Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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31 In their two contrasting styles we return to the main theme of this chapter : boyo Neil 's communicating style emphasising ‘ commonality ’ ; and the formal prime ministerial Margaret Thatcher style emphasising ‘ control ’ .
32 In the third part of the series in which our road testers name the cars they rate as the best , the ultimate in luxury saloons comes to the fore .
33 An oil refinery at Llandarcy ( Swansea ) was started when smaller tankers were used than the modern supertankers which dock in the deeper water of the ria , or drowned valley , of Milford Haven .
34 Naturally , if one goes farther back in time the evidence becomes more shaky , but nevertheless there apparently were reversals in late Permian and late Cretaceous times which coincide with the two most important extinction levels .
35 If the phase excitation is changed it is this other pair of rotor teeth which align with the newly-excited stator teeth .
36 Their latest grasping proposal is to impose charges on current accounts which stay in the black instead of just those which run into the red .
37 Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century .
38 The aim of the projects is to bring about change in the degree curriculum which will encourage students to develop qualities and skills which extend beyond the specialised knowledge of their degree courses .
39 As an inside exploration of culture this might also be considered to be a ‘ liminal ’ or ‘ liminoid ’ phenomenon ( V. Turner 1974 , 1977 ) , for as it delves beneath the surface phenomena , the subjective analysis can reveal unconscious categories and transformational operations which lie between the dual poles and such exclusively preferred categories as ‘ cops and robbers ’ .
40 By the time of the Middle Ages when the two swords of the secular and the spiritual were sheathed together in ruling Christendom , the official spokesman for orthodoxy , St Thomas Aquinas , could declare : ‘ Heresy is a sin which merits not only excommunication but death , for it is worse to corrupt the faith which is the life of the soul than to issue counterfeit coins which administer to the secular life .
41 The connections between pins 4 and 6 and the battery negative line keep the unused inputs which exist on the 4013 at Logic O and prevent false operation .
42 If the Church is to keep its teenagers , especially , it has to compete successfully with many other attractions and activities which appeal to the young .
43 The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% .
44 An established team work in partnership with clients developing innovative programmes which add to the human resource and organisation capability .
45 Tablets which look like the sweet Smarties but are be harmful to children have been lost in Gloucestershire .
46 At the lower levels of the British judicial system are the magistrates ' courts which deal with the overwhelming majority of criminal cases .
47 When stock checking , the reps have the authority to reorder any titles which fall below the agreed number .
48 Secondly , this sector is highly competitive , there is a complete absence of the monopolies which predominate in the formal sector .
49 In the 1914 period the custom was to turn the aircraft upside down and then to load the wings with bags of sand or lead shot distributed so as to represent the various aerodynamic loads which occur under the worst conditions , such as pulling out of a dive .
50 My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the dangers which lie within the social charter of making European industry uncompetitive in relation to Japanese industry and to others .
51 This alternative , which he calls the strategy matrix , essentially requires top-level corporate management to formulate six to eight key strategies which go across the various subsidiary businesses .
52 The tentacle scales which arise on the lateral arm plate or on the abradial part portion of the pore furthest from the mid-line of the arm are counted , i.e. L4–5 .
53 We know that it can only oscillate at frequencies which correspond to the fundamental note and its overtones .
54 John Lyons , for instance , while complaining that ‘ much linguistic theorising is vitiated by the uncritical transference by linguists and philosophers of attitudes which derive from the cultural peculiarities of English and a few other so-called world languages ’ ( 1982 ) , himself goes on to rest part of his view of literacy , implicitly , on exactly such ‘ cultural peculiarities ’ of written English .
55 Water and carbon dioxide are the two starting materials from which green plants manufacture the sugars which are themselves further elaborated by plant and animal cells into the incredible array of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules which exist in the natural world .
56 R. F. V. Heuston summarises this by saying that there is a distinction between the rules which govern on the one hand the composition and the procedure and , on the other hand , the area of power , of a sovereign legislature .
57 And certainly those treatises which deal with the spiritual and physical advantages of hearing the Mass ( which ranged from not ageing during the period of the Mass to its efficacy in promoting work or journeys ) stress the belief in the power of the sacrament to affect all aspects of life .
58 Since the owners of capital have always had , and continue to have , the ear of government it is their views which prevail in the legislative sphere .
59 Products which fall in the top left-hand group are those which are in attractive markets and which the company handles well .
60 One of the problems with many systems as presently marketed , observes Price , is that companies with products which comply to the basic Posix 1003.1 interface standard promote their products as ‘ open systems . ’
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