Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Alongside all this , gaining momentum in the second half of the century , was a new taxonomic and labelling zeal which attempted to classify ‘ scientifically ’ the characteristics and increasingly the aetiologies of the forms of sexual variety , and in so doing helped construct them as objects of study and as sexual categories .
2 Fortunately , their gibes have fallen on deaf ears and all the more credit is due to those gentlemen who , in face of considerable discouragement , have succeeded to such a marked extent . ’
3 However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season .
4 The latter process does not seem to have been very effective in the submarine fans and therefore the porosities are generally lower than those observed in the grainstones of the Hauptdolomit .
5 But the cell must already have an internal system which can respond to such signals and again the signal is being selective .
6 Electronic systems are very often concerned with processing weak signals and sometimes the nonlinearity involved is sufficiently slight for quite large signals to qualify as small enough for the purpose of linear analysis .
7 Science aprons and then the shorts for athletics and the swimming costume .
8 ‘ They were a hazard to the Galapagos turtles , they were attacking the sand cranes and also the brown pelicans we brought in from the wild because they were injured , ’ said John Dreyer , for Disney World .
9 When Iraqi Kurdish civilians were among those killed during the operations there were protests from the Iraqi government , the two Iraqi Kurdish organizations and also the German government .
10 In the matter of organization there is also direct overlap with economic analysis , and this is becoming especially important in work on modern capitalist cultural organizations and especially the ‘ media ’ .
11 An approach to organizational politics which focuses on patterns of dominance goes beyond the by now familiar references in organization theory and public administration to the ‘ environment ’ of organizations and especially the political system , an example of which is found in Wamsley and Zald ( 1976 ) .
12 To put members ‘ in the picture ’ about just what goes on at Potters Bar the tour extended to the membership department , the various offices and even the accounts department .
13 The purpose of the sacrifice is to ensure the fertility and well-being of the individual , his family and domestic animals and ultimately the whole community .
14 He saw two eyes and then the cloak was thrown away from the face and he could see that it was her , blue-lipped with cold , reaching for him .
15 I closed my eyes and suddenly the jakes door was thrust back and a veritable mountain of a man stood there .
16 Risley Employee communications clerk Pat Hunt , who helped organise BNFL 's response to the appeal , said she wanted to thank all employees who generously donated spectacles and also the site collectors for their help .
17 Produced by enthusiasts , they contain the latest gossip and news of upcoming parties , as well as interviews , reports , contact addresses and probably the most interesting thing , the charts .
18 Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another .
19 Paradoxically , the more severe the reflux the higher are the papillae and hence the more likely are the stem cells to be damaged .
20 So hard copy reports are produced out of the ledgers and then the results are taken and keyed into FDC .
21 She 's cut taxes , she 's made concessions and somehow the British people simply have n't picked up the ball and run with it .
22 Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ?
23 Haunted by the spectre of Northern Soul , wrapped in perfect pop melodies and probably the best record this year .
24 Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and
25 The practical significance of this distinction is that in the first group of cases there is a greater likelihood of the necessary information being passed rapidly to the defendant , and that will in turn meet the objective of the Convention 's authors and also the standards set by ‘ due process ’ tests .
26 And once the crossroads were taken , then no British troops could reach the Prussians and thus the armies would be irrevocably split and the Emperor would have won his campaign .
27 Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers .
28 A knowledge of bond enthalpies can help us to understand the structure of covalent compounds and also the mechanisms ( see chapter 9 ) of their chemical reactions .
29 The Moot is close enough to the mountains to suffer occasional raids by Night Goblins and so the Halflings maintain a vigilant force of border guards and watchmen who double as warriors in time of war .
30 The opportunities and indeed the pressures for people to fiddle vary widely and Mars suggests a number of ‘ fiddle-prone ’ factors attached to particular occupations .
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