Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that to focus analysis in this way neglects the disciplinary forms and technologies through which power operates . |
| 2 | A choreographer who neglects the old rules and any item pertinent to the unfolding of the plot , theme or music is demanding a great deal from an audience . |
| 3 | Integration is viewed in physical terms ; policy increasingly concentrates on people but neglects the true characteristics of people in favour of resources-led practice . |
| 4 | Braitenberg 's scheme is obviously a great over-simplification which neglects the special connections that exist between regions with related functions , but it may nonetheless point to the overall pattern through which the neocortex carries on its extensive conversations with itself . |
| 5 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 6 | Neither Melchett nor Porritt fits the usual patterns of lordship , but their presence is reassuring to members who like to see guarantees of moderation and respectability flown at the masthead . |
| 7 | The Nobel prize for religion ( God forbid it should ever be invented ) will not go to a theologian , or like the peace prize be passed round to whoever fits the political needs of the moment ( with all due respect to Bishop Tutu and not much to Mr Begin ) . |
| 8 | The programmer writes programs to unleash the powers of the machine ; the designer writes an interface for the program that fits the personal needs of tailor , musician , secretary or — dare we hope — journalist . |
| 9 | And sometimes this fits the ethnographic facts in a quite straight-forward way . |
| 10 | This description fits the observable characteristics and progress of the disease , although it might be more appropriate to substitute the social term " " sensitivity " " for the strictly clinical term " allergy " . |
| 11 | Such a construction fits the few facts given in the early biographical sources and such facts as have emerged from the recently published documentary material in a way that the traditional account does not . |
| 12 | Hates the blooming hours but |
| 13 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |
| 14 | As before , whenever the robot moves its gripper to a new position , it records the joint settings J and the torch 's image coordinates I as a new entry ( I , J ) in its set R. |
| 15 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 16 | Table 5.1 records the significant events chronologically . |
| 17 | The third table records the previous uses of land changing to residential use in each of the English regions . |
| 18 | When he comes to the destruction of Carthage in 146 he records the contrasting opinions of the Greeks about Rome 's conduct ( 36.9 ) . |
| 19 | This technique records the exact points in the sentence which the reader fixates , and the time of each fixation . |
| 20 | It seems not theoretically mistaken , but simply anachronistic , an error of praxis , for Goffredo Fofi to complain about the lack of writing which confronts the terrible realities of Italian public life in the 1970s , ‘ that tells who we are , that is immersed in the lives of everyone ’ ( Fofi 1985 : 13 ) . |
| 21 | Competition among the owners of a particular resource may tend to force its price downwards ; those owners for whom its sale involves the greater sacrifices will tend to drop out of the race as the falling price makes it worthwhile for them to sell only fewer and fewer units of the resource . |
| 22 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 23 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 24 | International mail involves the postal services of other countries as well as our own , so we can not give precise service standards . |
| 25 | The research involves the following elements : |
| 26 | From this perspective , professionalism involves the following factors . |
| 27 | This involves the two groups plus a host of other musicians pooling their talents and putting out their releases . |
| 28 | It has also been demonstrated that the metric in the interaction region IV may be taken in the form of the Szekeres line element ( 6.20 ) which involves the four functions , , and satisfying equations ( 6.22 ) . |
| 29 | The series involves the tangled relationships of two families in the London suburb of Blackheath . |
| 30 | Where the findings are even more startling involves the social attitudes of young people . |