Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question needs to be asked , whether such limitations would be valid on moral , ethical or social grounds given the disparities that exist in living standards … |
| 2 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 3 | In the other condition , where later information required the drawing of bridging inferences , such inferences were falsely recognised 58 per cent of the time . |
| 4 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 5 | For each firm in the market , it is possible to define its profit maximizing action ( an output or price ) or best response given the actions of all other firms . |
| 6 | However , if the strings of letters formed words then they were able to accurately report a number of short words containing more than three or four letters given the same exposure . |
| 7 | Changes by either national or local government required the commitment of a major political party to the cause of wholesale reform . |
| 8 | The secret of a long day of battle was fitting the components together : the state of caution ; the state of preparedness ; the state of uncaring action ; the state of elation ; the state of waiting ; so that each stage matched the others in sureness and strength , with every thread of body and mind strung to its finest pitch ready to sing to the touch , from one night 's sleep until the next , or until death itself . |
| 9 | These showed that each chair required the following : |
| 10 | It was no wonder that some politicians promoted the idea of a ‘ Marshall Plan ’ for Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’ |
| 12 | No less than 53 extras portrayed the wartime travelling public , not forgetting a crate of live chickens , one of which actually laid an egg on set ! |
| 13 | Furthermore , it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease . |
| 14 | Being together in this way did not mean that either party treated the other with excessive informality but it did mean that teachers knew pupils well . |
| 15 | Dealing with Mr. Hamer 's submission that these circumstances affected the bank with the undue influence exercised by the husband , Lloyd L.J . |
| 16 | Fossil evidence reveals that these giants occupied the woodlands and mountain forests of southern China until the ice ages drove them south into what are now the islands of Sumatra and Borneo . |
| 17 | also rejected the argument that surrounding circumstances qualified the prima facie meaning of the document . |
| 18 | Those of us who were privileged to hear Paddy Ladd 's moving account of the struggles and pride of the deaf community at last year 's International Conference in Bristol , England , will long remember his response to a challenge from the floor that many parents regarded the birth of their deaf children as tragedies . |
| 19 | HONG KONG — More than 3,000 people marked the 40th anniversary of Communist rule in China yesterday by rallying to protest against the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Peking , AP reports . |
| 20 | Up until the mid twentieth century , the obvious ( and copious ) loss of fluid from the body via the gastrointestinal tract had led to the assumption that diarrhoeal diseases rendered the alimentary canal completely incapable of performing its proper function of absorbing ingested fluid and nutrients . |
| 21 | More than 50 listeners jammed the Radio Cleveland switchboard for two and a half hours yesterday to complain about the company . |
| 22 | Due to the relatively small number of tags and the frequency with which some of these tags are found ( e.g. over 20% of the words in the lexicon are usually found behaving as common nouns ) there is often more than one word given the top rank in any position . |
| 23 | results are consistent between assessors , where more than one assessor assessed the same unit/module ; |
| 24 | From then until the final three minutes rarely more than one basket separated the teams , as Tigers came back again , until Roberts scored and free-throws from Tom Seaman and Paul James gave Bracknell breathing space at 95-92 . |
| 25 | This book would not be complete without a glance at a place where , more than any other , the ideals of colonial administration and administrative reality appeared to exist in harmony together — those rolling grasslands of the Great Rift Valley , on either side of the border between Kenya and Tanganyika , where lived the people who more than any other fascinated the Europeans who came to East Africa : the Masai . |
| 26 | The material which more than any other influenced the whole course and design of Roman architecture was concrete and this made the vaulting of huge spans possible . |
| 27 | It is likely that Soviet leaders regarded the EEC plan as a frustrating obstacle to negotiations on their own terms . |
| 28 | These numbers are given in the histogram at the left , 1 meaning that a cell could only be activated through the contralateral eye , 7 that it could only be activated through the ipsilateral eye , and intermediate numbers indicating intermediate degrees of ocular dominance ; thus group 4 means that both eyes affected the neuron equally . |
| 29 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 30 | MORE than 1,000 runners disturbed the lazy calm of a country Sunday morning as they battled it out in the 11th Crosby 10k event . |