Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , interest in leisure activities and hobbies tends to decline after the age of 35 . |
| 2 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 3 | One set of aspirations has to do with the development of new forms of service for clients and their carers or families ; another with the direct provision of services . |
| 4 | The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " . |
| 5 | In suburbia , however , the scourge of the skips tends to descend on the public highway in spring and summer . |
| 6 | The discontent voiced by reviewers appears to focus on the implausibility of the novel 's plot and on the incongruity of the unsettling elements in it . |
| 7 | This will go on indefinitely , unless and until one of the repaired or replaced goods manages to last for the whole of the period . |
| 8 | Clustering RS/6000 machines continues to hover near the top of IBM 's agenda — if you can really call two machines a cluster . |
| 9 | As Berger and Luckmann ( 1967 ) have described the sense of facticity in ideological thought , ‘ the world of institutions appears to merge with the world of nature ’ ( p. 108 ) . |
| 10 | The primary significance of stating the duty in these terms has to do with the form of caring or treatment the doctor provides . |
| 11 | My dressing room is tiny — six feet square — and Cats has to sit on the floor of the Green Room propped against my open door , writing furiously while coping with the pranks of the dwarfs . |
| 12 | Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us . |
| 13 | Increasing support for Hamas in the " occupied territories " , and especially in its heartlands in the squalid refugee camps of the Gaza Strip , also posed a serious threat to the mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) which had opposed Hamas demands to withdraw from the peace talks and embrace its more militant approach . |
| 14 | Conversation , comparing what happens today with earlier times helps to focus on the present . |
| 15 | ACE/AGIT recommend that one of the governors undertakes to look after the interests of the children with special educational needs . |
| 16 | The distinction between public law and private law interests seems to rest on the assumption that the latter are in some way more important and more worthy of protection than the former . |
| 17 | One set of issues has to do with the way in which science and technology so drastically alter previous patterns of life that they erode and undermine the social , ethical and spiritual values which had been encapsulated and preserved in them . |
| 18 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 19 | The texture as well as the bulk of fibre-rich foods helps to put on the brakes . |
| 20 | These major transformations can not be mapped onto the model of a continuous history , for its stress on putative anticipations fails to account for the way in which the whole form of knowledge can be transformed and a new understanding created . |
| 21 | The motivation for taking personal initiatives has to come from the employees themselves . |
| 22 | Much the same range of locations seems to prevail for the more romanized forms of housing . |
| 23 | The explanation of these apparent omissions seems to lie in the forty years that separate the story , which extends to include the first Reform Bill in 1832 , from the date of its publication shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill in 1861 . |
| 24 | It may encourage , though , the arbitrary nature of decision making so that , for example , the receipt of benefits comes to depend on the attitude of the official and how he interacts with the claimant . |
| 25 | If , however , one of the joint proprietors refuses to join in the application to register a restriction , the party giving the notice should apply to HM Land Registry for a restriction to be entered on the basis of his application alone ( see Key and Elphinstone 's Precedents in Conveyancing , 15th edn , Sweet and Maxwell , 1954 , vol 3 , p264 ) again using Form 75 . |