Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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1 | a local government official , lawyer , accountant , banker , customs broker , labor contractor and in most cases the owner of factory land and buildings . |
2 | In general the cosmic gods were represented in human form , but this was not an absolute rule and in some aspects the god might assume an animal or hybrid shape . |
3 | The Spanish empire , which stretched over the American continent from California to the Straits of Magellan , was the most imposing political structure of the Western world ; to Napoleon it was still the greatest supplier of silver and to British merchants the greatest unexploited market . |
4 | The herpetic lesions may involve the opening of the urethra and in some cases the infection spreads to the bladder . |
5 | pH >7 was used to define abnormal alkalinity in the oesophagus because in normal volunteers the pH of the oesophagus is between 4 and 7 for 96% of the time . |
6 | But there are revealing similarities between the two explanations , quite apart from the tact that in both cases the ‘ authority ’ on homosexuality is an avowed heterosexual male , and one cited anonymously at that . |
7 | The segmental plate or eusternum is subdivided into three sclerites , the presternum , basisternum and sternellum and in generalized forms the basisternum is separated from the sternellum by a transverse suture connecting the apophyseal pits — points of cuticular invagination from which arises a pair of furcal arms forming part of the thoracic endoskeleton ( p. 81 ) . |
8 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
9 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
10 | One AE almost immediately handed in a form for a telegraphic transfer and within 15 minutes the client 's funds were being transferred to the company 's bank . |
11 | Such attacks provoked strong local indignation and on several occasions the UVF and UDA had issued similar justifications after attacks on republicans . |
12 | It can be very difficult for people infected or at risk of HIV infection to decide whether or not to have a child because in some cases the HIV virus can be passed on . |
13 | Sometimes their demands and requests invoke an aggressive response from the child while in other families the child just ignores the request or blatantly refuses to comply . |
14 | if you like so it pinches the two positive charges off the hydrogen cos in these equations the charges must must balance as well so that if you just cross the double positive out you need to you ca n't write it in but you need to remember that it wants to become a double positive given |
15 | The news was a body blow and for several months the company was on a knife edge . |
16 | When it began , the land was without life of any kind and on such beaches the eggs were safe from sea-dwelling marauders . |
17 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
18 | The process was marked by negotiation and bargaining and in these circumstances the hierarchical central-local relationship broke down and constraints were imposed mutually on all sides ’ . |
19 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
20 | A poet 's imagery throughout the descriptions of storm and weather is strengthened by a visual exactness and a sense almost of an external agency inimical to man : it is no accident that at many points the movement of waves is compared to the malice of active devils . |
21 | It came to the conclusion that in many ways the object-oriented paradigm simply emphasises best practice for existing approaches to coding . |
22 | Whatever may have happened , it was treated as an act of war and in these circumstances the perpetrators forfeited all rights . |
23 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
24 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
25 | The demised property may be part only of the premises on which the tenant carries on business and in such cases the turnover may need to be apportioned . |
26 | In fact this difference is not usually of much consequence because in both cases the practical strengths are well below what they ought to be . |
27 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
28 | Crucially , there was evidence that in similar cases the defendants generally did not rely on the clause , but negotiated settlements , which perhaps indicated that the defendants did not regard the clause as reasonable . |
29 | Indeed , it is reasonable to ask the question whether irritable bowel syndrome is a disease of the motor side of bowel motility at all ; there is evidence that in some patients the abnormality is one of visceral sensation . |
30 | It will need positive leadership and in many cases the provision of a skilled person to initiate and guide the home group evangelistic programme . |