Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 2 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 3 | Jardines has threatened that , unless the regulators leave it alone , it may delist the shares of companies it controls from the local stock exchange — 14% of the market 's capitalisation . |
| 4 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 5 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 6 | I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party . |
| 7 | Now the thing with the bar-tailed lark is that it just lives in the desert where nothing else does and to complicate matters it lives in the forbidden zone . |
| 8 | The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution . |
| 9 | to observe by following the reactions and negotiations of parties and political movements what happens to the British Government 's present initiative in Northern Ireland , its direct impact on and relationship to Irish politics , and its probable indirect effect on Scotland ; and to describe and analyse the kinds of political argument used ; |
| 10 | A first interim order may last up to eight weeks which corresponds with the usual period allowed for investigation under s37 ( s38(4) ) . |
| 11 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 12 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 13 | There is limestone cropping out on the ridge above , and in places it breaks through the thin ground cover even among the trees below . |
| 14 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 15 | ‘ We have less then six months to answer these and other questions which comes to the biggest and potentially most rewarding challenge of all the process of technology transfer to Pemex , ’ says Hopwood . |
| 16 | Modularization is not easy to define , but can be seen as one end of a spectrum of course structures which ranges from the linear to the modular , as follows : |
| 17 | There is increasing evidence of disillusionment among middle managers which goes beyond the long-established mid-career crisis literature . |
| 18 | PRINCESS Diana yesterday revealed the pangs she feels over the Royal rift … with her beloved Mercedes car . |
| 19 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 20 | It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals . |
| 21 | Also sometimes called an infant helper or primary helper , a teacher 's aide is someone without formal teaching qualifications who works alongside the regular class teacher . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 23 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 24 | A risk-averse individual would only be indifferent between transacting on the forward market and transacting on the future spot market if the terms he expects on the uncertain future spot market were sufficiently more favourable than the forward market to encourage him to take the risk . |
| 25 | The Council has also actively contributed towards the production of the ATCO ( Scotland ) draft Model Specification for Buses which builds on the existing DPTAC recommendations . |
| 26 | The third form of cash costs to Britain of her membership of the EEC is the direct payments she makes into the central budget . |
| 27 | One technique is to look at its strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats it faces from the external environment . |
| 28 | I find Lubin 's fingerwork in faster movements absolutely sparkling ; and the slightly more flowing tempi he adopts in the slower movements are more to my taste . |
| 29 | With silver-plated cutlery , part of its appeal is the scratches it gets in the early period of its life . |
| 30 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |