Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers . |
| 2 | ( That is assuming that the United Nations sorts out the regulatory problems . ) |
| 3 | This weakens the splitters ' argument that to reconstitute high-level meaning from the basic ingredients requires only the right recipe . |
| 4 | For all countries the ten-year difference in the two sets of pyramids demonstrates how the excess births of one generation moves through the population , creating a successive need for new schools , jobs , houses and , ultimately , pensions . |
| 5 | The stark juxtaposition of these two statements sums up the whole dilemma facing arts teachers , and consequently illustrates the central issue I want to discuss in this chapter . |
| 6 | Perhaps simple ‘ familiarity ’ of the rules and persons involved might be better in defining the inside , i.e. just feeling ‘ at home ’ with things indicates where the internal boundaries lie . |
| 7 | I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) . |
| 8 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 9 | For Sahlins demonstrates how the obscure histories of remote islanders take a place alongside our self-contemplations of a European past — a supposed history of civilisation — for their own contributions to a historical understanding . |
| 10 | Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 : |
| 11 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 12 | Comparing the average profiles brings out the stark contrast in the slopes of the two curves after the age of 30 which is partially explained by career interruption at marriage . |