Example sentences of "[conj] [det] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So therefore they argued , my children will only get half the mutation , or half the effects of it , fifty percent increase in reproductive success . |
| 2 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 3 | In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh . |
| 4 | People buy goods and then find , for one reason or another the goods are faulty , or they 're unsatisfactory in some way and the customer then tries to get some kind of compensation . |
| 5 | In summary , to compare t treatments , we require a number of blocks each consisting of t experimental units ; for one reason or another the units within each block are expected to behave reasonably similarly in the absence of any treatment , e.g. t mice from the same litter , t plots in the same area of a field . |
| 6 | The situation was considerably better among Baptists where half the ministers had received some form of higher education . |
| 7 | But the jamboree could well turn into one of those parties where half the guests fail to turn up , and everyone else tries terribly hard to pretend that they are having a marvellous time . |
| 8 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |
| 9 | Frankie stared along tree-lined Ashgrove , where all the Americans stayed in specially converted houses with wind-up gramophones in every room . |
| 10 | For example , in schools where all the teachers followed guidelines in the same way , the impact was positive . |
| 11 | In general , it can be shown that for a large sample of size , n , and where all the elements of the matrices and are unrestricted , the statistic : is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , once again , g is the number of restrictions on the model . |
| 12 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 13 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 14 | In the minority of homes ( a quarter ) where all the residents had the same doctor , visiting rates were higher ( 16.8 a year on average ) than in the majority ( three-quarters ) where the residents could have different doctors ( 9.5 ) . |
| 15 | Student halls of residence and hostels will be exempt , as will be houses and flats where all the residents are students . |
| 16 | Too fast , too young , too much of a good thing in a hurry , their earlier days before and around ‘ Immigrants , Emigrants And Me ’ had the band rip-roaring through some off-kilter funfair where all the rides were free and curfews and the like did not exist . |
| 17 | I left him with appreciation and went forward into the central dining car where all the actors were sitting in front of coffee cups and poring over typed sheets of stage directions , muttering under their breaths and sometimes exclaiming aloud . |
| 18 | This was also the case for three other enzymes , epoxide hydrolase , glutathione S-transferase α , and glutathione S-transferase π , where all the tumours showed positive immunoreactivity . |
| 19 | Overall , the attitudes of children in the action schools where all the interventions took place became noticeably more liberal , especially on sex role and occupational stereotypes and the ‘ masculinity ’ of science . |
| 20 | I spent the evening in one of those awful cellar bars where all the women were blonde and laughing , and the men wore that uniform . |
| 21 | But I had my book , and I knew roughly where all the bits were . |
| 22 | A It is an 11-nation club where all the members agree to keep the value of their currencies within fixed bands . |
| 23 | We have been working towards establishing a group where all the members have an equal say . |
| 24 | Where all the claimants are before the court under section 8 , then the relief granted is to be ‘ such as to avoid double liability of the wrongdoer , ’ which presumably means that the court is to apportion the damages representing the value of the chattel according to the respective interests of the claimants . |
| 25 | This was confined to areas where more than half the non-white population lived , and where all the areas had more than 10 per cent . |
| 26 | This is valid for a gas , where all the particles are considered to be independent scattering centres and the addition of more centres , which increases n∼ increases the scattering . |
| 27 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 28 | You can take a dialogue where all the sentences are complete and make all the deletions you can , still making it natural . |
| 29 | You can also take a conversation where all the sentences are complete and go through and make all the deletions which make it natural . |
| 30 | I can plan a new kitchen easily , i.e. where all the cupboards and appliances would fit |