Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 2 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 3 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 4 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 5 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 6 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 7 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 8 | Are any weatherproof switches properly protected from the elements ? |
| 9 | The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis , the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan 's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action , even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement . |
| 10 | In his speech on Sept. 25 , United States President Bush welcomed the creation of a Gulf Crisis Financial Co-ordination Committee [ see below ] charged with providing emergency relief to front-line states most affected by the crisis . |
| 11 | Nicholas pretended that Hungarian forces were being used in the Polish interest : " both Austrians and Russians skilfully manoeuvred with the assertion that the Hungarian Revolution was not a Hungarian national movement , but a Polish plot against the Russian State " . |
| 12 | There is also a rough correlation between the groups most hit by the austerity measures and those in the vanguard of the strikes . |
| 13 | Even so , as in the first round , he retained considerable support in the rural areas and among social groups most threatened by the economic changes ( such as farmers and miners ) and disaffected young people . |
| 14 | In the 1992 election campaign , Jagan performed a political volte face , promising to continue with the free market policies latterly pursued by the PNC government , including the privatization of state enterprises , in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 15 | Part II of the Act extends and modernises the system of controls on processions and meetings hitherto found in the Public Order Act 1936 and miscellaneous pieces of local legislation . |
| 16 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 17 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 18 | This model has much in common with the dichotomy between ‘ post-material ’ versus ‘ traditional ’ attitudes much debated on the Continent ( van de Kaa 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 21 | Two religious groups swiftly manoeuvred to the front of the pack : the Roman Catholic church , led by Cardinal John O'Connor , and the Christian Coalition , a group of fundamentalists loyal to Pat Robertson . |
| 22 | It will offer the spine of News and Current Affairs programmes so appreciated by the Radio 4 audience : Today , The World At One , PM , the 6 O'Clock News and The World Tonight will be there , on both networks . |
| 23 | Thus , our analysis is based on 386 incident cases all diagnosed after the introduction of treatment . |
| 24 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 25 | Roads much traversed in the Civil War or in the invasion of Poland , like those of Belorussia , deteriorated from use by military vehicles . |
| 26 | Generally , works by Renoir , Chagall , Sisley and Pissarro artists hardest hit by the Japanese pull-out stabilised at pre-boom prices , Renoir 's ‘ Yvonne et Jean ’ from the Boston estate sold to an anonymous collector at $2.2 million ( £1.2 million ; est. $2–2.5 million ) . |
| 27 | 1985 ) that societies living in areas where resources are rare or absent may compensate by the production of pottery for exchange with neighbouring groups better endowed with the necessary resources . |
| 28 | Therefore we can assume that there are 3 minor pentatonic scales all found in the key of G Major : ie. A , B and E minor pentatonics . |
| 29 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 30 | In Wiltshire , after the declaration of the Forest bounds at the Salisbury Forest Eyre in 1330 , scattered areas of demesne lands and woods alone remained in the forest : Savernake was reduced from an estimated ninety-eight square miles to a mere thirteen , and by 1331 the forest of Chute in that county had been ‘ almost disafforested ’ . |