Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 2 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 3 | This notice does not constitute an admission either that the Act applies to this hotel or that liability thereunder attaches to the proprietor of this hotel in any particular case . |
| 4 | Packages like Omicron 's XIS and Multisoft Premier Plus offer multicurrency facilities in all of their accounting and distribution ledgers , whereas the Sage Sovereign general ledger only works in the user 's chosen base currency , although its sales and purchase ledgers are multicurrency . |
| 5 | The hope only emerges as the narrative proceeds . |
| 6 | A fixed-term contract naturally expires at the end of the contract period . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) The purpose of the subsection is to make it clear that the extension of the permitted hours only applies to the part of the premises set apart for the consumption of main meals by a person having a table meal there . |
| 8 | CGT only applies to the actual profit you make , so if you buy shares to the value of £25,000 and sell them later for £35,000 the taxman will only be interested in the £1 0,000 profit you have gained . |
| 9 | The implications of ‘ story ’ have hardened to the extent that Federman constantly refers to the narrative as a ‘ recitation ’ , as if he were writing over earlier texts such as Beat novels . |
| 10 | Emma Thompson will continue her rise in Remains of the Day and Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 11 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 12 | The visibility of the flashing l.e.d. obviously depends on the level of ambient light in the car ; it is most eye-catching at night . |
| 13 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 14 | However , the WPS only works with the HP LaserJet II or IIIs . |
| 15 | Again moving from a reach towards a rung the boat effectively turns underneath the rig and the sail stays at that same angle . |
| 16 | The winner seems to be determined by how strongly the extension adheres to the wall , and the cell eventually moves to the site where the attachments are strongest . |
| 17 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 18 | This situation is a common occurrence in stronger winds when the inexperienced sailor lacks the technique to sheet in fully , so he edges along partly ‘ closing the door ’ , and as a result slowly turns into the wind . |
| 19 | The intuition is that , as delivery approaches , the future slowly turns into the spot . |
| 20 | In a statement yesterday , the police chiefs said : ‘ The association wholeheartedly agrees with the views expressed by Mr Adair . |
| 21 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 22 | The strain on the pound only adds to the pressure on interest levels . |
| 23 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 25 | Mailer apparently concurs with the belief he attributes to Lawrence , that ‘ men and women can survive only it they reach the depths of their own sex down within themselves ’ ( p. 147 ) . |
| 26 | As reminiscence naturally proceeds from the past to the present , it can often give the counsellor an indication of where , and at what period , to focus attention in the search for the origins of the counsellee 's particular mental state or circumstances . |
| 27 | Natural hazard research necessarily focuses upon the interrelation of geophysical events and human activity and as such is an important feature of recent research and one that some such as Parker and Harding ( 1979 ) have proclaimed to be of central and traditional concern to geographers and their view is included in Table 6.2 . |
| 28 | An ambivalence to assessment in Catholic schools rightly stems from the view that religious education in its entirety can not be submitted to formal and sharply focussed testing because of its very nature and its concern with personal faith and commitment . |
| 29 | The Royal Mail generally evokes in the reader 's mind an image of a coachman with horn , and an armed guard , dashing through the night behind a team of six or more lathered horses . |
| 30 | Most of the evidence we find for full-time craftsmen nevertheless comes from the temples of the Middle and Late Minoan periods , so we should see the main period of craft industries as belonging to an urban society and in particular to the temples within that urban society . |