Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In isolation , Williamson 's discussion neglects the effects of organizational changes on distribution and monopoly power . |
| 2 | The foregoing analysis neglects the effects of firms ' other competitive variables such as product quality , product range and product differentiation . |
| 3 | A hypothesis which fits the constraints of the knowledge sources . |
| 4 | Find the path spanning the utterance ( along the x axis ) which fits the constraints of the levels ( along the y axis ) better than any of the other paths ( along the z axis ) . |
| 5 | A purse-string mechanism based on a contractile cable fits the observations of others who have investigated embryonic wound healing and seen similar patterns of epidermal movement . |
| 6 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 7 | A blend of permissiveness and forcefulness , combined with warmth and encouragement , fits the recommendations of child-rearing specialists who are concerned with fostering the sort of children who are socially outgoing , friendly , creative and reasonably independent and self-assertive . |
| 8 | Section 1(7) of the Companies Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 prohibits the directors of a company from procuring it to purchase its own shares through the market with a view to the making of a profit or the avoidance of a loss ( whether for the directors or any other person ) at a time when the directors are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 9 | It tackles the problems of both dispersing stubborn , localised fat deposits and toning up an uneven , ‘ lumpy ’ skin tone with a revolutionary two-step ‘ liposome-system ’ . |
| 10 | Its strategy builds upon the Region 's strengths , tackles the problems of deprived areas , accommodates new development , cares for the environment and , above all , puts people and their communities first . |
| 11 | If your shop accepts credit cards ( eg Access , Visa etc ) you will have a special form on which to record details of the transaction together with a machine which imprints the details from the card on to the form . |
| 12 | Another column — budget — records the forecasts for the year and for each period and a third — variance — the difference between budget and actual for each period . |
| 13 | Another column — budget — records the forecasts for the year and for each period and a third — variance — the difference between budget and actual for each period . |
| 14 | The hotel 's sommelier records the origins of the wines in a large book , where guests can add their own comments and those who select a special vintage from one of the great chateau have their names inscribed in copper . |
| 15 | A just-opened Ministry of Home Security file records the efforts of the ‘ counter rumours bureau ’ . |
| 16 | It records the memories of a Miss Marjory Mary MacKinnon of Rose Cottage , Tobermory , born there in 1864 . |
| 17 | A section of the form records the estimates for sales and production volumes . |
| 18 | A section of the form records the estimates for sales and production volumes . |
| 19 | This is a comprehensively researched document which records the effects of an industrially devastated environment upon the most vulnerable group of human beings — children . |
| 20 | Many resistivity meters and magnetometers can now be fitted with a data recorder , which records the readings in computer-readable form so that the results can be fed directly into a computer as soon as the survey is finished . |
| 21 | So a doctor writes down his patient 's symptoms , an architect writes down his client 's requirements , Hansard records the proceedings of the British Parliament , we write down friends ' addresses , telephone numbers , recipes , knitting patterns , and so on . |
| 22 | If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle . |
| 23 | Havelock Wilson records the tactics of both sides in Liverpool in June and July 1889 : " I saw some of the principal owners at the beginning and endeavoured to have all questions settled on conciliatory lines . |
| 24 | State of Fear records the mechanisms by which a cloak of secrecy has increasingly enveloped Myanmar , and documents the history , traditions laws and practice of censorship since 1962 , when a military coup brought General Ne Win to power and ended the parliamentary era . |
| 25 | The Word of God records the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in John chapter 16 verse 33 when He said ‘ These things I have spoken unto you , that IN ME YE MIGHT HAVE PEACE . ’ |
| 26 | The infant 's brain records the results of this modification and gradually ‘ constructs ’ a model of reality on that basis . |
| 27 | It records the names of some 70,000 of the forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the battle in the neighbourhood and have no known grave . |
| 28 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |
| 29 | Not only does Nithard say in which vernacular languages the two kings addressed their men ( though he records the addresses in Latin ) , but he gives the ensuing oaths in vernacular texts that are among the earliest examples of Old High German and Old French . |
| 30 | The book also records the comments of 20 UK gaijin ( foreign ) scientists who have worked in Japan on these schemes . |