Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [det] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performance on any task therefore , from playing tennis , to taking exams , to going to work , will be impaired if anxiety is too high or too low , but somewhere between these lies the ideal degree of anxiety for producing our best performance . |
| 2 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 3 | But then , I was ready ter do all o' those fings the day I said I 'd marry yer . |
| 4 | For my part , I conclude that the life prisoner should be informed of the judge 's advice on tariff , together with any comments the judges , or either of them , may have made about the responsibility of the prisoner for the crime compared with that of any co-defendant tried with him . |
| 5 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |
| 6 | Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car . |
| 7 | You are a sign well able to juggle several balls at once so in many ways the volatile planetary climate could suit you down to the ground . |
| 8 | So in some areas the Commission has only issued a recommendation or communication , which are merely persuasive and have no legal effect , such as in the area of social protection , child care , minimum income and persons living in frontier regions . |
| 9 | There 's a lot of rice that 's grown so in some areas the people can actually make a good living for themselves . |
| 10 | However , you may see that I worked over many lines before the ink had been allowed to dry , so in some places the black ink has become fused with the watercolour . |
| 11 | When they come together in these workshops the sense of greater self-esteem is more important than the extra few pence they earn . |
| 12 | Thus for both groups the major legislative changes of the period — the Obscene Publications Act , the Sexual Offences Act , the Street Offences Act , the Abortion Act , the Theatres Act — are significant for their ‘ permissive ’ or ‘ liberalising ’ character . |
| 13 | Nevertheless in most cases the right of possession and the right to the proceeds of the sale of your goods can only be helpful . |
| 14 | Many low-income LDCs exist on a slim margin between subsistence and disaster , and already in many cases the fragile natural environment has been damaged by over-grazing and over-cultivation associated with population growth . |
| 15 | Moreover in many areas the assault upon the nobility was led by middle peasants whose family farms were anything but capitalist . |
| 16 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 17 | There is always in such cases the possibility that the contributions would be reduced or cease on marriage . |
| 18 | Or in 1982 the Navy would fight the Falklands , the very spot where in 1914 it won a spectacular victory and uncannily on both occasions the flagship was called Invincible . |
| 19 | Only valence shell MOs that are occupied by at least one electron can be studied by photoelectron spectroscopy ( PES ) , but for these we can deduce the binding energy and also in some cases the bonding or anti-bonding character of the orbital . |
| 20 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 21 | Clearly in some cases the parents expect to lavish care upon a poor , neglected child who will respond with gratitude and affection . |
| 22 | Of these , control of the landscape is perhaps the most important , and hence at all times the administration or ordered management of the land was carried out from certain places , which may have been chiefs ' residences , tribal capitals , kingly , lordly , or religious establishments . |
| 23 | Ironically in many respects the French intervention paved the way for the success of the liberals in Spain . |
| 24 | However , even with such limitations the search space was too large to search exhaustively . |
| 25 | Even with such constraints the systems still generated too many partial solutions and had to devise scoring methods and control strategies to prune the search space further . |
| 26 | Even with such adjustments the proportion may vary between the two approaches if local authority expenditure contains a different proportion of taxes than the GNP as a whole . |
| 27 | If one considers that a practical vocabulary size will contain thousands of words then even with this assumptions the number of estimates required can become astronomical ( e.g. if L=5000 , and i=3 , it is necessary to estimate values for 1.25*1011 states ) . |
| 28 | Yet even in such contexts the semantic difference between names and descriptions is not entirely obliterated , although one can hardly talk here of a rigidity of reference across " all possible worlds " . |
| 29 | But even in these cases the success is likely to be shortlived if it is not backed by bilingual contacts and exchanges in the community at large . |
| 30 | Yet even in these cases the situation could be an awkward one : senior partners needed both credibility and backing from the head ; they also needed tact and skill in the development enterprise , and such attributes are not an automatic concomitant of experience ; and client teachers needed to be able to accept that their practice needed such attention . |