Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is completely unreasonable to expect a male horse which has learnt the social behaviour of a stallion to completely change its habits , behaviour , and personality because it is castrated . |
| 2 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 3 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 4 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 5 | They thereby avoid a circularity of reasoning which has plagued the natural rate-NAIRU literature from its earliest days : if a sustained rise in the unemployment rate is not accompanied by an abatement of inflationary pressure , then this literature can admit of only one explanation — that NAIRU , a concept which has often been conflated with that of the natural unemployment rate , must itself have risen . |
| 6 | Though they can enjoy the advantages of the single market , they do run the risk of losing the inward investment which has favoured the UK so far . |
| 7 | The Secretary for Constitutional Affairs , Michael Sze , said yesterday that he hoped Sino-British talks could start soon to end a long-running row over Hong Kong 's future which has shaken the colony . |
| 8 | It might be thought that a programme which proposes to cut the federal workforce by 100,000 over the next four years had scant claim to be a drive for jobs . |
| 9 | He practises what he preaches , having spent the past two years actively involved in the East London Partnership , a programme which aims to regenerate the boroughs of Tower Hamlets , Hackney and Newham ( where Tate & Lyle has its headquarters ) . |
| 10 | The festival has a rolling programme which aims to take the event — normally attended by 120 young people — all around Scotland . |
| 11 | 1993 marks the start of an ambitious new preventative health care programme which aims to stem the spread of malaria and AIDS , and SIDT is pinning its hopes for a healthy future on the villagers , whose only option is preventative health care . |
| 12 | From a more conventional approach which encompasses land use , maps of soil erosion , and the designation of technically feasible conservation measures which can be accepted within the constraints operating upon land-users — a difficult enough task in itself — an expansion is suggested to the present programme which seems to involve the political economy of the whole world in every instance of soil erosion . |
| 13 | This is an integrated programme of research which seeks to investigate the development and implementation of multicultural/antiracist education in different Local Education Authorities and their schools . |
| 14 | Again this contrasts with other research which has examined the labour market status of older workers , but which has sampled directly or indirectly among the unemployed ( Hill et al. |
| 15 | Previous research which has considered the problem of the blocking of acute beds by inappropriately located patients have related staff views to a length of stay for four weeks ( or more ) ( Coid and Crome 1986 ) . |
| 16 | PSD is funded by Bolton & Bury Technical College , acting as the regional office for TEED , the Training & Enterprise Education Department which has succeeded the erstwhile Manpower Services Commission . |
| 17 | PSD is funded by Bolton & Bury Technical College , acting as the regional office for TEED , the Training & Enterprise Education Department which has succeeded the erstwhile Manpower Services Commission . |
| 18 | The removal of the whitewash which has covered the paintings since the Civil War is being undertaken by English Heritage and the Courtauld Institute 's Conservation Department . |
| 19 | Find the torque which tends to align the rotor in the arrangement shown in Fig. 4.20 with 0 = 45° and 135° , ( i ) when the rotor carries no current , and ( ii ) when it carries a direct current of 2 A. The rotor inductance is 1 H and the stator inductance has maximum and minimum values 1 H and 0.2 H. Assume that periodic inductances vary in a sinusoidal manner and that the coils are perfectly coupled when they are in line . |
| 20 | If the rotor is slightly displaced from the step position a force is developed between the stator and rotor teeth ( Harris et al. , 1977 ) giving a torque which tends to return the rotor to the step position ; a rotor displacement in the negative direction produces a positive torque and a positive displacement results in a negative torque . |
| 21 | I would like to say I 'm deeply grateful to councillor Elaine who wrote a wonderful letter to the director of transportation which has formed the basis of my speech . |
| 22 | For example , in the first case , it is the study which aims to isolate the issue ( and so " study " should agree with the verb ) , and not the advertisements which aim to isolate the issue . |
| 23 | There has not been a rigorous research study which attempts to relate the cluster of managerial viewpoints concerning strategic uses of information resources and information technology to the information services infrastructure of organisations . |
| 24 | No other party of the right operating within a mass electoral system has equalled this achievement , and in recent years the only institution which has matched the Conservatives in terms of the monotonous regularity of their success is Liverpool Football Club . |
| 25 | Ford has blamed the price increases on the devaluation of the pound which has increased the cost of imported parts . |
| 26 | The state is then a complex ‘ institutional ensemble which functions to organise the hegemony within the power bloc of the dominant class by mobilising the active consent of the dominated . |
| 27 | Not the overt power of armies and governments , but the more subtle powers encoded in the social order of modernism which has positioned the experiences of being female , male , black and white , an artist , reader , writer , from First or Third World , as having an immovable and constitutive character . |
| 28 | The police , of course , can never really be geared easily to incorporate structural challenge to their existing concepts of order and control , for they are set up to maintain the symbols and practice which has sustained the status quo . |
| 29 | But in this case , there is a body of professional practice which aims to reduce the subjectivity involved and the basic information used is systematically produced , with a minimum possibility for editing : come what may an operating statement , a balance sheet and a cash flow statement will be published . |
| 30 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |