Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations .
2 A good range of oven temperatures ( 50 to 250°C ) gives you more scope in the type of dishes you can cook — some foods , such as meringues , need to be cooked at lower temperatures .
3 This gives it more relevance in the eyes of head teachers .
4 Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect .
5 Whatever the substance of the case against him , there still remains something fundamentally obscurantist in the demonisation of Saddam .
6 A planet at regular intervals regresses , that is , stops its westward motion among the stars ( as viewed from earth ) and for a short time retraces its path eastward before continuing its journey westward once again .
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