Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 2 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 3 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 4 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 5 | Because the interest is added to the loan from the outset , you will pay off more interest in the early months than in the later ones . |
| 6 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , he did much better as a collector of pictures from earlier centuries than of the works of his own contemporaries or friends . |
| 8 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 9 | I was keener on the pictures than on the prose and therefore skipped most of the moral rearmament propaganda : ‘ hobbies ’ , like ‘ pocket money ’ , were things that other kids had , so I was never tempted to make a jet-propelled car with a Sparklets bulb ( whatever that was ) . |
| 10 | About 130 ad Papias of Hierapolis in Asia Minor recorded traditions about the authorship of the gospels of Matthew and Mark , but also knew a story about Jesus found in the non-canonical ‘ Gospel according to the Hebrews ’ and was quite convinced that the mind of Jesus was captured less from written books than from the oral teaching of those seniors who had known apostles personally . |
| 11 | It was hotly argued that the cameras zoomed in more often on his Gucci loafers and Hermes ties than on the buildings . |
| 12 | As there was much greater divergence in growth levels between conurbations and rural sub-regions than between the 11 constituent regions of the UK , the statistical performance of the regions is better understood and predicted by reference to their respective mixtures of conurbation and rural sub-regions than to their industrial structure . |
| 13 | The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services . |
| 14 | Although the inversion rate was low for both age groups , it was significantly lower for the eight-year-olds than for the five-year-olds . |
| 15 | They were to discover , however , that a barely literate populace found the abstract word far more difficult to absorb than more concrete visual images , for as one Henrician reformer had earlier noted : ‘ into the common people things sooner enter by the eyes than by the ears . ’ |
| 16 | Moreover the smaller scale of the local political system allows minor parties and independents more opportunities than on the national stage ( Gyford et al . |
| 17 | It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum . |
| 18 | The most obvious reason why there is a greater concern with visual images than with the printed word may be thought to be the emergence of the new media — film , television and even the computer . |
| 19 | However , the significance of all this is unclear : in the southeastern part of the province there appears to be a greater inter-relationship of designs than in the west . |
| 20 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 21 | This bursting activity was massively — up to fourfold — higher in the methylanthranilate-trained animals than in the controls which had pecked the water bead . |
| 22 | Wales , Yorkshire and Humberside , and East Midlands always fare worse on the morbidity indicators than on the SMRs ; and West Midlands and the South-West always appear even more advantaged on these morbidity indicators . |
| 23 | Now we are able to employ 16,000 more doctors and dentists than in the late '70s , and no less than 60,000 more nurses . |
| 24 | It applies no more nor less to the most personal and transitory goals than to the most general and long-term . |
| 25 | You get better speeches than in the Commons , ’ he insists . |
| 26 | The unit of resource ( the yearly cost per full time student ) has always been lower in the polytechnics than in the universities and recent downward pressure has widened the gap from £1,425 in 1982 to £2,315 in 1986/87 . |
| 27 | There are fewer districts than under the previous system . |
| 28 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 29 | Edwards writes : " Various writers , ( e.g. Crump 1979 ) refer to teacher reports that the speech of young black children closely resembles that of their white peers until about the ages of 14 or 15 " . |
| 30 | Crawford ensured that no one under fourteen would be allowed into the performances because of the strong language and much hopping in and out of bed — and he banned his grandmother . |