Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Britain 's 56 area Probation Committees have a statutory responsibility for the efficient carrying out the work of the Probation Service , mainly through delegated management by the chief probation officer .
2 The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history .
3 In 9a ) , for consideration of the representative volume element , Hill calculates the volume average of for example the stress as the integral taken over the volume , divided by that volume .
4 We also run a Hi-Watt 50 amp through a Marshall Emulator ; that goes through the direct send in the rack to the desk , so the sound man out front gets that as well as the mics on Bryan 's two Vox amps .
5 However , three other power bases do depend much more on the capacity of the powerful to affect directly the perceptions of the less powerful , even when the latter are resisting that influence .
6 Mark Hudson Out of the strong came forth the sweetness Not so much an installation as a duration piece created with treacle and sugar cubes .
7 Throughout the song the rhythm of the vocal follows not the regular periods of dance music but the irregular accents of the words .
8 Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession .
9 His father could hardly complain ; not far away in Manchester at that period only 43% of the children of the working-class reached even the age of five .
10 These failures arose not only from Edward 's lack of adequate financial resources , but also from the effectiveness of Philip VI 's resistance and the reluctance of the English to take on the French in pitched battle , as the stand-off at Buironfosse showed .
11 It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic .
12 What changes in the 1970s set up the forces , working through the world market and multinational corporation networks , to generate a new international division of labour ?
13 Neil Edwards , the 27-year-old Harlequins lock forward who broke his nose and had stitches inserted in a gashed lip in the 1810 win over the Irish , did not play for his club on Saturday but hopes to be fit to face Bristol this weekend .
14 The man on the moped threw back the flap of his satchel , glanced round , fingered the radio transmitter which would send the signal .
15 Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive .
16 From there they would flow outwards to the masses through all state agencies , which by the 1930s included even the family .
17 Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution … for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and of the kingdom : how to revive their sense of citizenship , with its privileges which they have lost , and its responsibilities which they have forgotten .
18 The first annual report of the Oxford House mission in 1884 set this programme out most clearly : " Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution to the East End question , for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and the Kingdom " .
19 SATURDAY , AM Neighbourhood clean-up patrols gather by the thousands to sweep up the mess .
20 Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office .
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