Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 2 | Contrary to your account , there has never been a disagreement between the National Radiological Protection Board and the Ministry of Defence about this or about the general form of possible surveys . |
| 3 | We can see from this that in the technical sense most large and many small organisations can be described as bureaucracies . |
| 4 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 5 | The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations . |
| 6 | I live close to the Union Canal and use its towpath for cycling , so my comments will relate to this and to the neighbouring Forth-Clyde Canal . |
| 7 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 8 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 9 | Did they represent a time when women gathered apart from men , experiencing their own primal potency , and sharing their own secrets with one another and with the pubescent girls ? |
| 10 | Our objective is to ensure that our charges , taking one year with another and despite the additional burden of JAA , do n't rise faster than inflation . |
| 11 | Single pieces of card , were used in some trials , in others several were used in a variety of positions relative to one another and to the central strip . |
| 12 | The social significance of this ( and one linking it to the theorists we have discussed earlier ) lay in the fact that large numbers of individuals , uprooted from their established communities and families were adapting to one another and to the existing Chicago population . |
| 13 | A CONSTITUTION MAY BE DEFINED as a body of laws , customs , and conventions that define the composition and powers of organs of the state and that regulate the relations of the various state organs to one another and to the private citizen . |
| 14 | Not only this but in the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels consider the charge made against communism that there are ‘ eternal truths , such as Freedom , Justice , etc. , that are common to all states of society . |
| 15 | Little came of this but in the next decade , the 1790s , the French armies were to use the large-scale production of hydrogen by decomposition to some effect when balloons first found military use . |
| 16 | It can do this because during the recent election campaign , there was no great disagreement about economic policy among the parties . |
| 17 | The first fish purchased were the Corydoras Arcuatus , the Skunk Cory , called this because of the black stripe running along the arch of the back . |
| 18 | Is this because of the strange life your mother forced on you or is it a natural trait of character ? ’ |
| 19 | At present all the pressure for reform is on the secondary schools , and this because of the new wave of vocationalism that has swept over education since the late l970s . |
| 20 | Was this because of the over accident ? |
| 21 | Youth boss Ray Hankin said : ‘ Over the season we will get points from games like this because of the hard work we put in . |
| 22 | But the psychoanalytic theory of paranoia enables us to see that these two equally-well-attested interpretations are not in any way in conflict with one another because in the latent content of paranoia we find both a tendency to symbolize the father as the sun and a delusion of persecution concerning him which in a typically paranoid way denies the homosexual factor by saying I do not love him , he hates me . |
| 23 | A mould is made round it in detachable pieces , and in these a wax casting-mould is moulded or cast and then filled with a core ; and the bronze is cast from this as in the direct method . |
| 24 | They were lovers now , and he preferred today to dwell on that than on the knottier problems . |
| 25 | We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person . |
| 26 | D and p are scaled atomic population differences ( P22 — P11 ) and polarisation ( P21 ) respectively : scaling is such that in the small signal limit D = 1 , p = x " and then , for consistency in ( 7.3a ) , 2C = — 1 : this last condition thus defines the laser threshold ; for 2C 1 , the only solution of the laser equations is the trivial one x = p = 0 , D = 1 , which is stable . |
| 27 | In the words of Pollock B in Hazelton ( 1874 ) LR 2 CCR 134 , which were approved by the Court of Appeal in Gilmartin [ 1983 ] QB 953 , the accused represents that " the existing state of facts is such that in the ordinary course the cheque will be met " . |
| 28 | " The drawer impliedly represents that the state of facts existing at the date of delivery of the cheque is such that in the ordinary course the cheque will on presentation for payment on or after the date specified in the cheque be met " ( per Robert Goff LJ in Gilmartin , approved in Hamilton ) . |
| 29 | Of capuchin monkeys in Amazonia , brown capuchins with heavy jaws can open palm fruits and can survive the dry season on them , though the whitefronted capuchins can not , such that in the dry season , 90% of their food is figs . |
| 30 | But Olson nevertheless slides from these precise comments into grander generalisation and appears to attribute the characteristics associated with specific exponents of the essay technique to writing as such and to the whole culture . |