Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | How well public sector employees perform in providing the goods and services their customers and clients want depends on the system of incentives and sanctions within which they operate . |
2 | The amount you receive depends on the graduated NI contributions you paid during that period . |
3 | My reply was a relatively feeble but an entirely sincere one : ‘ There are some occupations and activities , ’ I said to them , ‘ where the extent of the benefits you receive depends upon the goodwill of the people you are serving . ’ |
4 | The information which receipts and payments accounts give relates to the amount of cash received and paid . |
5 | As we have explained earlier in the book , insulin response to the carbohydrate foods we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrate . |
6 | How much additional pension you get depends on the amount of your earnings over and above the lower earnings limit for each complete tax year since April 1978 . |
7 | I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for , but I find they vary quite a lot . |
8 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
9 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
10 | That many of the findings here are similar to those of our other work on adult education , we feel adds to the value of what we report from this study of applicants . |
11 | The actual amount you pay depends on the type of account you have . |
12 | Are we all prepared to accept these price increases for the sometimes dubious advantage of seeing our environment improved ? |
13 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
14 | Divide the lines between you in any way which you think adds to the drama and suspense . |
15 | And I 've put around today a short paper which has a a graph attached to it which I think adds to the explanation when I draw your attention to . |
16 | Now , if and are presented on the same plot , their separation is the required as illustrated in figure 10.16(a) and where they cross corresponds to the crucial condition . |
17 | What you do depends on the type of weeds concerned , the time of the year , the weather and where they grow . |
18 | Um I 'm not quite sure wheth whether you 'd call it bullying , whether you 'd call it child sex abuse , whether you 'd whatever you call it I think depends on the ages of the participants and depends on on the perspective of the person who 's describing it as well |
19 | I think depends upon the , the problem . |
20 | Yet , at the same time , practical programmes that ignore justice in retributive terms are not only likely to prove unacceptable , but are also likely to be self-defeating : the sense of injustice that they generate militates against the effectiveness of their programmes . |
21 | ‘ There are n't many bicycle frames in the Jungle . |
22 | The form that they take depends upon the species of waterlily from which the variety has been derived . |
23 | I 'm aware that Britain saw many style advances in the Eighties , thanks to the high street revolution at places like Next , Principles , Richards and Marks & Spencer . |
24 | The processor contains circuitry to request the next instruction from the store , and to receive , decode , and execute it ; the latter may require further read or write accesses to the store , or interaction with a transput unit . |
25 | A Manchester to Marylebone express departs for the south and approaches Thurland Street Tunnel headed by class A1 No. 2588 ‘ Tracery ’ in 1930 . |
26 | However , the scoring information they contain comes in the form of lists of performers in a given entrée that , although valuable , are subject to certain limitations . |
27 | Can I buy an overdrive for a Range Rover ( there 's so many discount offers in the mag ) or get a used one and make the linkage myself ? |
28 | The Delft Cycle Plan of 1979 recognised the deteriorating conditions for many cycle trips within the city and designated four criteria for plan development : quality of facilities , quantity of provision , continuity of the network and comfort in its use . |
29 | But this , Dinda 's underwear is so flimsy , bras , and pants and ankle socks and nylon , then , minuet space for airing off my bras , usually tuck them behind the pipes so they do n't get mixed up with but Keith 's see rummages through the socks and underwear |
30 | I hope that the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh , and other hon. Members who represent Northern Ireland , will agree that one of the absolute keys is to ensure that the money we spend gets to the people who most deserve and need it as quickly as possible . |