Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all ‘ obvious ’ truths ; but some were non-evaluative propositions , such as that wholes equal the sum of their parts , while others were various principles of morality . |
| 2 | ‘ Axioms ’ or ‘ maxims ’ , such as that wholes equal the sum of their parts , were among the premisses of the demonstrative syllogisms of the doctrine of scientia , and some seventeenth-century developments of the doctrine said that they were innate . |
| 3 | But these riots are not satisfactorily explained by the orthodox account either , for such institutions lack the parti-cular , toxic mix' of prisoners which is supposed to be an important causative factor in inmate disorder . |
| 4 | For such results show the police to be ‘ on the side of righteousness ’ , arraigned with the numerically superior forces of goodness and order in their fight against darkness and the void . |
| 5 | And most readers of such documents understand the code so this does not much matter . |
| 6 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 7 | We have little evidence from research as to how the members of such households view the changing balance of the relationship . |
| 8 | The basic questions posed are : First , can children attach themselves to psychological parents whilst they also maintain contact or links with a non-custodial birth parent or other relative ? and second , would the maintenance of such links confuse the child and impair his developing personal and social identity ? |
| 9 | Edward 's preservation of these letters uncover the debt he owed to Helen who brought his idealistic , passionate nature — with its violent occasional swings of mood — into closer contact with her own dreams and desires for fulfilment of her love , in perfect sexual freedom between them , leading to motherhood . |
| 10 | Neither of these approaches necessitate the drawing of precise lines between legal and factual questions . |
| 11 | The first two of these groups cover the need for a policy-making function and an administrative function , the former being the responsibility of the legislative body and the latter being the responsibility undertaken by management . |
| 12 | Other important variables which qualify the impact of these relations of production upon the lives of these groups include the availability of land , whether there is population pressure under the existing production technology , and the degree of interference by the state ( by way of taxes , conscription , price fixing , rural development projects and so on ) . |
| 13 | Of crucial importance is that none of these experiments require the animals to suffer any pain whatsoever . |
| 14 | But , as Bouton and Swartzentruber ( 1989 ) point out , many of these experiments obtain the effect only in rather poorly controlled conditions , making unambiguous interpretation difficult . |
| 15 | It is also true in southern Morocco , in the American Mid-West and in the Canadian Rockies , where the cavernous rocks of these reefs form the most important oil reservoirs and the chief source of wealth in the province of Alberta ( plate 1.11 ) . |
| 16 | All of these nationalities glorify the realms of fish and vegetables , and all use relatively healthful methods of cooking them — steaming , grilling , and quick stir-frying . |
| 17 | Many of these schemes change the environment in which crime might be committed , for example by better street lighting or closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) surveillance . |
| 18 | None of these restrictions inhibit the ability of Commons ' committees to question ministers but they do maintain the curtain surrounding the influence of civil servants . |
| 19 | Britons whose receipt of these cheques let the Confederation of British Industry boast of a boom in ‘ new business ’ . |
| 20 | Different numbers and arrangements of these particles form the hundred or so elements which occur on our planet . |
| 21 | Fast video replay of these frames illustrate the contractile activity more clearly than the freeze frames of this figure . |
| 22 | Both of these writers stress the importance of assessing leadership in the light of the situation . |
| 23 | All of these initiatives demonstrate the fact that the need to pool resources is spurring the library community to greater collaborative efforts . |
| 24 | All of these initiatives share the common approach of adding an additional — clinical — analysis of hospital expenditure . |
| 25 | The remains of these figures resemble the present west pediment in style . |
| 26 | As some of these drugs depress the respiratory centre in the medulla , the premedicated patient should be observed closely for alterations in the respiratory pattern . |
| 27 | Several of these tasks require the collaboration of production with other departments , notably Marketing and Finance . |
| 28 | Women have massive amounts of love invested in fathers , lovers and sons , and many of these women despise the systems their own men may be helping to sustain . |
| 29 | The personal testimonies of these women tell the story of mounting an armed movement in a rural setting , of organising in villages among people with little political experience , and of the specific disappointments faced by women when this struggle was crushed . |
| 30 | Does the inclusion of these women affect the survey findings ? |