Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in the former situation the stimulus is received and the response initiated by the same hemisphere ( direct or uncrossed reaction ) . |
| 2 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the many important proposition for future policy and action by CCW contained in this paper . |
| 3 | Use the scatter dice to determine the direction moved in the same way as for Goblin Fanatics . |
| 4 | Use the Scatter dice to establish the direction moved in the same way as for Goblin Fanatics . |
| 5 | Company commitment and the willingness to remain with the same firm for long periods may therefore be underpinned by the prospect of heavy sacrifices that accompany the alternatives . |
| 6 | Five of the successor states in the former Soviet Union are wracked by bitter ethnic civil war and rebellion . |
| 7 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 8 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 9 | He considered the advantage to lie with the former . |
| 10 | The ability to play chords on the horn , provided the notes derive from the same harmonic series , has long been known . |
| 11 | The first group of paintings in which this new development is clearly visible are the canvases executed during the few weeks spent at La Rue-des-Bois in the autumn and in Paris during the succeeding months . |
| 12 | When the right of control and transfer is conveyed , the holder relies on the same method of notification by which he was made a holder , except that he will be the initiator of the message to the carrier , and will need to await the carrier 's confirmation before the transfer process can be set in motion . |
| 13 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 14 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 15 | You may also start trembling , and feel a pricking of the skin caused by the same vascular changes that caused the blushing ; the involuntary tremor is caused by an increase in activity in one of the central nervous system circuits that controls level of background muscular tension . |
| 16 | Alyssia ignored his remark and concentrated on trying to cut her steak without sending all the vegetables flying at the same time . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 18 | Any such conflicting treaty would be absolutely and automatically void , and the signatory States to the former treaty could invoke that invalidity at any time . |
| 19 | Even though the local advantages for power and raw materials have gone , the industry remains in the same place . |
| 20 | The industry remained in the same place even though the conditions had changed . |
| 21 | If the defendant in a default action does submit a defence in the prescribed time , the district judge fixes a date for the preliminary hearing , and the action proceeds in the same way as a fixed date action . |
| 22 | If the lads continue in the same vein , then we can climb out of trouble . |
| 23 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |
| 24 | Brackenbury will fill the gap left by the former advertising and sales promotion manager Roger Craythorne , who took early retirement last month ( MW November 15 ) as part of a sweeping programme of marketing changes . |
| 25 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 26 | ‘ In applying national law , whether the provisions in question were adopted before or after the directive , the national court called upon to interpret it is required to do so , as far as possible , in the light of the wording and the purpose of the directive in order to achieve the result pursued by the latter and thereby comply with the third paragraph of Article 189 of the Treaty . ’ |
| 27 | The programme continues at the same venue throughout the week with the curtain up each evening at 8pm and 7.30pm on Saturday . |
| 28 | There are always conflicts between the demands imposed by the several disciplines . |
| 29 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 30 | Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State . |