Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capitalism is the penultimate social system , where private ownership of the means of production and the full use of money exchange allows owners of capital to exploit the mass of nominally ‘ free ’ people who must sell their labour to survive . |
| 2 | It is particularly commonly seen in highland New Guinea , an island where spineless forms of the sago palm , Metroxylon sagu , have been selected ; several fruit-trees are encouraged if not actively cultivated there . |
| 3 | The too simple glacio-eustatic view of a descending series of old marine terraces being associated with interglacial high sea levels needs to be guarded against in areas such as East Anglia , where differential warping of the land may well have occurred . |
| 4 | " There are some places in the Adriatic where marine life at the sea bottom has been completely wiped out " , says Civilis. * Ecologists gathered in Nice have called for the creation of an " international reserve of the western Mediterranean " , aimed in particular at protecting marine life from over-fishing , notably by the use of driftnets . |
| 5 | A general problem will be apparent in studies of , for example , hospital inpatient statistics where repeated admissions of the same individual are multiply counted . |
| 6 | Full stretch : England 's Wade Dooley towers over his opposite number to get to a lineout ball first at Landsdowne Road , where English hopes of the Five Nations title were grounded |
| 7 | The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value . |
| 8 | NHAs , like the present NSAs , will rely not on tighter legislation for protection but on voluntary agreements with landowners — where Sites of Special Scientific Interest can be contested , de-registered and exploited by , for example , mining , and where future access to the hills may well be subject to the same uncertainty . |
| 9 | Where limited bioturbation of the mat deposits is observed , burrows parallel to bedding ( and mats ) occur but vertical burrows penetrating the mats are absent . |
| 10 | This is known as a ‘ negative feedback ’ response , where additional inputs into the equation have a regulatory effect . |
| 11 | Yet again , we have seen a game where consistent breaches of the law have been committed . |
| 12 | Where standard discussions of the self talk about memory and unity , brain transplants , the rational agent acting on his beliefs and desires , or the self in its public aspect as citizen , here the self is looked at in the context of the past history of a person , unconscious or fantasy relationships with others , the importance of feelings , or the body . |
| 13 | The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia . |
| 14 | Where previous discussions about the Britishness of British films had been coloured by official concerns about national status , and cinema 's role in boosting American economic might , filmmakers increasingly focused on the possibility that good stories might be British stories . |
| 15 | So where previous versions of the package have consisted of linked applications , version four , which the company is still hopeful that it will get out by the end of June , is essentially monolithic . |
| 16 | As we shall see , this area of the south-west was the source of much of the opposition to the crown of France between 1294 and 1303 , and where traditional loyalties to the Plantagenet regime were most deeply rooted . |
| 17 | Most professionals prefer now to work in a ‘ multidisciplinary ’ team where one or more of each profession is represented and where regular meetings of the team are held to discuss individuals ' progress . |
| 18 | Thus , where substantial quantities of the same material equipment or products are discovered , archaeologists tend to assume that they must have been produced by the same people . |
| 19 | In the voluntary sector , specialist day centres have been set up , for example at Paisley by Alzheimer 's Scotland , using considerable volunteer help , with a strong emphasis on training and support for the voluntaries and good links with other relevant services , and at Craigshill , Livingston where good liaison with the local psychogeriatric service is seen as important . |
| 20 | Measurements carried out by the National Rivers Authority revealed 10 times the permitted level of 6 micrograms per litre in the brook , where waste water from the sewage works is discharged after being treated . |
| 21 | It would soon become so in parts of the northwest region of Xinjiang where long-suppressed grievances of the Uighur Muslim majority have begun to break out . ) |
| 22 | The transition from the glass to the rubber-like state is an important feature of polymer behaviour , marking as it does a region where dramatic changes in the physical properties , such as hardness and elasticity , are observed . |
| 23 | Alternatively , equilibrium occurs where planned injections into the circular flow of income equal planned withdrawals.1 In the basic Keynesian model the different sectors are viewed as undertaking different activities that are dependent on different main variables . |
| 24 | The investigation has now entered a new phase where demographic characteristics of the Iron Age population are being modelled ( albeit crudely , since the information available from the Iron Age is very sparse ) . |
| 25 | Where accurate values for the weights are available , or the weights can be reweighed , they suggest that at least one unit was in use , particularly in Kent , based on c . |
| 26 | Also on view are the 16 ‘ bins ’ , or bays , where various blends of the novel mixture , which also includes straw and other organic materials , have been prepared . |
| 27 | Reincarnation and re-creation would be crucial to The Waste Land where Buddhist ideas would have an important place and where various voices of the dead , from that of Dante to that of Mayne Reid , would play their part in a sort of literary metempsychosis , not entirely unlike that used by Joyce in Ulysses , which Eliot was reading at the time . |
| 28 | The clearest example of this is in the area of industrial protest , where alleged disorder on the picket line has been a routine justification for robust police action . |
| 29 | There are footpaths wandering away into the countryside , where wonderful views of the mountains of three countries ( Austria , Germany and Switzerland ) can be enjoyed . |
| 30 | Without any grant from central government , the preferred position is output ( i.e. where marginal benefit for the median voter is equal to marginal cost to the median voter of providing the good ) . |