Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , an emphasis on the complexity of the issues at hand prohibits the portrayal of the Black community as either problem or victim , a recurrent feature of much race relations discourse and popular debate , and a recurrent feature also of much discussion of inner city communities generally . |
| 2 | It tackles the power of the Big Three cider makers and organises regular cider festivals . |
| 3 | The relative abundance records the percentage of the total population represented by each species . |
| 4 | Luke records the event in the strongest way : Jesus was the one who |
| 5 | So a doctor writes down his patient 's symptoms , an architect writes down his client 's requirements , Hansard records the proceedings of the British Parliament , we write down friends ' addresses , telephone numbers , recipes , knitting patterns , and so on . |
| 6 | In the example given , " original variance " records the difference between original budget cost and the estimated final cost given in the last report ; " current variance " records the difference between the latest approved budget and current estimated final cost . |
| 7 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 8 | The excellence of the programme has been recognised by the European Community which aids the project through the European Social Fund , and staff at the Centre share their expertise with colleagues in training centres in Ireland and the Netherlands . |
| 9 | Skiing involves the survival of the fittest . |
| 10 | 2 ) Excision which involves the cutting of the clitoris and of all or part of the smaller lips ( labia minora ) 3 ) Infibulation which involves the cutting of the smaller lips of the clitoris , at least the anterior two thirds of the inside part of the larger lips ( labia majora ) and the stitching together of the two sides of the vulva . |
| 11 | In the case of processing nouns , this process involves the location of the semantic head ( superordinate term ) , and the exploitation of other information present ( e.g. modifiers and predications ) . |
| 12 | Knill claims that NERC now involves the whole of the environmental science community . |
| 13 | Such a view would , of course , be in conflict with the model I am proposing here , which involves the teacher in the experimental application of ideas . |
| 14 | Saying that they are outer things involves the denial of the autonomous status of self-testimony . |
| 15 | Many VHS-format machines have this , and some also have ‘ picture insert ’ , which usually involves the over-recording of the original picture without affecting the sound . |
| 16 | It has announced three options , the most ambitious of which involves the extension of the various stations ' 30 year operating lives by between three and seven years . |
| 17 | This research involves the interviewing of the 12-14 year old children of divorce and both parents , matched with a sample of ‘ intact ’ families using a longitudinal design . |
| 18 | Büdel distinguished three generations of geomorphology namely dynamic which concerns the study of particular processes ; climatic which considers the total complex of present processes in their climatic framework ; and climatogenetic geomorphology which involves the analysis of the entire relief including features adjusted to the contemporary climate and also produced by former climates . |
| 19 | The clearest instance of all involves the dénouements of the new drama . |
| 20 | Although a plot of sorts involves the intrigues of the Egyptian Queen , whose enfeebled brother and consort has no power to break her obsessive love for ‘ the Wanderer ’ , the story turns on the simple fact that Odysseus must for ever love an unattainable ideal . |
| 21 | The most likely method involves the leasing of the necessary hardware , and the Scottish case is strengthened by projected payback of well over 100 per cent a year from the savings to the national economy in eliminating or minimising congestion — estimated to cost up to £1.5 billion a year in Scotland . |
| 22 | According to Bartlett and Ghoshal , the transnational company is meant to be the vehicle for international marketing of the 1990s that integrates the strengths of the three former culturally-dependent types of company . |
| 23 | A century later Bill Cater , parallels the similarities between the old and the new . |
| 24 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 25 | The theory postulates the presence in the human body of blood , phlegm , yellow bile and black bile . |
| 26 | Alec Guinness plays the epitome of the Decent British Officer Johnny who decides , in order to re-establish military discipline and morale among his men , to play ball with his captors by building a bridge , militarily essential to the Japanese . |
| 27 | Cordelia plays the part of the good child in contrast to her wicked sisters Goneril and Regan . |
| 28 | Durie plays the winner of the second semi-final , between Brighton 's Julie Salmon and Manchester 's Amanda Grunfeld , in tomorrow 's final . |
| 29 | He regularly plays the ball outside the 18-yard area before kicking it upfield . |
| 30 | Have frightful dream in which Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr Darcy , loses a leg , plays the piano in the nude and is pursued by flock of symbolic sheep from room to room of vast baroque mansion . |