Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeal feminists justified their entry into the political arena on the grounds that the issues raised by the acts touched on all the great trusts of their womanhood — the questions of virtue , purity , decency and social welfare . |
| 2 | The nature of the impairment of the system might be different for every patient , so each patient is unique ; yet all the impairments shown by all the patients are interpreted with reference to a single theory of the language processing system . |
| 3 | You then go an make a cup of tea whilst the computer reads through all the files until it comes to the one you want . |
| 4 | Does the computer come with all the disks for the pre-loaded software ? |
| 5 | It is not the function of the listener to provide absolution , forgiveness or even " understanding " but merely to encourage the sufferer to admit to all the deeds that poison his or her memory and continuing poor self-image . |
| 6 | Martina contented herself with a pot of tea , and held her cup with both hands , as girls are bound to do , the fingers spread for all the warmth . |
| 7 | Coun Fishwick said she was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm shown by all the children who entered , and the two chosen were a credit to Darlington . |
| 8 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 9 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 10 | The creature was sketched and the drawing witnessed by all the crew before it was decapitated . |
| 11 | The research focuses on both the organisation of individual estates and life in the planting community . |
| 12 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 13 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 14 | To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property . |
| 15 | The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community . |
| 16 | There were also many incidents in which the crowd distinguished between dealers and farmers selling their own produce directly : " At Nottingham fair the mob seized upon all the cheese the factors had purchased , and distributed the same among them , leaving the farmers ' cheese unmolested . " |
| 17 | You speak to me like the stepbrother speaks to all the family . |
| 18 | Moreover , as I indicated earlier in my judgment , there were reasons why the justices might be particularly cautious in considering the proposal agreed between all the parties that there should now be the fundamental reversal of the future of these children , so soon after the making of the care order in 1991 . |
| 19 | The Purchaser will not be happy if the Business consists of all the wrong kinds of assets ( peas instead of beans ) even if they are worth the same as the price paid . |
| 20 | The conclusion given in both the Johansson studies was simply that the probability of a driver actually detecting a road sign is extremely low , but that some signs are more likely to be detected than others . |
| 21 | It was pointed out earlier that one difficulty in using inverted files is the need to deal with all the records possessing a given attribute at the same time , so that a great deal of working space is required in main storage . |
| 22 | That was until the grid got into proper operation and the then they got nationalized then they they transferred back onto A C. It was to bring it into line to s to keep the town supplied through all the er cables that were were being constructed for D C. They had to bring the A C back to D C. That was converters . |
| 23 | With this ‘ chemically correct ’ mixture , all the hydrogen and carbon in the fuel combine with all the oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide and water . |
| 24 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 25 | In other words Jansons encourages the listener to join in all the fun without ever spoiling it by camping things up along the way . |
| 26 | The cardinals joined in all the rapidly growing administrative and judicial functions of the papal court . |
| 27 | Whether this should be taken into account or not in calculating the value of total output depends on whether we require a measurement of the domestic output of the United Kingdom or a measurement of the output produced by all the factors of production owned by United Kingdom residents . |
| 28 | Above me the reddish escarpment and the red stone of the terraces contrasts with all the fresh greens sketched in long lines . |
| 29 | There are hardly enough hours in the day to cram in all the lesson preparation , background reading , meetings and classroom work necessary to be an effective teacher . |
| 30 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |