Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the sale or purchase of goods , being goods either usually employed by the firm for its own business , or in which the firm deals , or goods belonging to the firm ; |
| 2 | The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation . |
| 3 | Ministers are more subtle , describing the review as ‘ seeking to identify areas where better targeting can be achieved or from which the public sector can withdraw altogether . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Background ’ shall mean any inventions designs computer software reports drawings and other works and information made available before or during the Project but not generated under the Project and either belonging to the contributing Party or to which the contributing Party has the necessary rights for the purposes of the Project . |
| 5 | A further extension through this horizon is then possible up to the next surface on which or at which the space-time again splits into two separating gravitational waves which are the time reverse of the initial approaching waves . |
| 6 | On or around them the chief bookshops are to be found . |
| 7 | Alec said that for him the daily instruction from the word of God in one 's quiet time was the place where , over a period of weeks , we should receive guidance from God . |
| 8 | I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much . |
| 9 | Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society . |
| 10 | In the epistle to the Hebrews ( by an unknown Christian of learning and sophistication ) there is equal emphasis both upon the spontaneity and fullness of Jesus ' humanity and upon the faith that in him the eternal Son of the Father has come to unite believers to himself ; he is the pioneer of our salvation , our representative bringing to the Father and to the heavenly company those who put their trust in him . |
| 11 | This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life . |
| 12 | They could have easily made that to us the local planners who have to determine what kind of jobs go where and we could have discussed it with them . |
| 13 | Colleges should be doing to meet the needs of Roman Catholic schools , notwithstanding the harsh economic regime they share with the rest of higher education , it seems fair to conclude that without them the Roman Catholic educational sector would be very much the poorer . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if for her the impossible was not merely possible , not merely probable but certain , she destroyed the route to wonder that might have enhanced her living days . |
| 15 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 16 | In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides . |
| 17 | ( For some peculiar reason the Boeing company speak of the ‘ chord ’ when referring to what is known in Britain as a ‘ spar boom ’ and for which the standard American expression is ‘ spar cap . ’ |
| 18 | Supplementary financing Providing about 8 per cent of funds , this facility , established in 1977 , is intended to assist countries with longer-term problems in their balance of payments , and for which the normal facilities of the Fund are not adequate . |
| 19 | It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised . |
| 20 | It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised . |
| 21 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 22 | The 40 remaining patients had proved hypoxaemic events — that is , a fall in skin po 2 and Sao 2 , or both — with no evidence of epilepsy or suffocation and for which the precise mechanism remains undetermined but was probably respiratory in origin . |
| 23 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 24 | ‘ How ’ , he asked , ‘ can Mussolini send the boys to fight in a country where the winters are so incredibly cold and for which the Italian Army , even the Alpini , are so badly equipped ? |
| 25 | If the action continued , he argues , damage would result to his business or personal interests which would be irreparable and for which the subsequent payment of compensation would be an inadequate remedy . |
| 26 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
| 27 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 28 | In female worms the intestine terminates in an anus while in males there is a cloaca which functions as an anus , and into which opens the vas deferens and through which the copulatory spicules may be extruded . |
| 29 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 30 | Warwickshire , the county of Percy Jeeves , killed in the First World War , and after whom the resourceful butler was named ; Warwickshire whose tie P.G . |