Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new remit brings to the fore locally many of the larger issues about the UDCs that in its original form had been relatively irrelevant to the operation of MDC . |
| 2 | With that brilliant pair Torville and Dean so much in the news , Easter Course members at Walsall could n't believe their eyes when these idols appeared before them — on roller skates ! |
| 3 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 4 | It is very unfortunate therefore that , in Britain especially , social anthropologists have , on the whole , displayed towards colleagues in adjacent disciplines so little of the ecumenical tolerance with which they habitually approach exotic tribesmen . |
| 5 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 6 | The range of student ‘ learning ’ strategies explored covers only some of the lower and intermediate stages of intellectual growth I have just outlined . |
| 7 | His Remarks touching Geography especially that of the British Isles ( 1822 ) proposed the introduction of Napoleonic departments , while his Horae Viaticae ( 1836 ) included a novel about a radical reforming pope . |
| 8 | Thanks so much to the thousands of you who took the time and trouble to fill out the Pet Census in the April issue . |
| 9 | Dearest Ma Thanks so much for the parcel . |
| 10 | Thanks so much for the supper . ’ |
| 11 | Out of 14 specific recommendations made in Plan for Action only those regarding the ‘ pump priming ’ consultants and the introduction of the staff grade have been entirely implemented . |
| 12 | With a roar of rage , Buddie leaped from his chair , kicked the bulldog , struck Rosie a back-handed blow and shoved Frankie aside all in the same movement . |
| 13 | The tombs represent a period of wealth and expansion in the sixth and seventh centuries B.C. Many of the finds in sculpture and decoration have been taken to museums , but the chambers remain . |
| 14 | With an average age of 60 , customers choose his trips as much for the company of like-minded people as for the presence of an expert lecturer . |
| 15 | In north west Scotland sailing and climbing are ideal combinations as much of the wilder country can be more quickly reached by sea . |
| 16 | According to our experience the pancreatic blood flow in caerulein induced pancreatitis is significantly reduced already after two hours of caerulein infusion and then this reduction progresses to reach after five hours of infusion about half of the normal flow . |
| 17 | Only a couple of months ago some inside the Federal Reserve thought it might loosen monetary policy this summer one last time . |
| 18 | I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ? |
| 19 | BY the time Mark Wright lifted the FA Cup on Saturday even those outside the North-East were becoming sick of the spoon-fed memories of 1973 . |
| 20 | The goal of a quiet residential street would not be reached ; the result would be a quiet but unsafe street dominated by traffic , even if there were no cars there most of the time . |
| 21 | If England were looking to the future then some of the players should have been selected years ago . |
| 22 | If your weight remains constant you must be using up all your calories , but if you are gaining weight then some of the calories you consume are being stored as fat . |
| 23 | Nicky finds himself in Brooklyn where most of the other Puerto Ricans live . |
| 24 | Therefore , if this backward boy was to get a good education , he must somehow be crammed up or taught up to scrape a scholarship at one of the big independent schools where most of the fees would be paid for scholars . |
| 25 | Built entirely of black glass , it marked the beginning of what was known as Death Row , a stretch of downtown First Avenue where most of the big funeral parlours had their offices . |
| 26 | At the same time it should be borne in mind that much of the recent growth in employment in the service industries h-as been in part-time work . |
| 27 | This was no mean achievement , bearing in mind that much of the action takes place in the contestants ’ changing room . |
| 28 | School seems to offer both our groups of informants very little in the way of opportunities alternative to those formulated in the official theory of educational establishments . |
| 29 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 30 | Media publicity has brought the once secret martial arts very much to the forefront and styles have begun to emerge from many countries in southeast Asia . |