Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes of BURMA and its growing generation is opening with speed and certainty — the PINNACLE OF BRITISH and European superiority is crumbling to dust — BEWARE the pent up strength of all Asiatics is well near bursting point-THE STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL FREEDOM OF ALL SUBJECT PEOPLES IS SURE TO BEGIN IN THE NOT DISTANT FUTURE . |
| 2 | However , the cost of these trips is minimal compared with the cost of an executive 's failure in an overseas assignment . |
| 3 | The lyricism of long-spun melodies is impossible to sustain on the piano , and the rhetoric of hammered chords , thrilling when orchestrated , can seem a mere mannerism , as in the finale of No. 3 and the middle movement of No. 4 . |
| 4 | The survival of H. contortus infection on tropical pastures is variable depending on the climate and degree of shade , but the infective larvae are relatively resistant to desiccation and some may survive for 1-3 months on pasture or in faeces . |
| 5 | Central to any definition of apraxia is the idea that any paralysis or weakness of limbs is insufficient to account for the movement disorder . |
| 6 | The effect of the Moscow trials is difficult to gauge from the immediate reaction . |
| 7 | The strike record in the immediate pre-war years is difficult to reconcile with the notion that workers ' protest was becoming less intense . |
| 8 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 9 | Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year . |
| 10 | A very familiar example is that quoted above ( p. 175 ) , where the difference between falling and rising intonation on question-tags is supposed to indicate to the listener what sort of response is expected . |
| 11 | The procedure in " documents-only " arbitrations is difficult to distinguish from the procedure in some references to an expert . |
| 12 | But an evolutionary decrease in the rate of ageing in humans is likely to occur over the next few generations . |
| 13 | Neither the probate line of cases nor the donor line of cases is appropriate to apply to the present situation which is entirely different and I respectfully agree with the observations of Staughton L.J . |
| 14 | The supply of hours is likely to depend on the standard real wage , the overtime real wage and workers ’ preferences for income and leisure . |
| 15 | A stream of trade complaints is ready to burst on the administration the day the round ends . |
| 16 | The loyalty of cabinet members and other political appointees is likely to weaken in the face of intense cross pressures , and senior career officers in the bureaucracy , from the beginning , may not share the president 's policy preferences . |
| 17 | In the weak field case the field of the ligands is weak compared with the inter-electron interactions , so that the quantum numbers L and S remain valid . |
| 18 | Conventional railways may of course provide only a partial answer to congestion-busting , and Regional Railways is happy to co-operate with the promoters of the proliferating light rail schemes . |
| 19 | The demand to paint rolling hills is vast compared to the wish to paint flowing curves . |