Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the poem stands apart from the attitudes most commonly expressed in her work , and , given its obscurity , it is necessary to be cautious with respect to its specific meaning . |
| 2 | However , the guide-lines normally only provide a starting-point , which the sentencer is free to depart from if this is regarded as appropriate , and provided reasons are given for doing so . |
| 3 | While the institutions most usually approached for funding here ( The Arts Council , RTE , Commercial business ) are n't clamouring to pour money into film , both Giannaris and Gibbons feel that with persistence and imagination ( albeit in voluminous quantities ! ) the now microscopic organism may eventually become multi-cellular . |
| 4 | l he vehicles entered the western end of this northern bay , and the coach body was lifted off its bogies and placed on moving carriers , the wheels removed from the bogies , the bogies then also placed on carriers parallel with its body and moved alongside it through the shop at the same pace , that of one vehicle every forty minutes . |
| 5 | It is because the shareholders no longer control the management of a large public company and the product market is no longer perfectly competitive that the management are free to use their discretion for these socially worthwhile ends . |
| 6 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 7 | The natural-entity theory thus legitimated the fact that in the large public company , as we shall see , the shareholders no longer controlled corporate management , so that control as well as management came to be separated from ownership . |
| 8 | There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations . |
| 9 | ‘ The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished . |
| 10 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 11 | All you 're doing is carrying out a sentence that the courts no longer have the power to impose . |
| 12 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 13 | In these early days the Germans very much followed the Dutch leads ; indeed the regulations introduced in 1980 for restraining traffic in residential roads were a straight translation of those adopted in the Netherlands ' Woonerven . |
| 14 | A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use . |
| 15 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 16 | But the illustrations here clearly illustrate the stages involved for most upvc windows . |
| 17 | I would have thought the Russians just about got ahead on a points average with that one . ’ |
| 18 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 19 | The Times also occasionally sent journalists abroad to get special stories . |
| 20 | One of the cases also incidentally raises the question of whether , and to what extent , it may be desirable to have regard to what was said in Parliament at the time when the legislation was under discussion . |
| 21 | The cases so far decided do not exhaust the possible factual permutations which give the courts such difficulty in distinguishing between leases and licences . |
| 22 | In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer . |
| 23 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |
| 24 | Genetic studies have established that the mutations so far characterized belong to probably four different complementation groups and that some of them are recessive ( 8–15 ) . |
| 25 | Additionally , although the Rules no longer require a written agreement , there are certain instances where the Rules require that disclosures must be made to the customer or the customer must consent to the firm acting in a particular way . |
| 26 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 27 | Among them was Roger Perks , head teacher of Taverstock School in Birmingham , one of the authorities most strongly opposed to opting out . |
| 28 | While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has . |
| 29 | did the Cro-Magnons indeed deliberately wipe out the Neanderthals ? |
| 30 | The states most severely affected have been Mozambique , Angola and Namibia , but even countries not centrally involved in the fighting — Zambia , Zimbabwe and the two states most immediately dependent on South Africa , Botswana and Lesotho — have felt its effects . |