Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [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 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 3 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 4 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 5 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 6 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 7 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 8 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 9 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | This may not strike some of you as unusual but in my area silver coins rarely come from the ground in their natural colour ; they are usually black or slightly grey . |
| 11 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 12 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 13 | In addition , it has been shown that Ac-ASA is the form of the drug predominantly found in the rectal mucosa of patients taking oral sulphasalazine . |
| 14 | The Reagan forces claimed that the previous administration , anxious to avoid a tax increase in an election year , had left behind a sizeable budgetary deficit thereby forcing on the new governor the need to introduce legislation substantially raising some forms of taxation . |
| 15 | Kenneth Markham , who works for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , funded by the New Zealand government , analysed flavonoids , photo-protective pigments which are synthesised in plants when they are exposed to harmful UV-B radiation , the wavelength most affected by the depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 16 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 17 | Trade union horizons rarely rise above the economistic , and fail to address the political and cultural aspects of the crisis that working class people are living through . |
| 18 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 19 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 20 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 21 | Are any weatherproof switches properly protected from the elements ? |
| 22 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 23 | Environmental groups successfully appealed against the issue of the general permit , and in July 1987 , won an injunction which cut short the salmon season for the drift-net fleet . |
| 24 | If by the late seventies the intellectual arguments of poststructuralism began to seem virtually unanswerable , resistance eventually crystallized around the question of history . |
| 25 | Cardiff slowly pushed at the door , widening the thin jet-black wedge . |
| 26 | The grey outline of the submarine slowly disappeared into the darkness , and they were alone . |
| 27 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 28 | Why is it , for example , that every single Trust employee above the level of gardener 's mate speaks with an exquisite Wykehamist accent of the kind rarely heard outside the better cavalry regiments ? |
| 29 | These two patterns of behaviour both involve layers in which there is convection due to the driving component little modified by the presence of the other component . |
| 30 | The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis , the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan 's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action , even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement . |