Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little sign that the government was able to find the time or the inclination to assess sceptically the framework within which balance-of-payments policy was conducted . |
| 2 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 3 | It was decided to build a huge central market , the construction of which was entrusted to Baltard , a man who was as much an engineer as an architect , on a site which had existed since the reign of Napoleon I. Succeeding regimes had neither had the will nor the drive to carry out the project as originally planned , but the Emperor was determined that this new market should be one of the earliest major building projects of his reign . |
| 4 | They had to retrace their steps to pick it up again , while a second team discovered that neither a policeman nor the Council knew where the Local Authority parcels office was . |
| 5 | But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone , nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism . |
| 6 | I had neither the patience nor the German to point out the contradiction in his argument . |
| 7 | However , if the repurchase price contained in the options is the market value at the date of exercise , it is probable that the buyer acquires both the opportunity to benefit from any increase in the value of the asset and the risk of loss due to an adverse change in its value . |
| 8 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 9 | Their public defence is that the system brought together the industrial and political arms of the labour movement : abandon the block vote and you betray Labour 's parentage . |
| 10 | The provision of welfare benefits merely preserves an exploitative and inegalitarian system and Marx argues that the bureaucracy becomes merely the tool of the ruling classes . |
| 11 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
| 12 | The fundamental principle … of our law is that the Jury has only the function of determining the question of guilt or innocence , and is relieved of any responsibility for the subsequent penalty . |
| 13 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 14 | Some were wrapped in special plastic sheets that formed an airtight cover around their bodies ( or certain parts of the body , most often the belly and behind ) , so that the skin perspired all the more readily and the women , or so they believed , would lose weight more quickly . |
| 15 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 16 | He concludes that the event demonstrates only the ‘ growing pains of a young republic ’ which ‘ after 5000 years of conquerors … looks forward to a prosperous and peaceful future . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 18 | On May 9 the Council ruled the term " Corsican people " unconstitutional on the grounds that the Constitution recognized only the " French people comprising all French citizens without distinction as to their origin , race or religion " . |
| 19 | The speed that the commentary scrolls up the screen can be controlled from the keyboard on some computers . |
| 20 | Arangio-Ruiz , who replaced Riphagen as Rapporteur at the 39th session of the International Law Commission , has proposed that the Commission examine separately the consequences of an international delict and an international crime , since certain consequences apply only to the latter . |
| 21 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 22 | Sun is counting on its argument that the box has twice the usable life of any competing machine to forestall order erosion . |
| 23 | The fact of the matter was that the BUF had neither the organization nor the quality of personnel necessary for a national political campaign . |
| 24 | Here we meet a central theme : ca n't we demand that the doctor set out the principles on which he acts for all to see ? |
| 25 | This meant that the method over-generated i.e. the correct tag assignment was present as well as incorrect assignments . |
| 26 | Each instruction is encoded in such a way that it can be held in a store location , so that the store contains both the data being operated on and the program of instructions specifying the operations to be performed . |
| 27 | Often the most one can learn from them is that the student stuck out the course and actually learned enough to pass the examination , retaining what he learned long enough to get it down on paper . |
| 28 | Accepting then that the material making up the mantle can behave as a viscous liquid , this raises an interesting possibility . |
| 29 | It is a common fallacy that the wind does all the work in a water start by pulling you on to the board . |
| 30 | We do not have to ‘ choose ’ whether we breathe or whether our heart beats , for instance ; it is better that the body carries on the process without interference . |