Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 2 | And I would n't mind getting my hands on one of those typewriters that does all the work for you . |
| 3 | What is it about kitchens at parties that brings out the homing pigeon in everybody ? |
| 4 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 5 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 6 | It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building . |
| 7 | If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques . |
| 8 | He said who would want a battered old thing with broken springs and stains down the back ? |
| 9 | Then the load of stones bounces and trundles down the channel , thus eroding it deeper . |
| 10 | That is , they think it 's knitted in the same yarns and feels just the same as single -bed Fair Isle . |
| 11 | Believe me it is the sense of double standards , and this alone , which infuriates the Pakistanis and brings out the bad feelings . |
| 12 | The guide spells out their rights , describes the type of help to expect in school , explains the process of issuing statements of special needs and sets out the appeals procedure for dissatisfied parents . |
| 13 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 14 | Chapter 8 examines the selection , acquisition and organization of computer software in school libraries and shows how the traditional working together by school librarians and teachers can be harnessed to these new sources of information and learning . |
| 15 | This changes , subtly , the colours and tones down the most garish of shades . |
| 16 | My bandsaw competes with the radial-arm for clatters and bangs so the big router won with a large chamfer bit . |
| 17 | This point once again reinforces the assumption of the ‘ naturalness ’ of deviant motivations that underpins both the classical and the postclassical perspectives . |
| 18 | Where land is bought at auction it is essential that the purchaser or his solicitor undertakes the necessary searches and reads carefully the smallprint in the brochure . |
| 19 | A semantic net may be formally represented as a directed , labeled graph with nodes and links where The predicate is true , if and only if and are connected by a path of labels . |
| 20 | Therefore it is true to say that , when a person stiffens the neck muscles and pulls back the head , not only is the body 's natural coordination being obstructed but it is also being prevented from returning to its natural state of ease and equilibrium . |
| 21 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 22 | She considers the strengths and weaknesses of both positions and shows how the epistemological and political questions are intertwined with each other . |
| 23 | This is a market for the sale and repurchase of government bonds and serves much the same function as the lending of stock in the UK . |
| 24 | When we get up , the weight of our bodies compresses these discs and squeezes out the extra fluid . |
| 25 | The average rank of the characters that makes up the candidate word is determined . |
| 26 | ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter . |
| 27 | Each rig crew comprises a driver , Who drives the vehicle on land , a pilot , Who operates it when it becomes a ‘ boat ’ on the water , and the youngest member , a crewman , who operates the hydraulic ramp controls and does all the deck jobs . |
| 28 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 29 | Certainly , in this book , we shall need to include participants ' beliefs about most of the above parameters , including the place of the current utterance within the sequence of utterances that makes up the discourse . |
| 30 | X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy can detect these pigments and paints where the ‘ holy eye ’ is no longer able to do so . |