Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 2 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 3 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |
| 4 | Therefore representative democracy presents itself as the best compromise . |
| 5 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 6 | Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape . |
| 7 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 8 | Conceptions which in the 1960s might have precipitated a ‘ forced ’ marriage now either lead to abortion or , increasingly , to births in non-marital unions , concerning which more will be said later . |
| 9 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 10 | Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 . |
| 11 | But it 's ‘ Real Thing ’ , a vicious , funk-oriented cacophony that truly sends the album out in style and catapults them into the five star catch area . |
| 12 | But it 's ‘ Real Thing ’ , a vicious , funk-oriented cacophony that truly sends the album out in style and catapults them into the five star catch area . |
| 13 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 14 | Tatian was also influential for making a harmony of the four gospels which in the Syriac-speaking churches of the East long remained the standard lectionary text . |
| 15 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |
| 16 | Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them . |
| 17 | To Slumptown have also been attracted many from other countries who during the 1950s were drawn by the glittering promises of prosperity diligently advertised by Great Britain . |
| 18 | The practical consequence of this must be that the individual who in his personal development has not mastered his basic instinctual drives but finds instead that the state masters them for him experiences none of the narcissistic gratifications of self-mastery but all of the privations which the agencies of state control enforce on him . |
| 19 | When he talked of the hostages or the contras something of the old fire returned , together with the old emotional lines from cabinet meetings and television speeches . |
| 20 | It was highly synchronized , occurring in all major capitalist countries it about the same time . |
| 21 | The fact that Dissent appeared to flourish under toleration became a great cause for concern to those devout Anglicans who throughout the 1680s had been encouraged to believe that the only way to protect the Church and State was by a strict enforcement of the penal laws , and their anxieties were further reinforced by the sermons of the high-flying clergy . |
| 22 | The pattern repeats itself throughout the Welsh uplands and appears to be the norm in the UK uplands generally . |
| 23 | These are the Chukchis , Koryaks and Itelmens of the extreme north-east and the Kamchatka Peninsula , the Yukagirs who in the seventeenth century inhabited a very large territory between Chukotka and the lower Lena , the Ainu of southern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands , the Nivkhs of the lower Amur and Sakhalin , and the Kets of the Yenisei . |
| 24 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |
| 25 | The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment . |
| 26 | 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race . |
| 27 | The Haleiwa Theatre was a pink , art deco pleasure dome built by the sugar barons which by the sixties had become the hub of social activity , screening nightly surf movies . |
| 28 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 29 | I think he even been on the boards himself in the early days . |
| 30 | They may also deliberately maintain extra production capacity so that potential entrants can see that any attempt at entry will be matched by a sharp increase in production by existing firms , forcing price reductions which in the short run will be unprofitable for all but which may bankrupt the entrant first . |