Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mechanism for the latter possibility is suggested by the observation that NMDA receptor function can be increased by the activation of PKC . |
| 2 | In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical . |
| 3 | Beed 's preference for the latter alternative is , however , misplaced , since as Herman explains , it involves ‘ a confusion between who controls and how control is obtained and maintained ’ . |
| 4 | For the latter cycle was always directly associated with the moon , whereas the Hebrew week was not but was continued from month to month and year to year regardless of the moon . |
| 5 | The journey by train from Cambridge to Lincoln was tedious , involving several changes , and on arrival I was met by the usual RAF truck for the half hour 's run into Binbrook village and from there up the steep hill to the RAF Station on its plateau above the low lying plains . |
| 6 | Total expenses for the half year were £9.22m , up from £5.84m in the previous year . |
| 7 | In 1695 and 1708 Parliament , stung to action by the clamours of the London merchants , passed legislation which compelled the Admiralty to allocate specified numbers of ships to the task of protecting commerce ; an unsuccessful Bill for the same purpose was introduced in 1742 . |
| 8 | If paying lower wages for the same work is not discrimination , then what is ? |
| 9 | Nine healthy , well nourished ( mean weight for height 89% of the NCHS median value ) , age matched children ( age 6–19 m ) for the same location were included as controls . |
| 10 | This is an alternative to the knowledge test and for the same reason is therefore irrelevant . |
| 11 | There must have been a good reason for the same method was also in use at other coach works . |
| 12 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 13 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 14 | Sotheby 's figures for the same period were close to Christie 's but registered a drop in dollar terms on last year 's autumn period : worldwide auction sales for 1992 of $1.125 billion ( £674 million ) with September to December sales at $495.4 million ( £318 million ) . |
| 15 | A further two female family members , both siblings from the 3rd generation , who required surgery for the same condition are now reported . |
| 16 | Paul again when he 's writing to Romans in chapter ten verse twelve and thirteen , he says , there is no distinction between Jew and Greek , for the same Lord is over all . |
| 17 | Different files for the same client are given linked numbers . |
| 18 | Premium income during the half year was up nearly 50% reflecting GA 's involvement in a number of new major accounts . |
| 19 | The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts . |
| 20 | As the same gene is thought to control softening in other fruits such as peaches , there are wide implications for the future quality and marketing of fruit . |
| 21 | As the same melody is used more than once for different words , no kind of ‘ word painting ’ can take place , for the notes which may be used for joy in one verse may be needed for melancholy in another . |
| 22 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
| 23 | Er no they 're all about the same depth are n't they ? |
| 24 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 25 | This has resulted in different messages about the same issue being given to clients of the health services , e.g. ORS : in Kangwane Banstustan they teach mothers to use one litre of water , six teaspoons of sugar and one teaspoon of salt to prepare the Oral Rehydration Solution ( ORS ) whilst their neighbours , Gazankulu and Lebowa have different methods . |
| 26 | About the same number are killed at home . |
| 27 | Other similar deposits of about the same age are said to occur at Nusplingen ill the Swabian Jura , at Talbrager in New South Wales and in the central Congo . |
| 28 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | The kinetic energy lost by a body of mass m rising through the same distance is remarkably similar : . |
| 30 | Whether local government would be allowed to go through the same process is difficult to say . |