Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw , experiments by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) on auditory word recognition showed that a word can be identified more rapidly if it is predictable , that is , if there are syntactic and/or semantic constraints on the number of possible words which might occupy that particular position in a sentence . |
| 2 | When a government department is preparing fresh legislation it will frequently consult with outside agencies with a particular interest in and/or specialized knowledge of the subject . |
| 3 | It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed . |
| 4 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |
| 5 | And Ron Barry , who inspected and passed them , is hardly likely at this stage willingly to foist unfair or unsuitable fences on the profession he so honourably adorned . |
| 6 | The disorder is sometimes seen as serving a homoeostatic or stabilising role in the family . |
| 7 | While translating a treatise by the Scottish physician Dr William Cullen on the use of cinchona or Peruvian bark in the treatment of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , he was struck by Cullen 's assertion that the therapeutic effects of cinchona were due to its tonic , bitter and astringent qualities . |
| 8 | If they have come to an arrangement with British Rail under the bus substitution programme and they consider that they are not getting enough money , there will be no cosy chats or friendly discussions in the board room , they will be absolutely ruthless and cut the services . |
| 9 | ( 7 ) Finally , you ought to accustom yourself to writing cross-references to the same or allied topics in the margins of the textbooks . |
| 10 | At first trawl , and , of course , that is not impeccable as an approach , there seems to be no reference to a direct and discrete book , chapter or article on age discrimination in the membership of or allied involvement in the voluntary and community sector . |
| 11 | As most reflectance data were obtained from coal seams or coaly matter of the Westphalian , extrapolations of the measured values to the top Carboniferous were necessary , sometimes over vertical distances of several hundred meters . |
| 12 | Anything that alters the rewarding or punishing effect of the learning task ( if you are less hungry , thirsty or fearful , you are less likely to work hard to learn a task which provides food , drink or avoidance of electric shock as a prize for success ) will also affect the study of learning and memory . |
| 13 | This encourages a teleological or hierarchical view of the relation between the elements of the structure on the one hand , and its existence as a closed totality on the other : the parts are subordinated to the whole in a manner that conflicts with the principle of différance . |
| 14 | In later man , where it is necessary to study less outstanding differences between groups , series of at least forty or fifty skeletons of the same sex are needed before reliable statistical analyses are possible . |
| 15 | The stress laid on the new Festival of Purification of the Temple favours a date in the late second century B.C. In other words , I am inclined to put both I and II Maccabees in the last decades of the second century B.C. , about forty or fifty years after the death of Antiochus IV in 164 B.C. The two main Jewish sources were written when Judaea had become an independent and expansionist state . |
| 16 | Kugel 's emphasis is on the additive or emphatic aspect of the B-line : " A is so , and what 's more , B is so " . |
| 17 | You cover the parts listed on pages two and three , which is engine , gearbox , erm differential , prop shaft , brakes , electrical , etc. , but that 's qualified by the fact that you do n't cover any parts which were faulty at the time of purchase , or inherent faults at the time of purchase , |
| 18 | Ernst & Young in the US has paid $400m in settlement of its outstanding savings & loan-related disputes with the government . |
| 19 | And no open-ended discussion , in the wider social , economic and political contexts , of possible alternatives or possible criticisms of the assumptions , can be undertaken . |
| 20 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 21 | The overall quality of the operation , and therefore its current value as a lending risk , is assessed by the valuer from every relevant viewpoint — the calibre , presentation and situation of the premises , current and potential competition , likely or possible changes in the local development plan , possible changes in the demography of the area and other commercial considerations . |
| 22 | The FRG and the USSR reaffirm that they will refrain from threats of the use of force which are directed against the territorial integrity or political independence of the other side … |
| 23 | The process of industrial production becomes more significant than social or political variations in the society in which organizations are located as determinants of internal structures of organizational power . |
| 24 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 25 | By the 1951 convention , the international community has singled out the persecution of the individual on racial , religious or political grounds as the cause for special concern . |
| 26 | Such a scheme would undoubtedly provide a greater degree of certainty than under the present law but would be open to the objection that it would leave without redress any persons suffering injury from an unlisted activity , whether omission arose from ignorance of the risk or commercial or political pressures on the government of the day . |
| 27 | Culturally deprived and still closely tied to the village , the latter did nothing to raise the level of sophistication or political consciousness of the proto-bourgeoisie . |
| 28 | Police have ruled out any sectarian or political motive behind the murder bid . |
| 29 | " Culture " provided a powerful countervailing force to those by now discredited attempts from the left during the 1930s to introduce " class as a category bearing on literature.a Liberty and individual freedom could now be defined in cultural rather than social or political terms as the free play of the human critical and evaluative impulse . |
| 30 | Problems have also arisen where there are sharp social or political rifts in the community , and where a school catchment area includes a wide disparity of income levels . |