Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 2 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 3 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 4 | Details of decorative paintwork were visible on his left side although only the lower portion of the work could be seen clearly . |
| 5 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 6 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |
| 7 | To give an example : a leak in the roof of one 's garden shed would probably be seen as less in need of urgent action than exactly the same defect in the roof of one 's home or car . |
| 8 | The first limb ( 1 ) above , applies regardless of intention although possibly the second limb ( 2 ) above , requires some element of intention . |
| 9 | They will make fewer awkward demands than either the Catalans or the Basques . |
| 10 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 11 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 12 | While it had received some decent Mk 2 air-conditioned stock , the maximum speed of its fleet of diesel locomotives was 90/95mph ; average city-to-city speeds compared unfavourably with other parts of the InterCity network , and initially BR replied to local pleas that HSTs could not provide the answer , implying stagnation until perhaps the route was electrified and received APTs that could take the curvatures in their stride . |
| 13 | A purchaser is only likely to avoid liability for dismissals before completion if either the dismissal was for a reason unconnected with the sale ( eg gross misconduct ) or the dismissal was sufficiently far in advance of completion that it was not connected with the sale . |
| 14 | When parks are ploughed , there is a tendency for farmers to plough closer and closer to the trunk until eventually the tractor disturbs the roots and the tree suffers , or even dies . |
| 15 | It 's a shame that the word ‘ refined ’ has acquired prissy connotations because both the shop and the stock of London 's newest lingerie outlet is refined in the best possible sense of the word . |
| 16 | However , and it also has a down- side because now the contractors will be able to see the information which used to be confidential that local authorities will be putting on the table , but the point is it 's a chink , it 's a way forward we need to build on this . |
| 17 | ‘ It had quite an effect because only the other day a London record store asked if it was going to be released again . ’ |
| 18 | Tennyson in Morte d'Arthur again creates similar types of emotion because again the poem was prompted by the death of his best friend Arthur Hallam . |
| 19 | It is virtually an obvious consequence of the accounting formulation used with investment as both the numerator of investment intensity and denominator of ROI , while profit in the numerator of ROI is possibly a fairly stable proportion of sales in the denominator of investment intensity . |
| 20 | Although the primary importance of state benefits in financing old age may decline in the future as both the opportunities and the incentives increase for today 's working population to accumulate private assets for retirement , there can be little doubt that over the last eighty years state pensions have been instrumental in sustaining a considerable degree of economic independence among the retired population . |
| 21 | Gaining parental attention and praise is a vital part of the programme as often the parents ' lack of interest is the reason for the problem having continued . |
| 22 | His song continued , echoing through the monastery as once the chanting of the monks must have done . |
| 23 | He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep . |
| 24 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 25 | At the same time he pressed the labour theory of value to far more radical ends than David Ricardo [ q.v. ] , seeing skilled labour as both the measure and producer of all value . |
| 26 | GM , in common with other Western car manufacturers , perversely views the Japanese automotive industry as both the great collaborator and the great threat in equal measure . |
| 27 | In Spain , a competitive framework that formally favoured rail was systematically infringed in practice as even the pro-deregulation 1962 World Bank report conceded ( IBRD 1963 : 173 ; El País , 18 September 1983 , 10 October 1983 ) . |
| 28 | A gasp of delight escaped her lips as instantly the gardens assumed a new and spellbinding dimension : thousands of light bulbs springing to life , outlining domes and minarets , and other graceful exotic images of the architects ' imagination . |
| 29 | Reports of the EC initiative suggested that Dumas as well the German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , had agreed to go to Iraq before the expiry of the Jan. 15 UN deadline . |
| 30 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |