Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Cold climates are said to affect blacks adversely because of their body fat deficiencies , weak ankles would account for the lack of black hockey players , etc .
2 For example , the gear-shift level must exist within the gearbox/passenger compartment intersection , which itself must contain the discrete sub-spaces of movement envelopes which are associated with functions of the gearbox .
3 Any budding talents should go to the rehearsals held from 6–7pm every Wednesday before the event .
4 The plaintiffs argued that certain specific projects would result in the loss of wildlife covered by the Act , and that therefore their own interests would be harmed .
5 Political as well as economic reasons might contribute to the use of a standardised design .
6 To register to vote for example , a union citizen must have been resident in Great Britain on the qualifying date of the tenth of October or fifteenth of September for Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as British or other commonwealth citizens and citizens of other member states who wish to be candidates of the elections for the European parliament must conform to the same nomination procedures as candidates have hitherto .
7 His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission .
8 The extent to which pupils at school progressing from the GCSE to A levels will find an unbridgeable gap will depend on the way in which ‘ differentiating ’ the curriculum and the assessment of pupils is interpreted in different schools , and for different courses .
9 Our most grateful thanks must go to the teachers from Herts .
10 There is a lot of racism in the school , and I have often believed that a lot of multicultural talk should start with the staff before it starts with the pupils .
11 Other writers have complained , particularly in discrimination cases , that conciliation officers are too willing to encourage settlement at any price and fail to provide the support an unrepresented applicant may need against the relatively advantaged position of the employer ( Gregory , 1987 ) .
12 The course will also look back at garden history and explore some of the ways in which budding designers can learn from the great designers of the past .
13 Strong walkers will proceed beyond the Lochan Dubha and climb the easy ridge of Druim Hain directly facing until reaching a well-built obelisk commanding a sensational view of Loch Coruisk in a surround of wild mountains .
14 However , the danger with relying upon such a model is that the necessity to summarize and simplify the more relevant economic relationships can lead to the omission or misrepresentation of some important features .
15 The possible solutions will depend on the severity of the handicap , but parents should be encouraged to consider ways in which their children might remain creatively active , thus continuing the process of education rather than allowing the person to retrogress .
16 At last the respectable citizen can take to the streets and get himself home . ’
17 He wondered what hideous deformity might lie beneath the silken cloak and the deep dark hood .
18 In what follows my main purposes are : ( 1 ) to demonstrate the patterns of simplification that can be traced by comparing our inner-city data with that of the city-wide random sample ‘ doorstep ’ survey and the outer-city community studies ; and ( 2 ) to consider how far a theory of strong and weak ties can account for the maintenance of complex patterns and the development of simpler ones .
19 THIS season 's six European finalists will emerge from the matches to be played later today , with Barcelona and Sampdoria starting as very warm favourites for the European Cup final to be played at Wembley on May 20 .
20 This as yet unpublished interview will appear in the show 's catalogue , to be published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux .
21 Differences over the political future of Civic Forum deepened , and it was agreed in February 1991 [ see p. 38017 ] that two separate political parties would emerge from the umbrella organization of Civic Forum : the Civic Democratic Party ( Klaus ' wing ) and Civic Movement ( consisting of many of President Havel 's closest associates such as Dienstbier and Pithart ) .
22 This refers to the way in which a particular experimenter may influence different subjects , or to the effect that different experimenters may have on the same subject .
23 Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance .
24 Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work .
25 Where they did not , different rules could apply within the EC and EFTA .
26 In Spring Fever , he takes a look at what climatic change could mean for the flora and fauna of the British mainland .
27 French artists will stay at the Villa ( designed by Kunio Kato of the University of Kyoto ) for three to twelve months .
28 Compulsive spenders will binge in the same way as alcoholics ’
29 If outline permission for the course is given , detailed plans will follow in the hope that work can get under way this summer .
30 I believe that the British historical galleries should conclude in the late nineteenth century ( c. 1880 ) , and everything later should be integrated with the international modern collection .
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