Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 2 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 3 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
| 4 | Article 10(1) of the European Convention sets out the basic principle which the makers of common and statute law in Britain have never quite mustered the courage to adopt : " Everyone has the right to freedom of expression . |
| 5 | In fact I have just received a copy of ‘ Transport in the 1990s ’ , which is an information pamphlet from the European Commission setting out the European Community 's strategy for transport . |
| 6 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 7 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 8 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
| 9 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
| 10 | Earlier this year it was announced that the block contained an oilfield with recoverable reserves of 250 million to 500 million barrels of oil , putting it in the so-called ‘ elephant field ’ category and the largest oil find off the British coast for five years . |
| 11 | They have n't shown the political will to sort out the problem — there has been an element of divide and rule . |
| 12 | After a juddering landing the cranky plane eases up the runway towards a chalky line reading ‘ stop ’ . |
| 13 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 14 | The trick , suggests Fine , is to let the left brain do the analysing and the right brain carry out the swing . |
| 15 | Ordinary kids might go robbing or beating up old ladies , something like that ; I used to come down here 'cause I knew that was n't the right way to let out the aggression . |
| 16 | The right way to wire up the nation |
| 17 | They were designed to operate closely with local government and the private sector to bring about the economic development of the inner areas . |
| 18 | In its Report , presented in 1977 to Parliament , the working party set up by the Labour Government to develop further the idea of a Co-operative Development Agency , and broadly representative of the whole of the Co-operative Movement , declared of the three attempted rescues : |
| 19 | The central theme of the dispute was that the Labour Party had neither the following nor the enthusiasm to oppose the National Government in isolation . |
| 20 | In a masterly television interview on Sunday , John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , exuded competence and an almost Gladstonian fiscal probity , but there was a ring of the Sixties about the accompanying discussion between MPs and experts which left the impression that , in squaring circles , the Labour Party remains endemically the party of inflation . |
| 21 | Will the Labour party shut down the new gas-fired generating stations , break those contracts and lay off the men ? |
| 22 | Too many people in the Labour party kick away the ladder by which they rose through the education system and seek to defend poor performance where there is no economic advantage . |
| 23 | Yet , at the same time , it said that if there were a coalition Government , it would stop the Labour party putting up the higher rate of tax . |
| 24 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 25 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 27 | It was so well known now , yet it still thrilled her as she saw the way the dim light picked out the shadows of his cheekbones , the sharp angle of his jaw . |
| 28 | Er , and then the further closure depending where the line is drawn , the further potential closure of an additional home , which is the one that er , Mr made reference to . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , what remains especially striking and distinctive is the English reluctance to take back the elderly within the home as dependents . |
| 30 | It is time at least for the English language to take on the concept of child-friendliness . |