Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , where the tenant is likely to give discounts to certain customers ( eg those who pay by credit card , or employees ) , or where he is likely to have sales or special offers , his advisers should attempt to ensure that it is the amount he receives rather than the full retail price which is to be included in the calculation of turnover . |
| 2 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 3 | The sun goes down , the racing goes on and the keenest fans keep watching . |
| 4 | In a private firm , it may be argued , the problem of executing policy involves only that the individual concerned takes the actions that maximize ( expected ) profits . |
| 5 | We assume that the orbital plane has so that the metric eqn ( 4.10 ) becomes where , M is the Sun 's mass , and r is the distance of Mercury from the Sun . |
| 6 | Chidzero announced some minor income tax concessions , raising the basic abatement and adjusting tax bands so that the top rate of 60 per cent would apply at Z$40,000 instead of Z$33,000 . |
| 7 | In the opening of a door it matters not if the strong hand of a weight lifter turns the knob or the delicate hand of a lady , the effect is the same . |
| 8 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 9 | He concludes plausibly that the best account will probably incorporate several different suggestions about the origin of words in different ‘ lexical domains ’ . |
| 10 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 11 | Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount . |
| 12 | Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties . |
| 13 | Mr Vecchiotti of Otis says bluntly that the main reason his company chose to move to Penang , not Kuala Lumpur , is that Penang is ‘ more Chinese ’ . |
| 14 | Q What happens now that the White Paper is published ? |
| 15 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 16 | Shaw says simply that the two sides have an ‘ excellent ’ deal . |
| 17 | We can see that in empty space–time Einstein 's equation simplifies to and that vanishes there if the cosmological constant is zero . |
| 18 | He says there that the intrinsic value , ( such as the goodness or badness ) of an object is peculiar in that ( a ) it depend , on the intrinsic nature of the object , while ( b ) it is not one of the object 's intrinsic properties . |
| 19 | It also needs to be recognized that in some authorities — particularly small district councils where there are fewer personnel , resources and programmes — much co-ordinating work occurs informally and the elaborate corporate structures advocated by Bains are perhaps less appropriate . |
| 20 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 21 | In Blackpool , evidence mounts daily that the Conservative Party has rejected Thatcherism . |
| 22 | It doubles the winch reels so that the continuous loop is wound in and out simultaneously , and the camera held firm at any altitude . |
| 23 | But a question mark still hangs over when the remaining 550 pupils can return . |
| 24 | If the addition is slow , χ 1 increases gradually until the critical value for large molecules is reached . |
| 25 | Soft cellulite : This shows up as the classic ‘ orange peel ’ dimples on stomach and thighs . |
| 26 | The model of mental functioning we have been elaborating here shows clearly that the evolutionary direction in higher organisms has been particularly focused in the development of cognition . |
| 27 | The evidence shows clearly that the single most significant cause of decline in upland bird species in the UK as a whole is the removal of moorland habitat . |
| 28 | Because 30 does not divide by 20 one sees immediately that the second equation has no solution for X . |
| 29 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 30 | The road ends here and the rough fell sheep roam the Howgills . |