Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [verb] " 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 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 3 | The chilli also meant that Praeger had been just a wire man with orders not to kill anybody who came at him just blind them and run . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The outdoor sand pit may include many of the activities already described and is dealt with more fully in chapter 9 Outdoor Activities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 9 | This gave the backs quality possession and the defence eventually cracked . |
| 10 | He added that the defence also needs more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after new evidence came to light last week . |
| 11 | The defence also claimed that Poindexter had never intended to mislead Congress and that any inaccuracies in his testimony were accidental . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The defence then kick 50 yards downfield . |
| 14 | Worst of all the defence totally lost concentration after about eighty five minutes gone . |
| 15 | Darlington manager Ray Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well held by the keeper . |
| 16 | Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well saved . |
| 17 | But murder invariably meant a court appearance and cross-examination the defence seldom let the scientific evidence go unchallenged in this , the gravest of charges — and a court appearance put document examination in general , and Hoggatt 's Laboratory in particular , on public trial . |
| 18 | The response also emphasised the usefulness of park and ride schemes , pointing to the need for a high degree of co-operation and goodwill where it is necessary to involve adjacent local authorities . |
| 19 | The size of the response also makes the survey the biggest regular business in Scotland . |
| 20 | The response certainly illustrates the transition to a less " intransitive " pedagogy and more " interpersonal style " : Questions are coming up from the students . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC ( 1929 ) 14 TC 512 at 527 explained that decision thus : The income never came into the coffers of the trustees , they never touched nor handled it . |
| 23 | The amount used to restore the income account is , however , no longer the same item as the income originally borrowed . |
| 24 | It was a remarkable discovery on Gould 's part , given that , apart from their extraordinary beaks , many of the finches simply did not resemble finches . |
| 25 | These places on a water that attract casual anglers and , therefore , receive a lot of bait during the daytime often fish well after nightfall . |
| 26 | The Premier also said there was still the option of an American peace envoy being appointed to oversee developments in Ulster — if the talks failed to get under way again . |
| 27 | The Premier also has the largest majority of any MP , 36,230 votes ahead of his Labour rival . |
| 28 | It ‘ does not offer any one way to the truth but helps people find the disciplines most suited to them ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ And it was so windy the tent nearly blew away ! ’ |
| 30 | The tent eventually fails into a deep stillness . |