Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leather is strong , abrasion resistant and will conform to the shape of the foot . |
| 2 | Perhaps the blocking antibodies are all-important and can cope with the increased antigenic differences in hybrids , but this is only a speculation , and more work needs to be done . |
| 3 | The level at which build-up becomes harmful to health is indeterminate and will vary with the circumstances . |
| 4 | I 'd also use more in the plant line than Java Moss , like some Java Fern which is indestructible and will grow on the bogwood . |
| 5 | The odd large smooth stone and clumps of plants — including Java Fern which is indestructible and will grow on the bogwood — will give you a more varied effect . |
| 6 | As there is a danger that people will be confused and might buy from the second retailer thinking that they are buying from the other , he should be able to obtain an injunction preventing the second retailer from continuing to use the name he has chosen . |
| 7 | The definition of public expenditure is by no means clear-cut and must depend upon the question at issue . |
| 8 | The way formal religion is incorporated into a way of life is not constant and must relate to the social experience particular to certain groups and even to individuals . |
| 9 | Thus , if one had a bronze with , say , 2 per cent of tin , where the tin content of the comparable genuine bronzes lay between 5 and 10 per cent , this would be unusual and would count against the piece but it certainly would not condemn it . |
| 10 | In this particular organisation planning will not take a major role because the system is already well-defined and should operate in the same way on a day-to-day basis . |
| 11 | I will assume that you are not completely unfit and can cope with the demands of normal training . |
| 12 | The fabric is cut to the size of the glass , although you must be careful to ensure that the grain of the fabric runs in a straight line , otherwise it is very obvious and will distract from the finished design . |
| 13 | Ministers say the project is too costly and will call for the project , known as Super-SARA , to be abandoned at a meeting of EEC research ministers next month . |
| 14 | Addresses are parenthetical and can occur in the sorts of locations that other parentheticals can occupy . |
| 15 | Indeed it is often the case that a powerful person is not necessarily somebody who is physically strong but will depend upon the extent to which that person can get others to do as he or she wishes . |
| 16 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
| 17 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |
| 18 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 19 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 20 | But often the information will be ambiguous and may refer to the land or individual in respect of which you are searching . |
| 21 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 22 | So she could not let her go alone but must stand in the crowds being shoved , the smell of greasy food and litter breathed over her in this hot air , and the constant blare of noise grinding at her . |
| 23 | The three trombones are therefore only equal to one , and the bass line is thus not so heavy as would appear from the list of instruments employed on it . |
| 24 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 25 | I was inclined to be star-struck and would creep into the gallery to listen to some of the singers . |
| 26 | Excursion Tickets were multi-coloured and must date from the early days of the Railway . |
| 27 | Indeed , use of organic adhesives in metalwork may have been more common than would appear from the surviving archaeological record . |
| 28 | Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast . |
| 29 | Bill Hand was a little fellow with a little name — he only stood 5ft 6ins in his stockinged feet — but he was tough and sturdy and could play on the wing or at inside-forward and did so to considerable effect for the Palace in the early 1920s . |
| 30 | If one was punctual and could pay in the long run , why incur the debt at all ? |