Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and I had a lot of er experience with with training dogs and all that for hunting the old foxes and all that . |
| 2 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 3 | We approach this by considering the elementary operations which are commonly used in the condensation of determinants . |
| 4 | Lee hoped to minimize the electoral consequences of this by encouraging the older members to retire , but with limited success . |
| 5 | Both suggest that the brain does this by monitoring the statistical properties of activity . |
| 6 | We did this by getting the smaller ones through the higher hole and the larger ones through the middle and lower parts . |
| 7 | The project is addressing this by using the same forms to assess a comparison group of 400 children who have had no contact with social workers . |
| 8 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 9 | She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality . |
| 10 | If it can be accepted , as empiricists do , that the process of empirical verification involves a separate and distinct process of consciousness than that of generating the ideal categories in the first place , then there is a basis for distinguishing between ideology and another form of knowledge , ‘ science ’ . |
| 11 | In Newham there was a greater availability of home care services but the development officer mentioned the following specific problems in relation to other services ( apart from that of getting the social services department to play a key worker role ) . |
| 12 | There are two stages to this conversion ; that of altering the electrical characteristics of the output from the ZX Spectrum and that of converting the character codes from Sinclair 's own internal format to true ASCII . |
| 13 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 14 | So without doubt one of the most important and difficult problems in cancer research is that of identifying the other mutations . |
| 15 | It was also shown that the pedagogical perspectives held by mainstream mathematical educators , broadly ‘ psychometric ’ , were such as to legitimate the broad outlines of a curriculum differentiated by ‘ ability ’ ( but not so clearly its differentiation by sex ) . |
| 16 | It would not be sensible for anyone other than staff with specific responsibilities in this area to get weighed down in mechanical details such as costing the specific details of any aspect of the school 's plans . |
| 17 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 18 | Part of the purpose of education reform was to delegate downwards from the Department of Education , closer to the chalk face , tasks such as determining the necessary budgets , teacher numbers , and so forth . |
| 19 | Nor did it seem to make any difference to ability to perform everyday activities ( such as selecting the correct coins for shopping ) which were poor for many in both samples . |
| 20 | However , Japan 's colonial and expansionist policies were hardly such as to strengthen the Asian nations . |
| 21 | Within a hundred years , Kepler resolved these by translating the planetary orbits into ellipses with the sun at a focus of each ellipse . |
| 22 | Once you have been bitten by the flower pressing bug , you will have no difficulty at all in choosing the prime specimens from your garden for hiding away in the presses . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there would be no point at all in sending the same samples to agricultural journalists , who would never have any occasion to write about the company 's products . |
| 24 | The possible alternative programmes which may be used to fulfil the desired objectives are compared based on the effectiveness of each in achieving the organisational objectives . |
| 25 | One half of our argument is that states ( and national states in particular ) are indeed conducting the functions outlined by Marxist and Weberian commentators : those of managing the social relations of capitalism and regulating and classifying individual citizens and their activities or moral careers . |
| 26 | The new technique came into its own by treating the infested garments for 72 hours in ten bubbles simultaneously . |
| 27 | They do so normally alongside another approach , the hope being that by putting the two ingredients together a synthesis will appear . |