Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two methods of preparing the potencies , the Hahnemannian and the Korsakoff , exist and the decision as to whether to use high or low potencies varies with the type of illness present and the prescriber . |
| 2 | These designs can reveal people at play during a party as in Les Rendezvous or on an ice-rink as in Les Patineurs ; they present the conflicting or subtle moods arising from the tragedy of lost youth and hope during war-time , as in Gloria ; or they show how deep sorrow gradually changes into resignation and on to exaltation as in Requiem . |
| 3 | but choice it is , choice of alignments with the social or political forces presented at the time . |
| 4 | As a result , metal-working ( which was hardly developed at all in North American native cultures ) was widespread in Siberia from the second millennium BC , and long before the seventeenth century AD all its indigenous peoples either worked iron themselves or used artefacts made of the precious metal when these could be obtained by trade . |
| 5 | The surplus of cost over fair value attributed to the net assets ( excluding goodwill ) of subsidiary or associated undertakings acquired during the year shall be written off directly to reserves . |
| 6 | The surplus of cost over fair value attributed to the net assets ( excluding goodwill ) of subsidiary or associated undertakings acquired during the year shall be written off directly to reserves . |
| 7 | Wright looked at 255 rapes or attempted rapes investigated by the police as ‘ genuine ’ offences during 1972–1976 in six English police areas . |
| 8 | Where economic conditions impinged on the ability to maintain the welfare state , it was essentially at the margin : government imposed nominal charges for medicines obtained on NHS prescriptions . |
| 9 | If the essential educational standard or technical skills required by the job/personnel specification are not there then the candidate can be quickly rejected . |
| 10 | Beyond her , there were more ranks of bared heads , this time facing the Collector ; their eyes , too , scanned him greedily , looking for fissures and further away still , two or three faces of sick or wounded men watched from the open windows of the hospital . |
| 11 | Mr Scully says : ‘ At any time , I can have about seven or eight applications displayed on the workstation in front of me — those can include the trading system , market data , general ledger , hedging system , desktop publishing , graphics and spreadsheets . |
| 12 | It was very easy to imagine eyes peering from the gloom , or strange beings creeping along the path behind them . |
| 13 | The deaths of casuals or sudden or accidental deaths occurring among the inmates had to be reported by him to the Minister within twenty-four hours , and he had ‘ forthwith ’ to inform the master of every case of serious or dangerous illness in the institution . |
| 14 | Feasible or producible allocations depend on the technology and resources available to the economy . |
| 15 | Despite its rather skulking habits and fondness for dark , gloomy places , it is not really a shy bird , but with only thirty or forty birds left in the world — and probably all of them on Fregate Island — it must be one of the rarest . |
| 16 | The coverage angered the royal entourage on what was supposed to be a high-profile visit to a close trading partner , and a country where British servicemen died in the fight against Communism in the early 1950s . |
| 17 | Nearby , you can visit the waterfall at Sillans where brave bathers plunge into the rocky pools or the caves at Villecroze once inhabited by monks . |
| 18 | Since the shell grows at the margins , a ribbed shell is produced , with fine or coarse ribs according to the species . |
| 19 | ‘ There were always 25 or 30 ships moored off the port waiting to load . |
| 20 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 21 | These differences may be exacerbated in a more formal hierarchical structure where clear divisions exist between the different levels . |
| 22 | The disadvantage here , can be that any problems with parasites or harmful bacteria experienced with the previous batch will be , ( unless the ground is treated ) still there , so adding stress to the new young pullets . |
| 23 | Oil pipelines are subject to corrosion where induced currents flow between the pipes and earth . |
| 24 | The Philippines government had agreed to drop all pending or future suits filed against the Marcoses in the USA in return for Marcos property there worth some $8,000,000 . |
| 25 | European conference venues suffer from chronic diseases : small doors , narrow stairs , no lifts at all or tiny lifts added to the building as an afterthought , poor electrics , low ceilings , ‘ miles away ’ kitchens , staff curfews , meaningless rules and no ramps . |
| 26 | Above the cornice was an attic for the appropriate dedicatory inscription , while a large sculptural group surmounted the whole arch , usually in the form of a triumphal car with four or six horses flanked at the corners by statues . |
| 27 | The Skegness Festival in 1938 had a Carnival Procession which took five or six hours to get through the town , the Rector of Stiffkey now forgotten . |
| 28 | We usually have five or six singers amplified through the church PA . |
| 29 | ‘ Out of every five or six guys going for the wave , three are bluffing . ’ |
| 30 | The reversionary or annual bonuses paid on the bonuses already declared on with-profits endowments have been reduced from 7 to 5 per cent — although the bonus on the benefit assured remains at 3 per cent . |