Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It must be admitted , however , that although there is no doubt in our own minds that preparations of the US Army in Japan are purely precautionary and defensive , seen from the Russian viewpoint , many of the activities of the Americans here may appear extremely aggressive .
2 The activities of the societies also ensure that there is something for every branch of the membership .
3 The response of the defendants then had to be looked at .
4 The units make the forms of the diagrams effectively independent of B , and since C is assumed to be about 4B they can be used to include variations in C. Tanabe-Sugano diagrams can be used to assign spectra empirically ; they lead to the identification of allowed transitions , and very often the fit of the observed transition energies gives values of Δ/B; that are unambiguous .
5 But from my experience , the majority of the nasties now enjoy headbutting people all around them ( in time to the music , admittedly ) or forming extremely violent moshing grounds , sometimes to the most unlikely music .
6 The majority of the workers there work only two or three hours a day …
7 Those who can " add value " by producing plywood receive up to 35 per cent , but the majority of the profits still goes to foreign companies .
8 The responses of the pilgrims to the Miller 's Tale , we are told , were various : but the majority of the pilgrims simply laugh ( 3858 ) .
9 Finally it must be remembered that , at this stage , the majority of the Cossacks still had no inkling of the preparations that were being made by the British to hand them back .
10 This fact is not found in the Acts of the Apostles even though it would be a logical conclusion to the book .
11 The remainder of the followers now spread out around the clear area — a makeshift poteau mitan — touching their candle flames to one of the pyres and then laying their candles on the ground at the edge of the clear ground .
12 fortunately we are now able to see the complexity of the processes more clearly through the painstaking researches of Soviet scholars .
13 If the authorities do not respond to the opinions of the players then they are on dangerous ground and their motives might be questioned .
14 You simply screw the strips to the walls just under the ceiling and just above the skirting or baseboards to make a kind of frame , and use the special tool provided to push the fabric into the frame and secure it in position .
15 Sea swell thudded at the base of the cliffs far below , and above the wind symphony the weird crying of a seal echoed up from some hidden sea cavern .
16 the work will be still continued on that , but also in terms of Bungay itself , we 're looking at whether county management can look at this and sort of if you like identify it , so we have n't abandoned Bungay , far from it , we 're still concerned with the , we 've got the , the base of the facts still go on er and , and we 're gon na continue on Monday .
17 We show that the variety of the types together with the noise prevents a large jump in agents ' strategies from complete ignorance to complete knowledge .
18 The reader should be able to confirm the direction of the shifts either graphically or by reasoned argument .
19 The provision of the services already described is important , but this must take place in a society that fully accepts the implications of disability , otherwise the disabled feel they are rejected and discriminated against .
20 The expertise of the officials also gives their decisions and judgements a legitimacy which , though different from the legitimacy conferred on politicians by their methods of recruitment into politics ( notably election ) , is nevertheless important in the resolution of conflicts ( Peters 1978 ) .
21 One would be hard put also to find grounds for the attribution of the beliefs thus expressible to creatures that might be thought to have but not express them :
22 The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them .
23 The existence of the railways also opened up the Continent , and Hamburg and Rotterdam served as terminal stations on a network of lines running to Austria , Hungary , and Poland , along which livestock was carried for export .
24 The ‘ ideal ’ label refers to the existence of the types only as ideas or mental constructs , not to their desirability .
25 French cooperation in the EEC in the years immediately after 1958 could perhaps best be described as the lull before the storm .
26 The heroism of the Glosters over 2 centuries had already won the regiment more than 30 battle honours by the time the First World War broke out .
27 The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit .
28 This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide .
29 ELTON John and his partner Bernie Taupin joined the ranks of the greats today after an American company paid them the biggest advance in music history .
30 Does my right hon. Friend further agree that the founders of the health service would be horrified at the resistance to the reforms so ably carried out by the Government for the benefit of patients throughout the country ?
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