Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know that bit when in the last act where they 're sometimes sticking together |
| 2 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 3 | The choice of research tactics follows not from research doctrine , but from decisions in each case as to the best available techniques : the problem defines the methods used , not vice versa . |
| 4 | By telling his or her own story of drinking and its consequences , the recovering alcoholic is often able to get through the Protective denial system of the sufferer so that the sufferer himself or herself , through personal identification with many elements of that story and with the associated feelings , is gradually able to make his or her own diagnosis . |
| 5 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 6 | It gives little guidance as to the individual weightings to be attached to explanatory variables for evaluating between them , or the precise ways in which they interact , and lacks predictive power ( Gill , 1969 ) . |
| 7 | Blatant sexist readings are on the decline , and where they still exist they have little effect because of the successful appropriation by women of their own discourse . |
| 8 | As a form of enterprise entirely consistent with that thinking and with the given social order , Co-operation could command the support of John Stuart Mill just as much as it responded to the exhortation of Samuel Smiles . |
| 9 | Unfortunately we 've had to make this change because of the new points limit which was imposed on us which has meant that our higher points riders have had to go . |
| 10 | That is a disgrace both to this Parliament and to the Tory party in Scotland . |
| 11 | The case studies of school self-evaluation which the Open University has carried out in Oxfordshire and elsewhere suggest that teachers are for the most part ignorant of this literature and of the various research strategies , mainly derived from social science , by which valid and reliable evidence about their professional activities might be gathered and judged . |
| 12 | " Quite concretely the Communist Party wants to discuss with representatives of the Labour party the difficulties which they consider stand in the way of the realization of this unity and of the Communist Party becoming affiliated to the Labour Party " . |
| 13 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 14 | From this reserve and from the immediate disposal of existing assets , trusts can make acquisitions of new assets . |
| 15 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 16 | This helps to explain why more jobs have been lost in this recession than in the early 1980s . |
| 17 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 18 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 19 | However , the size of the database resulted in some confusion as to the best way to proceed with the enquiry , and the next few stages were undertaken on a trial and error basis . |
| 20 | There is some confusion as to the exact origins of the first Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Committee , but it probably derived from the activities of the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) in assisting women and girls to find skilled occupations . |
| 21 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 22 | Calculation of standard errors of sample statistics is generally more complicated for the sampling schemes described in this chapter than for the simple random sample . |
| 23 | He must come to terms with living with this consciousness and with the inherent problems he will face in revealing this knowledge to the outside in an ethnographic account . |
| 24 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 25 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 26 | We consider it to be most unlikely that the pleural lesion is the site of origin of this lymphoma because of the extensive lymphocytic infiltration elsewhere , the long history of bowel symptoms , and the similarity with other described cases . |
| 27 | Expressions used in this subsection and in the said Act of 1959 have the same meanings in this subsection as they have in that Act . |
| 28 | At this speed and with the invisible thread doing the damage it is almost impossible to see anything . |
| 29 | On the other hand , damages are not a discretionary remedy and so the courts do not have as much control over the award of this remedy as over the judicial review remedies . |
| 30 | You may not open or maintain a TESSA while you are under 18 or while you already maintain another TESSA whether with the same or any other Institution or Society . |