Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |
| 3 | For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order . |
| 4 | The switches I find the most awkward to deal with are the mains rotary on/off switches that are supplied by several of the main electronic component retailers . |
| 5 | Of all the Bletchley eccentrics I suppose the most celebrated now must be Alan Turing , largely because he has been the subject of Hugh Whitemore 's very successful play Breaking the Code . |
| 6 | After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him . |
| 7 | A lot of times I play the guy who knows what to do , and that 's not really me . |
| 8 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 9 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 10 | If he likes to use large dragons I think the choice of counter-measure if obvious . |
| 11 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 12 | Heads says you have the kids , tails I have the combining . |
| 13 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 14 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 15 | Some writers have attempted to draw up some general guidelines which relate the weeding of research material to the concept of obsolescence — the diminution in the use of literature over the course of time . |
| 16 | With each of the sets of criteria will come guidelines which amplify the criteria and which indicate the evidence which Quality Auditors will need to see . |
| 17 | Partnership in Learning : The Teacher Placement Service and the National Curriculum , sponsored by Lloyds Bank , comprising guidelines which recognise the four key stages of the National Curriculum and address the core , foundation and cross-curricular themes . |
| 18 | Songs which integrate the techniques like ‘ Milk cow Blues Boogie ’ ( or ‘ Mystery Train' ) in the Sun period or ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ in the early Victor period , become less common . |
| 19 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 20 | Choose the songs which show the widest range of your abilities , and put the best one first . |
| 21 | But Harding makes room in his show for some songs which portray the more sensitive side of his nature . |
| 22 | All mammals have ears which follow the same basic plan as ours . |
| 23 | — Animals which chew the cud and have cloven hoofs . |
| 24 | Most remarkable of all are the animals which detect the echoes of the sounds they create . |
| 25 | To convince ourselves of the specificity of the bursting effect , Roger and I repeated the experiment using the electroshock amnesia approach I referred to above ; the bursting activity , like the biochemical and structural changes , occurs only in the animals which remember the task . |
| 26 | In a mainly subsistence economy , the site of a particular place will be largely related to the uses of the land around to maintain the crops and animals which produce the food to sustain life . |
| 27 | A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture . |
| 28 | For example , Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow . |
| 29 | If you wish to leave plain stitches between each repeat , then you must indicate this by drawing a black square , in line with the two squares which set the height , on the last row of plain stitches required . |
| 30 | It can also be made from coal but in this case the syn-gas must be carefully purified to remove sulphur compounds which poison the catalyst . |