |
| 2 | In the north of Bucharest , there is a fascinating village-museum , started in the 1930s , which has collected examples of the extraordinary variety of styles of peasant architecture found in Romania . |
| 3 | Ophiactis abyssicola is a variable species , a fact which has misled authors in the past . |
| 4 | There is a contradiction which has pervaded responses to the National Curriculum in special education . |
| 5 | Naturally we regret any rise in bankruptcies , but let us remember the strengths of British industry , which has increased exports in the past 10 years by more than France , Germany , the United States or Japan — The hon. and learned Gentleman does not like that answer because he wants to talk Britain down . |
| 6 | And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke . |
| 7 | The EC has offered to mediate in the dispute , which has soured relations between the two countries . |
| 8 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |
| 9 | The disease is very similar to one which has affected pigs in the US over the last four years . |
| 10 | Management at Caldaire bus company held top level talks in a bid to remove a clause which has stalled negotiations on the Grange Road site in Darlington . |
| 11 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | Dewey established the Lake Placid Club Education Foundation which has provided funds for the continuation of the scheme . |
| 13 | A totem , for example , can be described first as it appears , then as an object which has stylised figures in the sculpture . |
| 14 | The accounts comply with FRS3 , ‘ Reporting Financial Performance ’ , which has introduced changes to the structure of the accounts . |
| 15 | Within production , computerization has produced ‘ automatic production control ’ in integrated and self-monitoring plant and machinery which has required changes in the labour process . |
| 16 | The most common cause is that of the front hand being too far forward on the boom , which causes luffing problems in the water start and the beach start and gives insufficient speed in the carve gybe . |
| 17 | Whereas Americans have grown accustomed to participation at the cost of policy coherence , and Europeans to a more professional and collegial structure which risks shackling politicians to the imperatives of officials , the Soviet system at its best avoids both of these pitfalls . |
| 18 | The levy , which exists to raise contributions to the Engineering Construction Board 's expenses , is imposed in respect of the 28th levy period and will be assessed by the Board in accordance with Art 3 of this Order . |
| 19 | Murray arrives in time to devise a programme for the forthcoming Festival and to supervise an ambitious campaign of refurbishment which includes opening windows at the front and on top of the building and cleaning its stone façade . |
| 20 | I have a Matchman Hooktier which tends to put kinks in the hook length , especially when I use very fine lines . |
| 21 | The general principle of proportional representation is surely a more democratic one than any system which tends to over-represent majorities at the cost of under-representing minorities — if they are lucky enough to be represented at all . |
| 22 | Selling houses to the poor may not be compatible with minimising the losses to taxpayers , which requires selling assets at the best price available . |
| 23 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 24 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 25 | Gloucestershire county councils economic development unit , which tries to attract jobs to the area , says it 's facing an uphill struggle against the recession . |
| 26 | Any minority government which tries to play games with the constitution in order to cling to power , promoting instability and dodging the moral challenge of democracy , will have to contend with us . |
| 27 | One ethical problem which does arise stems from the fact that the success rate of implantation increases with the number of embryos being implanted . |
| 28 | The most significant enhancement is the inclusion of Wysiwyg add-in which does allow reports from the spreadsheet to be rather more stylish . |
| 29 | Once in operation the extra keys f1 and f2 selected the lower and upper keywords printed on the keytops , a neat idea and one which saves playing octaves across the keys to reach both Shift and Symbol Shift . |
| 30 | She wants to take biscuits from the kitchen but she does n't because she knows she will get into trouble . |