Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2 provides a possible scheme for staging living embryos , although the criteria used may have to be refined or modified according to the nature of the experiment . |
| 2 | The degree of intestinal metaplasia was classified as absent , incomplete , complete or mixed according to the criteria of Filipe and Jass . |
| 3 | A cup of tea , or similar , is always a good relaxing agent , always to be offered or accepted depending on the venue . |
| 4 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 5 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 6 | This article will tackle each in turn and make suggestions as to how the problems can be relieved or eliminated depending on the user 's needs . |
| 7 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 8 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited China on Dec. 17-19 ( returning earlier than scheduled owing to the political situation in Russia — see p. 39223 ) . |
| 9 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 10 | Power could be obtained for operating these lifts by means of Oil Engines — which could be started and stopped according to the exigencies of the traffic — without loss or expense of continuous attention and waste of fuel . |
| 11 | Split rings enough to position along each vertical row of tape , and spaced according to the size of the finished pleat ( e.g. , every 20cm ( 8in ) for a 10cm ( 4in ) pleat ) . |
| 12 | The social activities of the Councils were numerous and varied according to the locality . |
| 13 | The rise in anal pressure during the manoeuvre was much lower in spinal patients than in controls ( Fig 1 ) and varied according to the level of the spinal lesion . |
| 14 | Prior to naming the polymer , the CRU is oriented and named according to the established principles or organic nomenclature for naming bivalent and multivalent groups . |
| 15 | These are designed and manufactured according to the requirements of a particular order . |
| 16 | A range of modellers should thus be made available and selected according to the needs of the specific problem being investigated . |
| 17 | Old-time Nez Perce shirt of the 1840s , short in length and fashioned according to the shape of the animal skin . |
| 18 | Examining the cultural foundations through which societies characterised themselves ( e.g. myths , rituals , games ) , anthropologists increasingly perceived that history is culturally ordered and produced according to the structures by which historical happenings are understood . |
| 19 | One recent study has also defined the types of hyperlipidaemia by ultracentrifugation and classified according to the Fredrickson types in a group of 86 Type 2 diabetics and a control group . |
| 20 | All endoscopic biopsy specimens and gastrectomy material were reviewed and classified according to the proposals of Isaacson et al . |
| 21 | It is as if labour is a thing which comes naturally on the market and then inevitably is bought and sold according to the laws of supply and demand . |
| 22 | For longer trips , there are travel sickness tablets especially for dogs and even those made for human consumption can be very beneficial if used according to the instructions for dosing a child . |
| 23 | In the arousal condition the same beginning and ending to the sequence was used , but in the middle the boy was hit by a car and shown lying on the car bonnet bleeding heavily before being transported to hospital . |
| 24 | Words such as " both " , " pint " , and " steak " become unrecognisable if pronounced according to the GPC rules ( they would rhyme with " moth " , " mint " , and " meek " ) , and irregular words such as " bread " , " come " , and " wild " actually become different words when pronounced according to these rules ( i.e. , " breed " , " comb " , and " willed " ) . |
| 25 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 26 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 27 | Obviously he does not deny the cat 's whining and agitated leaping in the presence of the ball , nor does he refuse its possession of ‘ sensory data ‘ , but these will not show what the cat believes ; namely , ‘ what categories of things it recognises ’ . |
| 28 | Bandages of various shapes and sizes can be used and fitted according to the nature of each ‘ injury ’ . |
| 29 | The raw material for consumer targeting includes : a ) Official UK Census of Population statistics , which may be sorted , permutated and aggregated according to the analysis requirements . |
| 30 | A nationwide strike by medical workers beginning in April intensified during May and achieved backing from the Federation of Independent Trade Unions . |