Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Would like to develop training areas which would help offset the problems of lack of mobility of staff … regretfully none of our posts are supernumerary and hence the problems of removing staff from their work to attend training is a real difficulty ’ …
2 Investors should be aware that these securities are irredeemable and therefore the real return in future years is vulnerable if the UK inflation rate rises again .
3 Opposite Passengers crowd onto a train in India where the steam trains are legendary and still the dream of travellers .
4 Some of these Lutheran priests also claim that women 's bodies are impure and so the presence of a woman at the altar would pollute the sacred rites .
5 Dissection classes with small groups of students are excellent since even the squeamish can take part as onlookers , whilst a fellow student performs the dissection .
6 RTH cards are different and yet the populations serviced overlap and use whatever service is geographically nearer .
7 In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible .
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