Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Le Voyeur ( 1955 ) , the intense preoccupation with specific objects which the travelling watch salesman displays — the figure-of-eight patterns , the girl 's neck , the rope , the cinema poster — is contrived to function as an index of his guilt : Mathias is incriminated by the narrative , although his guilt is never proved conclusively . |
| 2 | Other Labour proposals which the RICS disagrees with include an end to the submitting of duplicate planning applications and a review of development plans every two years . |
| 3 | This was no peasant revolution , but an insurrection led by the intelligentsia of the new middle classes ( those professional groups whom the Enlightenment aristocrats despised as base and usurers ) . |
| 4 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 5 | As we write , battles include a handsome Victorian set of stables in Enfield , Hertfordshire — a home for retired ponies which the local council wants to close ; Brocklesby railway station — a delightful example of a country station built for the local landlord but empty and decaying ; the grade II* listed Belgrave Chapel in Darwen , Lancashire , with its Gothic pinnacles dominating the town but under threat of demolition ; and the beautiful but overgrown park and gardens of Uffington in Lincolnshire , in danger of being smothered by executive homes , a golf club and a hotel . |
| 6 | In these films the sort of sticky emotional conflicts which the production system seemed determined to cleanse from its films fight their way back into the movies . |
| 7 | But , a common objection goes , the thesis can not justify pre-empting reasons which the authority was meant to reflect correctly and failed to reflect . |
| 8 | Different patterns of public expenditure reflect the state 's role in the restructuring of private capital at a time of economic recession , and in the political crises which the recession and new directions of state intervention bring about . |
| 9 | Children combed the shoreline for strong shells which the women would sharpen and affix to spears twice the height of a man . |
| 10 | Under the title ‘ How we will revive the lost arts of the tabloids ’ , Pilger laid down the criteria : ‘ dramatic , uncropped pictures which the old Express displayed with such flair ; original well-written investigations which the Sunday Times ’ Insight Team pioneered ( I count the old Sunday Times as a great popular paper ) ; and the use of writer-photographer teams which Picture Post and the Mirror used with such power . ’ |
| 11 | By the end of the nineteenth century there was an almost perfect fit between the moral indoctrination pursued by the school and what was perhaps the most obvious way in which an individual boy might try to resolve the conflicting demands which the experience of school made on him . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Grundig , one of the European manufacturers which the EEC was trying to protect with its import restrictions , has pulled the rug from under the EEC 's carefully conceived plans . |
| 13 | Indeed , he states quite unequivocally , ‘ in such dwellings every labourer ought to live , and any nobleman might live ’ In the following decade , Pugin also enquires why the middle-class dwelling should be regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , for ‘ the smaller detached houses which the present state of society has generated , should possess a peculiar character : they are only objectionable when made to appear diminutive representations of larger structures ’ . |
| 14 | This practice of stitching together the two kinds of reduction into a single statement , which combines sweeping generalization with particularistic reference , is central to the discursive strategies which the Burnage Report criticized as ‘ moral , symbolic and doctrinaire ’ antiracism . |
| 15 | The only other significant variation among different groups which the cross-tabulations not included in the Appendix showed up was that people without bank accounts were more likely than people with them to say that credit cards would be difficult to arrange . |
| 16 | This return to the pre-nineteenth-century use of anti-realist techniques is accompanied by a recognition of the wealth of discursive forms which the more narrowly conceived realist novel has left untapped . |
| 17 | We therefore come back to different meanings which the term ‘ community ’ expresses to different people . |
| 18 | As an economist , Pareto was well aware of the further dimension to social phenomena which the concept of interest introduces , and he acknowledges its significance without , however , dealing with it in great detail in his sociological work . |
| 19 | Others are bad experiences which can not be absorbed in memory but are ‘ retained as foreign objects which the psyche seeks to project ’ ( Guntrip , 1968 ) . |
| 20 | Information is one of the few products which the West can sell to the Far East . |
| 21 | planning for you but what I can show you is some sketches which the gentleman who bought the plot at Grey Lane brought to show me asked my opinion . |
| 22 | Mr. Perry also referred to the legislation which governs council houses in Scotland but it is impossible to imply in the Act of 1985 express words which the legislature chose to insert in the Rent Acts and in the Scottish Act ( Housing ( Scotland ) Act 1987 ) but chose not to insert in the Act of 1985 . |
| 23 | Even so , there are some risks which the average horse owner should not be prepared to take . |
| 24 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 25 | Among the various characteristics of these technologies which Blauner identifies we highlight three here : the changing skill requirements , the worker 's sense of control over the work process , and changes in the meaningfulness of work — these last two characteristics being , to a very large extent , a product of the social relationships which the worker has with management and the end-user of the product being made . |
| 26 | Though geographical mobility is possible , to move means severing all the social ties which the miner has built up . |
| 27 | These soft facts include the sorts of things that the people in the problem area are worried about , the social roles which the people within the situation think are important , and the sort of behaviour which is expected of people in these roles . |
| 28 | Even if there are sexual elements which the client does not see as significant , the naturalness with which such a Worker approaches the matter will probably be reflected in his answer . |
| 29 | Such an unimaginative word blurs the historical resonances which the mere name of Stirling surely evokes ; while the ancient royal burgh of Forfar , whose castle was a residence of several early Scottish kings , is quite an appreciable distance from the side of the Tay . |
| 30 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |