Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not want to labour the failures of the past but I do want to emphasise that many of the problems that are now being tackled are the legacy of past management failure . ’ |
| 2 | Reports tend to confirm that most of the fish have completed spawning activities and seem ready to feed . |
| 3 | The Government 's official scientific advisers , the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , has recommended that many of the blocks currently being offered to oil companies should be withdrawn from the licensing round . |
| 4 | Professor Sawyer has argued that many of the small pre-Conquest landowners who appear from Domesday Book to be independent were in fact tenants of lords not named , and thus that lordship may have been more extensive than has sometimes been realised . |
| 5 | A Department of the Environment report has revealed that most of the British public has " woolly and undeveloped " ideas about energy conservation , with very few people aware of the link between domestic energy usage and environmental problems . |
| 6 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 7 | Dating of the volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands has shown that each of the main islands was formed in about 1 Ma . |
| 8 | Later research has shown that some of the statements in that paper do not agree with records made at the time in the laboratory notebooks of some of the people concerned . |
| 9 | Many an enthusiast committed to achieving high standards has found that all of the painstaking preparation can be ruined if the aquarium becomes a miniature battlefield once the livestock is introduced . |
| 10 | It has found that all of the councils should have the necessary administrative arrangements in place to issue bills no later than the end of April and to begin enforcement action by May or early June . |
| 11 | A study conducted on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has concluded that many of the claims made by timber retailers regarding the supposed sustainability of their sources are misleading . |
| 12 | Arguing on the basis of income , A. H. M. Jones has estimated that some of the more wealthy land-owners in the western provinces must have held ‘ several thousand square miles ’ . |
| 13 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |
| 14 | PLO chair Yassir Arafat in an interview on July 28 said : Rabin " has admitted that some of the settlements are illegitimate . |
| 15 | The Home Secretary , Michael Howard , has confirmed that some of the changes recommended in the Sheehy Report on Britain 's police forces , are to be introduced . |
| 16 | The census office has warned that some of the information released could be misleading until it has been fully analysed . |
| 17 | But Mr Dixon has warned that some of the non-teaching work done at the unit might have to be scaled down . |
| 18 | Similarly , the Alsager team has discovered that some of the quickest bowlers , like Allan Donald of Warwickshire and South Africa , tend towards a hyper-extended knee as the front foot hits the ground . |
| 19 | Peter Sawyer has suggested that some of the earliest surviving charters of the Anglo Saxon period refer to such estates and hence for some areas in the seventh century the early estate structure can be defined . |
| 20 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 21 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 22 | The social worker regularly assigned to the case seemed to call when most of the children were at school , so he was unable to judge their progress at first hand . |
| 23 | Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine . |
| 24 | Logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether any of the reflux variables was predictive of oesophagitis . |
| 25 | As well as taking a careful look at what lies beyond the marketing blurb , prospective purchasers need to be very sure of their requirements — before they even begin to consider whether any of the available systems can meet their needs . |
| 26 | We would like to propose that many of the gestural sequences , both those directed towards the state of play on the football pitch and those occurring in the interactional posturing between rival fans , can be understood metonymically . |
| 27 | He continued : ‘ Mick and I would like to think that some of the things we set out to achieve here have happened . |
| 28 | Mean attitude scale scores for the different sub-groups of teachers , derived from the factor analyses for each phase , were then used to test whether any of the institutional and demographic matters listed above had a statistically significant effect on these attitudes . |
| 29 | The judge declined to find that any of the information contained in the blue book bore the stamp of confidentiality within the criteria laid down in Faccenda Chicken , ie it could not be described as a trade secret or anything approximating thereto . |
| 30 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |