Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 2 | Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part . |
| 3 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 4 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 5 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 6 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 7 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 8 | If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system . |
| 9 | Produced in six bi-monthly parts it gives an up-to-date , comprehensive summary of all decisions on human rights cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 10 | This is achieved by limiting the range of cases heard by the High Court , by extending the jurisdiction of the county court , ensuring that , in most cases , the same remedies are available in the county court as in the High Court , amending the transfer system , reviewing the costs sanction system that applies when a case is taken inappropriately in the High Court , improving the trial facilities at county courts by concentrating trials at centres where continuous trial facilities are available , providing new centres , creating a new tier of Circuit judges to take additional civil jurisdiction burdens , and increasing the number of people eligible for appointment as county court and district registrars or district judges . |
| 11 | If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only . |
| 12 | If the planning application is persisted with , I support the plea for calling it in , for the reasons given by the hon. Member for Beaconsfield . |
| 13 | Many clinicians have seized the opportunities implicit within the clinical directorate structure believing that in a cash limited system the most positive response to any threat to clinical freedom is to become involved in the discussions stemming from the financial restriction . |
| 14 | They have various strategies to cope with the showy behaviour of boys , such as giving more attention , allotting instant verbal or physical punishment , aligning the curriculum to interest them ; the normal deviant girl does not anyway present too many control problems . |
| 15 | I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev . |
| 16 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 17 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 18 | In desperation he attempted at dawn on the 27th to throw a force across the Meuse at Samogneux , but the attackers were caught up on wire entanglements hidden beneath the flooded river . |
| 19 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 20 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 21 | The Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus [ see p. 39155 ] on Nov. 11 ordered partial mobilization in all of its republics , instructing commanders to go to the Chechen capital , Grozny . |
| 22 | The notes floated in the still air , strong and clear . |
| 23 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 24 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 25 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
| 26 | ‘ Climatic geomorphology attempts to cope with the excessive complexity of natural parameters by holding variables such as structure , lithology and man constant . |
| 27 | The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary . |
| 28 | And the involuntary malice within the desperate attempts to remain on the safe side of the frontier of madness . |
| 29 | place the services with the proposed single-tier local authorities — i.e. between 15 to 51 authorities depending on the future structure of local government . |
| 30 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |