Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |
| 2 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 3 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 4 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 5 | A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture . |
| 6 | For example , Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow . |
| 7 | A coach will then help each student select those methods which match the dynamic performance of the kayak in use and which are most appropriate to the personal aims and values of the trainee . |
| 8 | When this is the case methods which give the entire distribution rather than some of the averages referred to above must be used . |
| 9 | He has himself , let us say , spent a couple of disillusioning years in Bali , so that he fully understands the considerations which tempt the young man , but has the advantage of fuller information . |
| 10 | Is this asymmetric behaviour an intrinsic property of the stem cell , or are there environmental signals which control the different pathways of the daughter cells ? |
| 11 | Cancer cells become tumorigenic as a result of multiple independent steps which subvert the normal growth control mechanisms described earlier . |
| 12 | In general the law changes look like long overdue positive steps which strike the delicate balance of encouraging attacking enterprise while also punishing sides intent on killing the ball in defence . |
| 13 | These are the groups and organizations which express the vast diversity of interests within society . |
| 14 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 15 | These are the coarse outer hairs which overlie the thick insulating underfur . |
| 16 | In addition , Ferrari has also shown that the shock waves which accompany the impulsive waves only affect the rate at which the Weyl scalars diverge on the singularity . |
| 17 | At Gwynedd Education Committee , Coun Jill Knight called for funding for the units which serve the special needs of young children , leading to their integration into mainstream schooling . |
| 18 | In the second year , students take a range of units which provide the necessary framework for philosophical activity — in the epistemological and metaphysical considerations of the rationalist and empiricist traditions , in logic and in traditions of ethical thought . |
| 19 | In the second year , students choose from a range of units which provide the necessary framework for philosophical activity — in the epistemological and metaphysical considerations of the rationalist and empiricist traditions , in logic and in traditions of ethical thought . |
| 20 | We found a few more smaller parties near the Benelips and Filla , two small grass-topped islets which form the south-western extremity of Out Skerries . |
| 21 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 22 | Let us consider some of the chief influences which determine the official curriculum schools follow and assess changes which have taken place and trends which may be emerging . |
| 23 | Such negative stereotypes are often reinforced by pervasive media images which portray the young as capable and glamorous . |
| 24 | There are flourishing schools which reflect the growing affluence and improved living conditions of a portion of the population , but there are other schools which are little more than shells , with few materials and facilities . |
| 25 | The characters in the drama , the social roles , are more or less fixed , as are their mutual relationships which constitute the dramatic plot . |
| 26 | Likewise it is only a few exceptional relationships which have the short-term characteristic of a money purchase in the market . |
| 27 | Because the formal parameters which receive the passed parameters are local , all procedures and functions can be reentrant . |
| 28 | The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs . |
| 29 | He possessed in an extraordinary degree the gift of conciliation and could say the happy words which quell the rising storm ’ , wrote one of them . |
| 30 | In the first stage of this modified word-parsing strategy , only those matching words which are greater than two phonemes in length are stored on the word lattice ; all other one and two phoneme words which match the phonemic input are stored in a temporary buffer . |