Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this method the idling current can be limited to very low values whilst maintaining the large voltage and current swings required to drive a loudspeaker . |
| 2 | In the circumstances , I find it difficult to understand why the same principle should not , in similar circumstances , apply to other public authorities when exercising the function of law enforcer in the public interest . |
| 3 | But there 's no bigger drain on public funds than financing the dole . |
| 4 | Belgium and Luxembourg on March 2 , 1990 , abolished the dual exchange rate used within their monetary union which pegged the Luxembourg-Belgian franc for current commercial transactions while allowing the rate for financial transactions to float freely . |
| 5 | It is seen by social workers as confirming the decisions of the courts and children 's panel that inter-sibling abuse took place . |
| 6 | Like Leavis , Pinto sees the pre-war pattern of English studies as blocking the development of a new conception of English as the centre of humanistic studies in a modern university . |
| 7 | A few years after Lanfranc 's arrival , Eadmer described the English monks as living the lives of earls rather than monks , ‘ in all worldly glory , with gold and silver , with changes of fine clothes and delicate food , not to speak of the various kinds of musical instruments in which they delighted , and the horses , dogs and hawks with which they sometimes took exercise ’ . |
| 8 | The contrasted physical appearance of the different " races " of man ( stature , body shape , skin colour , hair-form etc. ) originated as adaptations to life under varying climatic and dietary conditions as did the fact that resistance to particular diseases varies markedly in different populations . |
| 9 | It identified women , the supposedly better-off Southerners , and AB social groupings as becoming the most enthusiastic practitioners , and that regionally the keenest DIYers come from the South-west and the least keen from Lancashire . |
| 10 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 11 | We will back the regulators of the financial services industry in their efforts to achieve high standards while keeping the rule books down to manageable size . |
| 12 | For , to express warmth , to be constantly person-oriented and conciliatory , it is clearly ‘ necessary ’ that the housewife-wife-mother not be occupied with such highly instrumental tasks as cleaning the house , budgeting the housekeeping money , laundering the clothes , and throwing out the rubbish . |
| 13 | During autumn and winter months they produce increased amounts of more fertile semen , the malodorous scent glands behind the horn-bearing areas increase in activity and libido and such charming habits as spraying the backs of their front legs with urine increase . |
| 14 | Genette distinguishes parody from other forms of ‘ hypertextuality ’ as that ludic mode which effects punctual and systematic transformations of specific texts while retaining the noble style of the original ( 1982:33–5 ) . |
| 15 | The exclusion on the grounds of race of a people who laid as much emphasis on their own ethnic origins as did the Japanese , and who implicitly believed in their own superiority , appeared an unpardonable insult . |
| 16 | The way they are cut also disguises her smallish breasts and widish hips while making the most of her height : thus are ideology and vanity equally satisfied . |
| 17 | There are similar problems when using the forms to assess children in short-term or respite care . |
| 18 | The buyer 's greatest exposure will come not so much from the fact that he has accepted the seller 's standard conditions as governing the contract between them , but from situations where there is a mismatch between the obligations undertaken by the seller in favour of the buyer under the subcontract , and the obligations undertaken by the buyer to his customer under the prime contract . |
| 19 | The Eliasian approach , as adapted by Cas Wouters , places even less emphasis on changing religious influences on contemporary moral codes than does the Marxist . |
| 20 | As a matter of drafting it is important to ensure that the grounds are treated as separate so that any one of which may be taken by the remaining partners as justifying the service of an expulsion notice . |
| 21 | Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail . |
| 22 | This system would seem on the face of it to have freed the counties from the corrupt and intrusive purveyors while guaranteeing the Crown 's interests . |
| 23 | The study classified adjustments as modifying the cause , modifying the loss or distributing the loss and established that while flood control expenditures had multiplied the level of flood damages had risen , and that the natural purpose of reducing the toll of flood losses by building flood control projects had not been achieved ( White , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | This was something of an exaggeration , and paleontologists made serious mistakes when reconstructing the more bizarre species from the older rocks , but only the anatomist could hope to make sense out of the discoveries . |
| 25 | It is certainly much easier for them to win a great many individual battles than to win the war . |
| 26 | The reluctance of UK Authorities to sanction their release — for such agricultural purposes as extending the range of plants which harbour nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots — is understandable . |
| 27 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 28 | Dae-sook Suh has remarked that there is truth in the saying that the Japanese police created more communists by their draconian methods than did the Comintern by its intrigues . |
| 29 | Douglas Jay quotes the Swedish , Dutch , Swiss , West German and Austrian Socialist parties as admitting the desirability of privately owned production , competition and the market economy . |
| 30 | Even a single projector makes possible such basic effects as running the film backwards , as in the reverse slap already mentioned in Day for Night . |