Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | phenomena which have only arisen in the period of advanced capitalism in which the state has intervened directly both in the organization of production and in consumption . |
| 3 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |
| 4 | French retail sales fell by 3.6% in the year to November , while business confidence has fallen more sharply in the past two quarters than at any time in the 1980s . |
| 5 | This , conveniently , is at a time when sterling has fallen far enough against the Deutschemark to make it potentially competitive within ERM . |
| 6 | In Britain denominational planning has depended too exclusively on the ‘ geographical map ’ . |
| 7 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |
| 9 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 10 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 11 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 12 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 13 | The crisis has come too quickly for the company , which only this morning was due to launch a new truck . |
| 14 | New work has looked more deeply into the toxins ' structure to find out how they do their job so specifically . |
| 15 | The provision of art and design education has grown relatively slowly in the post-war period so that in November 1979 , for example , there were only 34,707 students taking courses leading to recognized qualifications in art and design of whom 19,988 were on non-advanced courses , and 14,719 on advanced courses ; these represented just over two per cent of all students in further education studying for recognized qualifications . |
| 16 | The Polytechnic of Wales has grown very considerably during the present decade . |
| 17 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 18 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 19 | If anything , public expenditure has grown less quickly in the UK ; in 1964 it was joint third highest , with Germany , of the fourteen countries shown in Table 15.3 ; by 1989 it was only eleventh highest of those same fourteen countries . |
| 20 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 21 | Burridge ( 1969 ) has written most persuasively about the effects which fieldwork can have on the anthropologist , describing the prophetic experience this can produce . |
| 22 | ‘ The relative buoyancy of this sector in the early 1990s was one reason why Scotland has suffered less severely in the recession than the rest of the UK , ’ he added . |
| 23 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 24 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's such a shame because the team has done so well on the pitch and manager Barry Fry is trying to do his best . |
| 26 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 27 | This country has done very well in the negotiations and we have got an agreement that is right for this country . |
| 28 | Certainly the petrochemicals industry as a whole has done very well in the past couple of years , and we with it . |
| 29 | She has done extremely well in the wholesale trade . |
| 30 | Although this species has occurred more regularly in the past decade than formerly , no very significant change in status seems likely . |