Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the various types of mineral extraction , the exploitation of river gravels tends to be the most devastating because in the past river gravels have provided the most attractive environments for settlement , offering fertile soils and an abundant water supply . |
| 2 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 3 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 4 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 5 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 6 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |
| 7 | This combination of light industry and agriculture is probably typical of the suburbs where pressure on land was less acute than in the centre . |
| 8 | So we 're very committed to O D B C. It is one standard which we 're following , it is an alternative A P I for the desktop which is obviously strong because of the Microsoft relationship , erm but we will also foth follow other standards in terms of A P Is for the desktop as well . |
| 9 | In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’ |
| 10 | Revisionist work in this area is less advanced than on the events of 1917 itself , but it has begun to unravel the process which led to the rapid breakdown of the broad popular alliance of October , the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik party , and the transformation in the nature of its power . |
| 11 | At the same time , education , which had always in fact been a political matter , if only because of the vast sums of public money spent on it , became increasingly and more obviously political because of the politicization of local government . |
| 12 | Time and time again it is made clear that many of Dan 's great exploits are only possible because of the application of science . |
| 13 | Indeed , putting together such a wide reaching programme so rapidly was only possible because of the high degree of inter-agency co-operation and commitment by local politicians , officers and professionals . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that the arrival of mass education in Britain in the late nineteenth century was only possible because of the new use of esparto grass in machine-made paper , enabling mass production . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But life in the Court of Appeal and , even more , in the House of Lords is not so strenuous as in the High Court ( or below ) , personal prestige and status are higher among the fewer , with a life peerage at the top . |
| 17 | His face was non-committal , and Kate felt suddenly shy because of the wave of lust that swept over her as she looked back at his unshaven cheeks . |
| 18 | These conditions , difficult to sustain , led occasionally to a great deal of embarrassment , mixed always with a compensationary dose of fun and good humour , and sometimes followed by the communication of useful information which was none the less pleasant because of the piquancy incident to a little merriment and unexpected light of knowledge . ’ |
| 19 | Lawrence 's masquerade of adjustment involves a projection of his own fears , anxieties , and neurosis which , in the Swift/Celia case , is especially revealing because in the same breath he consciously repudiates the scapegoating process which partly comprises that projection ( pp. 303 — 4 ) . |
| 20 | The middle course valleys are broader and the valley sides are less steep than in the upper course . |
| 21 | Public opinion , in an age which increasingly liked to think itself morally superior to its predecessors , was sometimes less willing than in the past to tolerate activities of this kind . |
| 22 | It is not entirely clear whether in the latter case the defendant is to be regarded as reckless or not . |
| 23 | Starting at Easter , the bookings would continue more or less uninterrupted until after the autumn half-term at the end of October . |
| 24 | The basic pyramidal or shield-like form of the stomach still recalls tribal sculpture , but the deformation of the figure is at once more geometrical and less extreme than in most of the Cézannesque paintings and less rigid than in the Negroid paintings ; forms are faceted or subdivided in a more elaborate fashion than hitherto , so that one 's eye passes freely from one sculptural element to another . |
| 25 | As expected , there were strong regional voting patterns , although these appeared a little less rigid than in the 1988 election . |
| 26 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 27 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 28 | One group may dominate large areas of cultural production , while another , through lack of access to cultural form , may be less clear as to the nature of its own interests . |
| 29 | Gas supplies are also very much a political football in view of the high level of USSR supply but here the situation is less unstable because of the length of supply contracts involved . |
| 30 | Not so high because of the glass but because it 's got to have double folding shutters . |