Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 9 | There is limestone cropping out on the ridge above , and in places it breaks through the thin ground cover even among the trees below . |
| 10 | PRINCESS Diana yesterday revealed the pangs she feels over the Royal rift … with her beloved Mercedes car . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The third form of cash costs to Britain of her membership of the EEC is the direct payments she makes into the central budget . |
| 16 | One technique is to look at its strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats it faces from the external environment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With silver-plated cutlery , part of its appeal is the scratches it gets in the early period of its life . |
| 19 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 20 | The Centre is required to become self-supporting so that it is necessary to establish links with government and the business and commercial worlds and to ensure that the programs it produces for the academic community are also attractive to the commercial market-place . |
| 21 | And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right . |
| 22 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 23 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 24 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 25 | If the wife 's level of income is sufficient , the mortgagee will probably consent to the release of the husband from liability under the mortgage so long as the wife covenants to assume this and , depending upon the practice of the mortgagee , will specify what clauses it requires in the appropriate conveyance or transfer . |
| 26 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 27 | Immunity to Trichostrongylus as in Ostertagia is slowly acquired and in sheep and probably goats it wanes during the periparturient period . |