Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common ground that Norwich and Winchester carry on ‘ investment business ’ by reason of their engagement in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act : section 1(2) . |
| 2 | Investment business is defined in paragraph 1(2) of FSA as meaning the business of engaging in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 of FSA ( ‘ Investment Business ’ ) and which are not specifically excluded by Part III of Schedule 1 ( ‘ Excluded Activities ’ ) . |
| 3 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 4 | Like the chimpanzees , the ability of bluetits to learn the complex series of manoeuvres required to release a peanut from a special trick-feeder is no more difficult than many of the activities it learns during the course of its life , seeking out insects and seeds from the most intricate of places , getting itself and its beak into just the right position to extract the desired morsel . |
| 5 | Where did you get the inspiration for the hairstyles you created for the Awards ? |
| 6 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 7 | Its data base is documents , records of conversations among the team , and interviews with the experts who participated in the programme . |
| 8 | Surridge 's ebullience and enthusiasm continued to flow , his force of personality holding together some pretty strong-willed characters in his XI , and the crowds they attracted to The oval were often huge . |
| 9 | The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution . |
| 10 | It was as if they were the only two people on earth ; oblivious to the crowds who poured from the factory entrances as the day shift ended and who milled around them , they had eyes only for each other . |
| 11 | So Heineken 's recent big-money renewal of their sponsorship of the Heineken National League has to be seen in a wider context than the clubs who belong to the league . |
| 12 | If you would like to help , please write a letter stating the following : ’ Dear Mayor Gordon , I have heard about the work of the Buklod Centre and the programmes it runs for the hospitality women , including health education , English lessons , income-generating projects and night care for children . |
| 13 | as the wishes we make to the sky . |
| 14 | Despite the accident , sponsors were impressed with the PJC-1 's performance , and the first PJC-2 was soon built , modified so that the crossed-controls which resulted in the earlier accident , could not again occur . |
| 15 | He became a vice-president of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of engineering and technology ; he became a member of the Science Museum advisory council , and took an active part in the discussions which resulted in the establishment of the Railway Museum in York ; the National Trust made him a member of its properties committee , to advise on industrial archaeology ; and he was appointed chairman of the Council for British Archaeology research committee on industrial archaeology . |
| 16 | Edwin Montagu , Secretary of State for India , had arrived in Delhi for the discussions which resulted in the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms , the first concession to Indian nationalism . |
| 17 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
| 18 | Having looked at the development and decline of settlements , let us now look at why the settlements are where they are and the patterns they make in the landscape . |
| 19 | She lay for a few moments watching the patterns it made on the ceiling . |
| 20 | You have to accept the lecturers you find in the college you attend — hardly an original thought but nevertheless an illuminating and sobering one . |
| 21 | One of the shunters who rode on the engine then alighted , went down the train to connect up the vacuum pipes known to the railwaymen as vacuum bags . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the dangers which lie within the social charter of making European industry uncompetitive in relation to Japanese industry and to others . |
| 23 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 24 | And from the cities they moved to the forest where their attitudes to the locals were as racist as Limeño attitudes were to them : to the extent that David observed , ‘ Tropical cultures are disappearing faster than the rainforests themselves . ’ |
| 25 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 26 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 27 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 28 | ‘ My God , ’ said Dyson , ‘ the lunatics you meet on the roads these days ! |
| 29 | Duty and service , not freedom or happiness , are the notes which reverberate through the history of eighteenth-century Prussia . |
| 30 | The research by the Policy Studies Institute on the Metropolitan Police outlined the typifications they had of the public , contrasting the ‘ slags ’ and ‘ ordinary people ’ ( 1983b : 180 ) . |