Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence . |
| 2 | It is unsurprising , therefore , to find that the great majority of training about disruption places the problems firmly within the child , their family , their background , their learning difficulties . |
| 3 | Uniformity implies standardization and common procedures ; the pressure for uniformity includes the economies of standardization , the need for interchangeability in product systems , the need for control of processes , the need for a standard quality product , specialization of markets and the need for common management controls . |
| 4 | The discussion above by no means exhausts the observations that might be made about postnominal attributives . |
| 5 | But before we move on to institutional questions , we should recognize that whilst figure 2.1 illustrates a natural monopoly , it by no means exhausts the possibilities . |
| 6 | His essay , ‘ Of Parents and Children ’ , still makes salutary reading , and by no means sings the praises of paternity ; it suggests that most of the ‘ noblest works ’ of civilisation have been accomplished by the childless . |
| 7 | He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Reynolds , a youth justice team manager for Dorset says the courts are still ‘ far too interested in non-offence-related issues where females are concerned . |
| 9 | At most institutions , the preferred method of assessment combines the marks obtained by students in " continuous assessment " throughout the academic year with final examination results . |
| 10 | Whose drum of skin receives the breezes ’ whisper |
| 11 | The lack of shell leaves the larvae unprotected . |
| 12 | The Duke of Norfolk says the Lords should be replaced by an elected chamber , and Earl Spencer — brother of the Princess of Wales — does not attend because he acknowledges that the system is undemocratic . |
| 13 | This large and varied group of arthropods includes the giants of the phylum , as well as tiny spiders hardly visible to the unaided eye . |
| 14 | The principal legacy of Britain 's past world role lies in the important growth of the City in the 1980s , which of course benefits the provinces of Britain only indirectly . |
| 15 | Another class of transformations contains the similarities , transformations that alter size , but not shape . |
| 16 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 17 | The culture-ideology of consumerism produces the values and attitudes that create and sustain the need for the products . |
| 18 | The physical presence of continents complicates the routes of the currents and the tides . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For the patients who respond to such treatment , there is probably a subtle interplay of mental and physical factors — the distressing symptoms lead to anxiety or depression , and the disturbed state of mind makes the symptoms worse . |
| 21 | This line of reasoning enables the courts to use the Convention as a means of restricting the operation of statutes . |
| 22 | This method of reasoning identifies the conditions or circumstances which negative voluntariness or vitiate consent . |
| 23 | The naming of relationships marks the beginnings of moral sanctions . |
| 24 | The Form of Living illuminates the stages of the way of life which Rolle believed would enable these beliefs enacted in building and ritual to become psychological realities . |
| 25 | This branch of thermodynamics applies the laws of statistics to component microscopic particles . |
| 26 | Head of Department has the kids . |
| 27 | On coasts of coral atolls the effects of hurricanes are shown to be significant not only to the reef morphology but also to the organisms and the total environment ( Stoddart , 1962 ) and in drainage basins in general and along river channels in particular the impact of rare floods and the time necessary for recovery has been investigated . |
| 28 | Although a plot of sorts involves the intrigues of the Egyptian Queen , whose enfeebled brother and consort has no power to break her obsessive love for ‘ the Wanderer ’ , the story turns on the simple fact that Odysseus must for ever love an unattainable ideal . |
| 29 | When a beam of light strikes the atoms or molecules of the medium , the electrons are perturbed or displaced and oscillate about their equilibrium positions with the same frequency as the exciting beam . |
| 30 | Three years after the Act was passed , the hon. Lady still does not seem to understand that local management of schools funds the pupils and not the teachers . |