Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 3 | The outdoor sand pit may include many of the activities already described and is dealt with more fully in chapter 9 Outdoor Activities . |
| 4 | First , it shares characteristics which are common to many of the activities typically undertaken by women , especially on an unpaid basis — routine , repetitive tasks which have few circumscribed limits of time or obligation . |
| 5 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 6 | This gave the backs quality possession and the defence eventually cracked . |
| 7 | He added that the defence also needed more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after fresh evidence came to light last week . |
| 8 | Worst of all the defence totally lost concentration after about eighty five minutes gone . |
| 9 | Accompanying this shift is the introduction of a uniform business rate whose level is to be centrally determined , with the income also collected centrally and then redistributed in the form of government grant according to a centrally determined formula . |
| 10 | The amount used to restore the income account is , however , no longer the same item as the income originally borrowed . |
| 11 | It ‘ does not offer any one way to the truth but helps people find the disciplines most suited to them ’ . |
| 12 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 13 | One justification often advanced for local government is the opportunity thus presented for wider sections of the population to become involved in political responsibilities than could be accommodated at a national level . |
| 14 | These clauses , in the forms usually encountered , are more likely |
| 15 | For in both action and control samples the majority still stated , one year later , that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home : only one in the action sample , and two in the control sample stating a clear preference for institutional care . |
| 16 | The majority only attended sessions on one occasion . |
| 17 | Last night , he told Hungarian television , that he would go with the majority of party members , and leave the party if the majority so decided . |
| 18 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 19 | At regular intervals , usually monthly , the contingency previously agreed to be appropriate for that stage of the work should be added to the current estimate to produce the current forecast of the final cost . |
| 20 | The circulars also recommended that those respectable aged who , for reasons of infirmity or lack of friends or family to care for them , required institutional care , should be allowed greater comforts in the workhouse . |
| 21 | ANGLO-Pakistani cricketing relations were strained again last night after the Pakistanis formally objected to Tom Graveney — the match referee for their Test series in the West Indies , writes Giles Smith . |
| 22 | From the mid-third century the Goths certainly impinged on the Empire , launching raids against the Balkans and Asia Minor . |
| 23 | Seen from the ‘ inside ’ of an already symbolic universe , ‘ deviance ’ presents itself as a property inhering in the acts so characterised . |
| 24 | The remainder either remained in Australia for vital war work or joined the labour units of the Australian army . |
| 25 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 26 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 27 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 28 | After waiting for eight weeks the guitar finally arrived . |
| 29 | Police on June 4 raided six " safe houses " used by Sendero Luminoso in Lima , including the headquarters recently used by Sendero leader Abimael Guzmán Renoso . |
| 30 | Mr Ridley said that of the five charges of maladministration the Ombudsman only attached ‘ great significance ’ to one which was a new point about the Jersey partnership . |