Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the Scandinavian antipathy for power-hungry , dominant task leaders in groups fits poorly with the German tolerance of dominant power-holders as a means of getting things done . |
| 2 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 3 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 4 | Although her poetry often speaks of ill health and many times looks forward to the poet 's early death , she died of measles , a sudden illness which she was too weak to withstand . |
| 5 | The value of winter green manures lies partly in the covering they provide to the soil during the wet months of the year . |
| 6 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 7 | The explanation for the lacklustre increase of 260% since 1975 for one of the century 's greatest artists lies also in the variable quality and variety of styles . |
| 8 | The value of projects lies less in the subject matter than in the fact that topics are chosen and worked on by the pupils themselves . |
| 9 | As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer . |
| 10 | It must follow , therefore , that the way man keeps animals contributes significantly to the environment and has a consequential effect on wild flora and fauna . |
| 11 | A fine flight of stone steps leads up to the gallery . |
| 12 | A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end . |
| 13 | This might be called ‘ triangular ’ bargaining , i.e. negotiations in which each of three parties deals bilaterally with the other two . |
| 14 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 15 | The principle of different spatial patterning accounting for the differences in animals applies right across the vertebrates . |
| 16 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |
| 17 | Courtaulds chief executive Sipko Huismans speaks frankly about the year ahead . |
| 18 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 19 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 20 | Money in the Royal Life and Hafnia funds rolls up inside the bonds tax free , because they are offshore . |
| 21 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 22 | Thus significant fractionation of O isotopes occurs only at the surface of the Earth . |
| 23 | The implementation of such policies depends critically on the refereeing of research proposals and the operation of grant-awarding committees . |
| 24 | The understanding of the dynamics of turbulence in shear flows depends primarily on the measurement and interpretation of the parameters introduced in Chapter 19 . |
| 25 | Certainly , in St Ann 's , the condition of the houses bears immediately on the lives of the people . |
| 26 | His application of the variation principle to plainsong , Lutheran hymns , and Huguenot psalms goes far beyond the ‘ organ hymns ’ and versets of earlier generations , and differs from his secular variations in that the basic melody is generally preserved intact as cantus firmus in one part or another throughout . |
| 27 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 28 | The main conclusion which this section and the preceding one allow is that the true importance of intention in trusts lies not in the internal interpretation of the meaning or the details of a bequest , but in construction , in the ability to construe a trust on the basis of the testator 's intention , and to use facts rather than words to do so . |
| 29 | In contrast , the expression level observed with the Short construct mice deviates markedly from the expected ratio and position effects are present above five copies/genome . |
| 30 | The difference between these two senses lies simply in the fact that loosening the nexus allows the main clause to be interpreted more as a consequence of the actualization of the contingent event expressed by the infinitive than as a judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence . |