Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is none the less possible for opponents to pick up the ball , so to speak , when Mrs Thatcher has put it down . |
| 2 | It helps to make it possible for people to face openly the ambivalence of the caring relationship on both sides , with the possibility of conflict where it exists . |
| 3 | Note : For Random Access media , there is no penalty for overestimating the number of blocks value as it is possible for LIFESPAN to detect when the media is full . |
| 4 | The very fact that The Star is even interested in Carter marks out the rather sizeable arena they are currently entering . |
| 5 | If one works in logarithms , the relationship between y and x becomes linear : Hence , it is quite simple for accountants to work out the learning rate for their industry/firm by converting observations of y and x to logarithms and regressing log x against log y . |
| 6 | Moreover , it would be very easy for Jones to check out the heat by collaborating with an electrochemist . |
| 7 | If we give the basis of the complaint , however , it is very easy for employers to look down the list and find out which employee comes from Linlithgow , Greenock and Port Glasgow , Aberdeen , North or Banff and Buchan . |
| 8 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 9 | As shown by Table III , the daily food intake and body weight gain during the first week on the diet were similar in rats fed either the oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid supplemented diet . |
| 10 | Mr Major resisted the temptation to leave some excise duties unchanged in order to hold down the inflation rate . |
| 11 | This extract is useful in order to illustrate how the field-worker , on the one policeman 's own admission , both needed to be tested and was successful in passing . |
| 12 | It is difficult late in life to put away the past , and start again , but you have all the means at your disposal to make a success of the venture . |
| 13 | At first glance , it would seem logical to add as much salt and glucose to the solution as possible in order to speed up the rehydration process . |
| 14 | Sharpe knew it was important for Dornberg to know where the Emperor was , for where Napoleon rode , that was the main French attack . |
| 15 | The issue will , however , continue to be important for negligence claims where the defendant wishes to seek immunity on the grounds that he acted as an arbitrator , as in Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 : see 14.5.3 . |
| 16 | More recently , stories have circulated that mechanical or electrical faults in factories are due to gremlins taking over the working of machines . |
| 17 | If subjects rated these junctions as relatively low on accident estimates then the types of transfer bias which Poulton ( 1989 , p.238 ) describes could have caused the first few low judgments to inflate subsequent ones . |
| 18 | The compact , organized attack of the Moors shook the Christians ; they were more used to single combats where the actions of one man could turn the day . |
| 19 | For Marx and Engels the existence of such a stage , or something like it , seemed essential in order to show fully the purely artificial and relative nature of both relations of production and private property in capitalism . |
| 20 | His orders were to apply the methods that had proved so successful in Vienna to mop up the surviving Jewish influence at the heart of the Reich . |
| 21 | He issues an encyclical saying hard drugs should be made cheaply available to addicts to cut out the mobsters , and insists that every child ought to be a wanted child . |
| 22 | Men can still realise what women do , but it is difficult for women to understand how the men play . ’ |
| 23 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 24 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 25 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 26 | We will begin by illustrating the simplest form of melodic construction , where the melody is formed entirely by repetitions of a small rhythmic cell ( Example 11 ) : Example 11 is the first half of the melody , modulating from E minor to G. Notice how the melody , though apparently continuous , falls into four phrases , forming two main sentences . |
| 27 | Its position relative to E affects only the size of the projection . |