Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [conj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library .
2 The sun goes down , the racing goes on and the keenest fans keep watching .
3 Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount .
4 Shaw says simply that the two sides have an ‘ excellent ’ deal .
5 The United States and most European countries have a specialized riot police force , sometimes referred to as a ‘ third force ’ , which takes over when the ordinary police can not cope , and provides the state with another option before calling in the military .
6 He charges firstly that the present techniques fail to exploit the opportunity which interactive computing can offer .
7 In 2 Corinthians 11:3–4 , he states explicitly that the Nazarean emissaries of James are promulgating ‘ another Jesus ’ , a Jesus different from the one he is promulgating .
8 Commenting on the draft law , Russia'a new Deputy Minister of Culture , Tatyana Nikitina , points out that the new regulations will allow the export of works of art dating from the beginning of this century .
9 He points out that the working classes consisted mainly of peasants forced off the land through extreme poverty .
10 Hilary Wright , in an article on Violet Needham , points out that the various countries are ‘ clearly recognizable as pre-1914 Austria-Hungary , with contributions thrown in from France and the Netherlands ’ , and that it was a world in which Violet Needham had lived herself .
11 Attacking the crude Marxist theory which treats history as a law-governed and predictable process , Trevor Roper points out that the Marxist historians failed to predict the rise of fascism .
12 Auber points out that the minor inconsistencies can cause the user confusion and makes a plea for standardization .
13 Victoria De Grazia points out that the Italian fascists practised what might be described as ‘ selective totalitarianism ’ , which had little of the ‘ compulsive thoroughness ’ of Nazi Gleichschattung or synchronisation .
14 Some Near Eastern religions demand allegiance to one of many monsters , but on closer examination it turns out that the other creatures in the loch are only large fish .
15 They 'll explain it to anyone , anytime , but somehow it turns out that the other employees must go to them if they want anything .
16 It turns out that the recent redundancies were enabled by the installation of an AViiON-based Unix client/server administration system at the company 's headquarters .
17 Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ?
18 Doing a bit of analytical geometry it turns out that the equipotential surfaces are circular cylinders as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.22 .
19 It seems indeed that the social categories Emily Faithfull had in mind as " compositoresses " were the educated daughters of respectable tradesmen : the only ones whose origin is known for sure , and who were ideal for the experiment , were the daughters of master printers ( rather different from the daughters of journeymen ) .
20 The disk is high and appears round but the interradial areas are deeply indented , diameter up to 10 mm ; covered with large and conspicuous plates amongst which the centrodorsal plate can usually be distinguished .
21 The treaty Lomé IV lays down that the two groups of countries should co-operate also in cultural matters , both in the wide , anthropological , sense of the term and the narrow one of the arts .
22 The theory of value which was the cornerstone of Capital asserts clearly that the very terms and their accepted connotations used in conventional descriptions of the political economy of the time , mystified and suppressed the true nature of , for example , exchange value , as an outcome or the dominance or capitalist interests .
23 First , it clearly focuses on where the physical symptoms of the problem are .
24 As they lurch with some aplomb through The Rolling Stones ‘ I Got The Blues ’ , Brokaw 's guitar falters horribly and the huddled masses groan in supplication .
25 For this reason it is helpful to record details of the elicitation and judgment process as it proceeds so that the bare bones of a grid can later have the flesh replaced .
26 The UN machine works only when the big powers want it to .
27 The fact that we are here again , just as keen to see the King 's Cross project coming into being , demonstrates clearly that the two schemes are and always have been separate .
28 As far as he 's concerned , there 's still far too much kicking and he argues strongly that the new laws have not helped , with forwards standing off and forward driving teams not able to maintain any offensive because they lose the ball in the opposition 22 .
29 A commonly recognised problem is a lack of coordination in conservation policy which comes about because the wide-ranging issues implied in its brief are traditionally dealt with by separate ‘ line ’ ministries .
30 Dense nesting arises either because the chosen sites are small or because high levels of social stimulation are advantageous in ensuring breeding synchronicity in short optimal breeding seasons .
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