Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 2 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 3 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 4 | But some creatures , notably the American Allosaurus , had several bones in its skull loosely joined together so that the entire skull could yield to pressures of various sorts . |
| 5 | The bus from Francistown had broken down again and the passengers disembarked , squatting in the cumbersome shade of a baobab tree . |
| 6 | Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances : |
| 7 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 8 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 9 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 10 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 11 | This last was uttered so sharply that the dog at once lay down , uttering a whimper as he rested his head on his paws , dark eyes longingly fixed on the newcomer . |
| 12 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 13 | If at any point it is bought by a non-registered person the VAT is not recoverable , but must be added on again if the vehicle is sold at some point in the future by a registered person . |
| 14 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 15 | The water from the lower source is emitted sufficiently faster than the main flow that it forms a turbulent jet . |
| 16 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | Durham 's arrival in 1992 has come so smoothly that the wonder is that the gap following Glamorgan 's 1921 elevation was so long . |
| 18 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 19 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 20 | When confronted with the pollution , G. says the manager claimed it was an accident , that a vat had tipped over accidentally and the ice cream had disappeared down a drain . |
| 21 | A 4″ pipe was built-in between this pond and the top header pool and a 2″ pipe was added just below where the capping stones would be . |
| 22 | The matured loan notes can be rolled over indefinitely until the tax liability expires . |
| 23 | A fragment from an altarpiece can not be appraised in just the same way as an independent portrait ; and a craftsman 's skill is esteemed more accurately when the materials used are rightly identified . |
| 24 | In the example given above , play B is discarded quickly only because the refutation was the first reply looked at . |
| 25 | Montague , meanwhile , who was only a party to the takeover , appears to have come off better than the man who masterminded it . |
| 26 | ( a ) Lord Roskill in Lambie said that a charge under s.15(1) would have succeeded more easily than the actual charge under s.16(1) , but the act was the same for both offences . |
| 27 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 28 | If , however , the studies are pursued more widely and the research becomes deeper , the need for ready-to-hand volumes and essays will increase geometrically . |
| 29 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
| 30 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |