Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger has been a real one , but it has flowed entirely from distorted views about what the differences are , not from acceptance of difference as such . |
| 2 | In its report , the House of Representatives natural resources committee identified former military ranges , hazardous chemical dumps and mines for which the government is potentially liable . |
| 3 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 4 | This view puts the dynamic of police racism in the norms and values through which the police define their roles and legitimate their activities . |
| 5 | However , by section 10 of the Employment Act 1988 the immunity is withdrawn where the reason or one of the reasons for which the act is done is the fact or belief that the employer is employing non-union labour . |
| 6 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 7 | These are objects for which the compact object is normally thought to be a neutron star ; the most popular model for the QPOs involves interaction between an accretion flow and the magnetosphere of the neutron star . |
| 8 | The objects for which the company was formed . |
| 9 | Indeed , this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes : how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity ? |
| 10 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
| 11 | Birds also have a complex system of air sacs through which the air passes before entering the lungs proper . |
| 12 | The occupational therapist plans suitable activities through which the carer can help the patient to overcome these perceptual problems . |
| 13 | But outside the Nazi Movement , the objective function of the ‘ Führer myth ’ was rather to integrate into the Third Reich , through association with the far more popular and attractive aspects of Nazi rule symbolized by Hitler , the mass of ‘ ordinary ’ and ‘ non-organized ’ Germans for whom the ‘ Jewish Question ’ retained only a relatively low level of importance . |
| 14 | Of course it would be absurd to blame contemporary Germans for what the Nazis did ; but , because this judgment lies at the end of a different and independent mode of argument , it is not absurd to suppose that contemporary Germans have special responsibilities because the Nazis were Germans too . |
| 15 | This created a tendency for the administrator to facilitate the flow of benefits which the state frequently confers upon private enterprise to private businessmen for a return , and , indeed , involve himself in a variety of legal and illegal activities for which the post of senior government servant is advantageous . |
| 16 | As to the former , the objects clause in the company 's memorandum of association sets out the activities for which the company has been formed , though these activities may subsequently be altered by special resolution . |
| 17 | It is entitled to see ( and debate , if necessary ) the annual accounts and report of each industry but it can only question the minister on those aspects of the industry 's activities for which the minister is responsible . |
| 18 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 19 | Lakoff had labelled as ‘ illegitimate ’ those tags — allegedly very common in women 's speech — that call for confirmation of facts or opinions for which the speaker is the only real authority . |
| 20 | In this and the previous chapter we have discussed a number of groups of computer instructions , oriented to the principal data-types and operations for which the computer is designed . |
| 21 | First we consider the different kinds of taxes through which the government can raise revenue . |
| 22 | Extraordinary subsidies : these are grants towards particular projects for which the bishop asks for help . |
| 23 | Among the many projects for which the firm was responsible during Fox 's later years were the Liverpool Overhead Railway ( the first electric elevated city railway in the world ) , the extension from Rugby to London of the Great Central Railway , including its Marylebone terminal , the Great Northern and City tube ( with large tunnels to accommodate standard rolling stock ) , and the ‘ Hampstead tube ’ linking Charing Cross with Golders Green and Highgate ; and , abroad , much of the Cape Government Railways in South Africa , the whole Rhodesia Railways system , including the 500-feet span Victoria Falls arch bridge over the Zambesi river , the Benguela Railway in Angola , and several railways and other works in South America . |
| 24 | In cases for which the system has spherical symmetry , such as space–time around a spherical star or planet , it may often be better to use polar coordinates ; then where . |
| 25 | ( Affine connections or affinities are more general terms used to encompass cases for which the space is not necessarily Riemannian ) . |
| 26 | It is even harder to generalise with any accuracy about the legal forms through which the occupation of houses was arranged … |
| 27 | ‘ Megavitamins ’ , that is doses of vitamins many times larger than that recommended to prevent diseases arising from deficiency , have been found to affect the biochemical reactions for which the vitamins are needed . |
| 28 | Only English-educated politicians participated in the legislative institutions through which the British devolved political power in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 29 | It is hard to estimate the effect of Parliament on the other sectors of British government , though its role is best understood by regarding it not primarily as a check on the executive but as one of the institutions through which the government operates . |
| 30 | The Commission itself has been examining the feasibility of creating an official forum within the Community 's institutions through which the European regional economies can express opinions and make recommendations . |