Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one leaf is to go out of the garden until either I or my chief taster gives the order . " |
| 2 | but where their filmy skins caught the light |
| 3 | But what about the lower threshold of manslaughter , where its minimum requirements form the boundary with accidental ( non-criminal ) homicide ? |
| 4 | The Harare Statement on Communication in Theological Education ( 1989 ) spoke of ‘ frustrations about communication in a hierarchical , authoritative and class-conscious Church , where its male clergy pay the piper and call the tune ’ . |
| 5 | Like the Development Wheel and Village Quality of Life Index , Past Now Future summarises the village 's discussion , taking each person outside his or her immediate situation to consider the history of the village in a development context . |
| 6 | ( His Section 's Mediterranean operations , where his cheerful courage discomforted the Germans and Italians , are dealt with in later chapters . ) |
| 7 | In experimental line-out changes that will be reviewed after a year , a jumper must use both hands or his inside arm to catch the ball , and the 50 centimetre space between the lines will be doubled . |
| 8 | I am glad that my hon. Friend mentioned the extra expenditure under the urban crime fund , which is designed to tackle crime in particular areas . |
| 9 | I am sure that my hon. Friend welcomes the steps taken by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in the Agriculture Council on this matter , especially in relation to the export of live horses . |
| 10 | If asked , at this stage , each side would be likely to reply that its standard conditions governed the transaction . |
| 11 | Likewise , the verb drink in a verb-object construction is the selector since it presupposes that its direct object bears the trait ‘ liquid ’ . |
| 12 | But the migratory instinct and the geographical pattern seems so deeply etched into their inward mental fabric that their pre-programmed habit rules the day . |
| 13 | She 'd put bowls of fresh flowers everywhere , so that their cool scent filled the room . |
| 14 | It is frequently assumed that large corporations act in roughly the same manner , whether they are part of the public or the private sector , and that their industrial relations follow the same pattern , too . |
| 15 | The chapters of this book switch erratically between these two aspects but they must come to blend in readers ' minds so that their practical implications control the course of an investigation . |
| 16 | Although the ultimate function of SSRPs has not been clearly delineated , their structure-recognition properties are consistent with the hypothesis that their HMG-box domains facilitate the recognition of bent or bendable DNA structural elements . |
| 17 | Certainly the ethos of an Augustinian priory with its stress on the expression of an inner religious faith in the active life of the community would have been sympathetic to the characteristic concern Hilton displays in his writing not just for professional religious but for all those , whether in active or enclosed life , who feel that their religious faith holds the secret of a dimension of fulfilment to which they desire access . |
| 18 | The Sandinistas point out that many thousands of rebels are already back inside the country , and that their alleged attacks necessitated the ending of the ceasefire . |
| 19 | The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn 's disease . |
| 20 | ‘ Any prospective purchaser of systems should , therefore , make themselves fully confident that their chosen supplier has the depth of skills and personnel available in all areas . |
| 21 | The busmen 's case had been that their strict schedules made the satisfactory operation of physical functions difficult . |
| 22 | Given any group of objects , and the ability to measure difference ( or dissimilarity ) between any pair of the objects , how can we position the objects in two dimensions in such a way that their physical separation reflects the measure of dissimilarity between them ? |
| 23 | It was rumoured that they had already burned farms in other villages , so their mere presence filled the Fontanellatesi with terror . |
| 24 | The exact point , which is about ¼ mile south of Myndmill Bridge , is described in the report as 14 miles 10 chains from the intended junction with the Cambrian Railways , north-west of Montgomery , for it is characteristic of the BCR 's unfulfilled ambitions that , although its main line to join the Cambrian was never completed , the railway 's mileposts showed the distance from that non-existent junction . |
| 25 | Just as the regime 's handling of industrial relations precluded the emergence of a moderate trade-union movement , so its political stance precluded the emergence of a reformist party with a stake in the status quo comparable to the German Socialist party . |
| 26 | Although their sheer abundance depressed the value of cowries as units of currency , it provided a wealth of shells for decorative purposes as well as a medium for displaying the wealth and demonstrating the prestige of rulers . |
| 27 | The combination of spiritual , cultural , and economic influence at its disposal made the Russian Church in some ways better placed than its Western counterparts to resist the ambitions of the newly centralized State . |
| 28 | When the flow is spontaneously pulsating , the Reynolds number periodically becomes larger than its average value making the entry length temporarily unstable . |
| 29 | Although his head office sent the branch all the goods sold by the branch in Year 41 , Mr Messy did not record how much was sent and kept no records at the branch other than branch sales . |
| 30 | Thus Castro was demonstrating not only that he was serious in his commitment to social reform but also , more importantly — in terms of how Soviet analysts assess the viability of a regime — that his revolutionary government had the power to implement the measures that it chose . |