Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 2 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 3 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 4 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 5 | Similarly , 4 per cent of Sun readers spent a heroic two hours or more reading the Sun every day , according to a 1975 study for the Press Commission . |
| 6 | Unable to visualize plans or even to judge the success of a design from a scale model , Ceauşescu demanded larger and larger mock-ups . |
| 7 | The south-facing terrace is perfect for enjoying early morning coffee , evening cocktails or just admiring the scenery . |
| 8 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 9 | These by-passed local government and allowed developers who intended to regenerate areas of 20 acres or more to approach the Department of the Environment directly . |
| 10 | Relationships are at their most transformative stage , and after the 14th you should be reaping the harvest of love 's labours or indeed digesting the results of your efforts in other directions . |
| 11 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
| 12 | Computers follow the same strategy that General Grant followed against the South : do nothing fancy , stay out of trouble , take no risks and just grind the opponent bit by bit , piece by piece and square by square , into the dust . |
| 13 | However , Adams and Yellen ( 1976 ) have shown that commodity bundling can be a form of price discrimination , which serves to sort consumers into groups with different demand characteristics and thereby to extend the market . |
| 14 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 15 | She felt that their use ‘ would elongate the dancers ' silhouettes and thus resemble the figures of Byzantine Saints ’ . |
| 16 | Examples of its use include checking if gaps in the cosmid map are actually covered by YAC or P1 probes , checking for consistent ordering of different types of probes and even to interpret the hybridisation results of multiple-copy probes . |
| 17 | Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order . |
| 18 | Using skilled tutors , such as Mary Adams from Cambridge , who shared in the group-listening sessions and then extended the broadcast themes through discussion and supplementary material , the BBC programmes at Harrold and Goldington led directly to longer courses . |
| 19 | Praising the work of non-governmental organizations and implicitly criticizing the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) and other UN agencies , he pointed out that together private and UN agencies were at present providing only a quarter of the minimum monthly food needs . |
| 20 | The ITGWU and the Workers ' Party organized a march of trade union members to picket the County Offices and then crowd the public gallery to watch the meeting , while dockers supporting the protest struck for a day , bringing work in the port to a halt and tying up seven ships . |
| 21 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 22 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 23 | Develop a formal plan : set objectives and policies in relation to the achievement of organisational goals and thereby enable the effective and efficient deployment of resources . |
| 24 | After talks with police in Dundee , STUC general secretary Campbell Christie appealed for pickets to obey union guidelines and not to break the law or block the road . |
| 25 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 26 | By making copies of prehistoric stone implements and then using the copies to cut , scrape and chop different materials ( such as growing crops , bones and hides ) , the patterns of wear formed by these processes can be matched to wear patterns on the original artefacts . |
| 27 | The judges sifted through over 8,000 entries and finally picked the name ‘ Spring Ovation ’ as the winner . |
| 28 | The microcontroller sequentially generates the eight channel output pulses and then raises the CTS ( Clear to Send ) line high for 4.2mS during which time , data can be sent from the host computer . |
| 29 | It is the notion of an artist willing to attempt to maintain traditional ties and yet acknowledging the fact that he can not relax in the security of the past , that art must change . |
| 30 | The smiths formed very close groups based on strong family ties and carefully retained the secret of their craft , including the mystic rituals and the name of their gods . |