Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes .
2 But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent .
3 It is from the chaos of spontaneous analogizing that creativity breaks into the ordered by closed realm of analytic thinking .
4 Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population .
5 Without some knowledge of research it 's very hard to keep your teaching fresh and lively and interesting and relevant , and the other factor is of course that research contributes to the long-term economic base of the country .
6 Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning .
7 ( Beyond doubt that characterization lies behind the logico-linguistic criterion considered earlier . )
8 However , spotlights need to be positioned so that light falls in the right place .
9 Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering .
10 a method of folding in which each fold opens in the opposite direction to its neighbour , giving a concertina or pleated effect .
11 In a vector GIS the set of M different output maps would be rasterized and a count made of the frequency that each cell appears in the final map .
12 Each entry goes into the Grand Draw , so the more monthly competitions you enter , the greater your chances of winning .
13 This finding concurs with the personal study of Payne-James .
14 The fact that she held to her theory of carpel polymorphism , despite the overwhelming criticism levelled against it , in some measure detracts from the overall impact of her morphological work .
15 This judgement applies to the I- dominant poems ( 88 , 89 ) as to the Thou- dominant ones , such as 35 , where after the first quatrain excusing the Friend 's faults ( ‘ No more be griev 'd at that which thou hast done ’ ) the second suddenly recoils on itself : This is indeed to bring a plea ‘ 'gainst myself ’ , to become an accomplice or ‘ accessory ’ , plunging oneself in ‘ civil war ’ .
16 In many countries this elite acts as the chief negotiator with transnational companies and therefore its members become beneficiaries from negotiations with logging contractors , purchase of agricultural estates , permission to sell agricultural inputs , purchase of agricultural inputs , and other policy measures .
17 This story improves on the original version emanating from Arran himself , that the king was almost dead when Beaton took his hand and traced his signature .
18 This interaction depends on the extensive twist introduced in these strands by conserved β- bulges .
19 This technique fails for the central question of how to write the relativistic law of gravitation because Newton 's law of gravitation is not compatible with SR and so we lack a starting point .
20 This direction coincides with the maximum horizontal stress direction predicted from the break-out orientation .
21 Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power .
22 As a consequence this response breaks with the traditional obsession of the mainstream of corporate law scholarship .
23 A lovely path goes up alongside amongst trees and in a few minutes leads to the open corrie and an impressive mountain scene : directly ahead is Beinn Dearg , the high mass on the left is Beinn Alligin and on the right is the last satellite of the Liathach range .
24 A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force .
25 This study differentiates between the three types of risk described in Chapter 1 , objective , estimated and subjective .
26 In conclusion , this study shows for the first time that reduced fetal growth is followed by higher death rates from cardiovascular disease in adult life .
27 Success or failure of this experiment depends on the basic human ability to impose a delay between the stimulus and the response .
28 Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore .
29 ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore .
30 The only exception to this rule occurs for the combined transition of the steps T3pG4 and C9pA10 where changes are also seen to occur in the centre of the dodecamer .
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