Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One final point I would make is is that there has been a a little bit of an impression given I think in some comments this morning that we have a a virtual free for all as regards the availability of agricultural land and er the marked change that it has been said to occur since nineteen eighty . |
| 2 | The empowered organisation , emphasises Kinsley Lord , is held together by forces different from those that bind the command organisation : ‘ If the conventional metaphor for the command organisation is a dinosaur , with the brain at the top issuing instructions to the ponderous body , then that for the empowered organisation might be a shoal of fish , moving rapidly and constantly adjusting its shape through signals that are instantly understood . ’ |
| 3 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 4 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 5 | The civilian in charge was philosophical about this and recognized the limitations . |
| 6 | The time was ripe for such an approach , because progress in chemistry was just beginning to make possible the effective study of very large molecules such as those that formed the main constituents of chromatin . |
| 7 | Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts . |
| 8 | Enteric inhibitory nerves , similar to those that subserve the rectoanal inhibitory reflex , are found throughout the gastrointestinal tract and mediate relaxation in both sphincteric as well as non-sphincteric circular smooth muscle . |
| 9 | Unfortunately this evolutionary attraction of the causal theory is also illusory , for reasons that similar to those that established the circular nature of the Weber-Fechner and other psychophysical laws . |
| 10 | These 7 assumptions are similar to those that underpin the analysis of Markowitz presented in Chapter 4 but they also make important extensions — principally assumptions 4 and 7 . |
| 11 | Now , if you look at all of these and find the longest chain we you can actually get in that respect is a six chain , is n't it ? |
| 12 | The bomb , whose ‘ clean ’ radiation could kill humans without harming buildings , was morally repulsive to many but seemed the ideal weapon to use against the Warsaw Pact 's armoury of tanks . |
| 13 | A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life . |
| 14 | Clarke would do us all a big service if , in his next book , he could produce a law that sorts out the predictions that are too spineless from those that assume the human race to be capable of too much , |
| 15 | Inevitably this means that not only are individual consciousnesses unique but that the consciousnesses of one epoch may differ as greatly from those of another as do the construed worlds of a polar Eskimo and a city dweller in New York . |
| 16 | This attracted the attention of the local landowning family who were not at all happy with this and threatened the founders . |
| 17 | Well , I wonder if you feel that er , there 's something more to this than meets the eye . |
| 18 | Do you think I ought to finish the ship first of all or do the oil painting ? |
| 19 | Are you one of those that upsets the people , are you cleverer than most broadcasters , that really |
| 20 | Either Choose one of these and tell the whole story of what happened — as if you were one of the people in the story . |
| 21 | It is fortunate that the physical features that render a site suitable for overwintering are identical to those that offer the best conditions for hatching success . |
| 22 | The Illuminations , which cost nearly £2 million to stage , attract around eight million of these and extend the season until November 8 . |
| 23 | 16.2 The Proprietor agrees to indemnify the Publisher against loss injury or damage ( including all legal costs and expenses and any compensation costs and disbursements paid by the Publisher to compromise or settle any claim ) occasioned to the Publisher by any claim action or threatened proceedings arising out of a breach or violation of the above warranty provided that the Publisher shall have given prompt written notice to the Proprietor of any such claim , action or threatened proceedings upon its becoming aware of same and provided the Publisher shall have given the Proprietor the option , at the Proprietor 's discretion , to defend such claim , action or threatened proceedings himself . |
| 24 | Scott seemed satisfied by this and slipped the magazine free from his own pistol , jamming in the full one he 'd taken from Hitch 's Beretta . |