Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [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 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | This may not strike some of you as unusual but in my area silver coins rarely come from the ground in their natural colour ; they are usually black or slightly grey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Trade union horizons rarely rise above the economistic , and fail to address the political and cultural aspects of the crisis that working class people are living through . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Are any weatherproof switches properly protected from the elements ? |
| 13 | Environmental groups successfully appealed against the issue of the general permit , and in July 1987 , won an injunction which cut short the salmon season for the drift-net fleet . |
| 14 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | Notice that the patterns rarely fall on the downbeat . |
| 19 | The new regime 's most determined opponents eventually emerged as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq , led by Mas'ud Rajavi who established a base in Paris for some years and was reported in 1986 to have made his way to Baghdad . |
| 20 | There is also a rough correlation between the groups most hit by the austerity measures and those in the vanguard of the strikes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 27 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 28 | This model has much in common with the dichotomy between ‘ post-material ’ versus ‘ traditional ’ attitudes much debated on the Continent ( van de Kaa 1987 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |