Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Finally , we may return to the fundamental difference between the mediation and differentiation theories of acquired distinctiveness — for the former the associations formed during distinctiveness training play a critical role , whereas for the latter these associations are essentially irrelevant .
2 Table 6.8 is an example of the many such rules which can be constructed ; variants sharing the same specification with respect to the feature [ low ] are conflated , so that patterns of variation on this dimension may be examined in each community in a range of phonetic environments .
3 So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two .
4 Of the many more books worth seeing , Electrical Conduction and Behaviour in ‘ Simple ’ Invertebrates edited by G. Shelton ( Oxford UP £40 ) researches the parts other neurobiologies can not reach .
5 And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well .
6 The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort .
7 Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch .
8 They have been encouraged to be suspicious of whatever may be ‘ unsound ’ ( a favourite Oxbridge concept ) ; they owe a sentimental and intellectual allegiance to the same few places ; barely one of them has a ‘ regional ’ accent .
9 My throat would itch with the dust of doves who enquired and conversed on the same few notes , while the heavy ticking of the estate clock at the top of a rotting ladder reverberated around the eight chalk walls where game used to be hung .
  Next page