Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 We hope you will come with suggestions in September , either specific movement themes or particular facets of training that you would like covered during these sessions and the teachers/trainers you would like to teach them .
2 The relevance of this case in the present context depends on the statements of principle contained in the judgments which , being in the Court of Appeal , are binding upon us .
3 I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me .
4 ‘ College men ’ or ‘ academics ’ are considered to be potentially dangerous and polluting because of their limited understanding of the ‘ polis 's ’ real world ; for they never stay long enough to experience the depth and complexities of the activities which lend him his ‘ special knowledge ’ .
5 A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there .
6 The activities which occur inside hospital and are taken so much for granted by staff can be bewilderingly strange to the patients .
7 Tourism is a distinctive type of recreation which involves the movement of people , on a temporary basis , to destinations beyond their usual residence and the activities which they then pursue .
8 The whole of the school community feels positive about the involvement of partners and the activities which have been introduced or enhanced through their existence .
9 The teacher is the initiator of many of the activities which lead towards number .
10 These consist of all the activities which look good in the brochure but no one ever actually does , like windsurfing ( on a pond ) , clay-pigeon shooting ( which costs 20 quid ) or canoeing ( on a pond ) , .
11 Then in the third section , I will look forward to the activities which are likely to continue in the future .
12 Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty .
13 For obvious reasons , financial security at a level which permits old people to join in the activities which are part of everyday society is a foundation on which much else rests .
14 On occasion , the need to separate and the guilt about it may be the focus of work ; more often , it will be to validate and confirm the spouse or partner in the activities which they are performing .
15 It is unfortunate that the activities which took place in the buildings can rarely be determined .
16 This is the language component : it provides the activities which help participants to understand the business situation as presented through the Information File , the Video , and the Audio Cassette and to develop the skills necessary to perform the assignment .
17 The activities which seem most obviously to have their point in themselves are what we regard as typically leisure activities — art , playing games , joking .
18 This implicitly derogatory attitude to women is linked both to an overmonolithic account of male power , and to a failure to give much attention to the ways in which women have , in fact , often spent much of their lives , and to the activities which have been particularly theirs ( such as the rearing of children , for example ) .
19 Millett basically dismisses the activities which have tended to dominate women 's lives as ‘ infantilising ’ , because they restrict women to the level , she argues , of the merely biological , and do not allow them to enter upon the ‘ fully human ’ activities which have been the province of men .
20 Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe .
21 The activities which may be subject to investigation under this scheme are those specified in Part II of Schedule 12 [ to the Act of 1986 ] , which are described there under the following headings : — share accounts — deposit accounts — borrowing members : class 1 or class 2 advances — borrowers : loans by appropriate mortgage companies — borrowers : mobile home loans — borrowers : other loans — banking services — trusteeship — executorship .
22 It is common ground that Norwich and Winchester carry on ‘ investment business ’ by reason of their engagement in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act : section 1(2) .
23 Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors .
24 The activities which lead most directly to fluency , accuracy and comprehension are : listening , mimicking , drilling , and communicating , and any daily programme you follow should contain these four ingredients .
25 Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 below , the Funding Council shall have the power — ( a ) to acquire , hold and dispose of land and other property ; ( b ) to enter into contracts , including contracts for the employment of staff for the purposes of the discharge of their functions ; ( c ) to invest any sums not immediately required by the Funding Council for the purpose of their carrying on any of the activities which they have power to carry on ; and ( d ) to accept gifts of money , land or other property and apply it to , or hold or administer it in trust for , the purpose of the discharge of any of their functions .
26 Investment business is defined in paragraph 1(2) of FSA as meaning the business of engaging in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 of FSA ( ‘ Investment Business ’ ) and which are not specifically excluded by Part III of Schedule 1 ( ‘ Excluded Activities ’ ) .
27 Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy .
28 In this process of revealing and sharing the head must manage the activities which add up to accountability .
29 Further down the chain of linked processes , are all the activities which eventually result in the provision of the product to the final consumer .
30 3 Reasonableness between the parties The question whether a particular restraint is reasonable in the interests of both parties generally divides into three parts : ( a ) Is the scope of the activities which the clause restrains reasonable ? ( b ) Is the geographical extent of the restraint reasonable ? ( c ) Is the duration of the restraint reasonable ?
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