Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 2 | The placement of the bolts by the Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is based just below the quarry , follows private negotiations between the landowner , North West Water , and Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is run by Peter Noble . |
| 3 | A National Ballet is one which is based firstly on the traditional stories , dance , music and customs of a particular country and/or secondly on the atmosphere , texture and typical life of a country . |
| 4 | Constant separations between the two categories are promoted , producing a dichotomized vision of left-wing , radical reformists , antagonistic to the ‘ right-minded ’ ‘ boys in blue ’ and includes a wealth of negative imagery of sociology which is lodged deep in the collective consciousness of the police mind . |
| 5 | That pregnancy should end in birth has an inevitability which is matched only by the inevitability that life will end in death . |
| 6 | Most of these schools are private , though parents receive assistance with the fees from a committee which is funded directly by the government and which allocates grants by means test . |
| 7 | In the course of their observations several authors comment in passing on the confusion created by gratuitous editorial practices of reducing note-values to half those that the composer thought appropriate — a muddle which is exemplified perfectly by the printing of ‘ five minims ’ where , in terms of the music example supplied , ‘ five semibreves ’ was meant ( see line 27 of p.13 ) . |
| 8 | In the same conversational turn , he changes the topic to a lengthy , rhapsodic utterance on the flexing motion of the aircraft 's wings : Anderson 's sudden topic-change and subsequent change of register in the very lyrical statement about McKendrick 's cigarette smoke , is partly explained by the fear of flying which he admits to here , and which is indicated just before the topic-change in Stoppard 's stage directions — " … |
| 9 | Three Chester students who set up their own company — called ‘ No Frills ’ — making everything from Jewellery to boxer shorts , took the BNFL award which is given annually to the operators of the best company . |
| 10 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 11 | Alternatively , a replacement nylon seat can be fitted which is placed firmly on the old seat and a new washer and jumper fitted |
| 12 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 13 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 14 | There is a , a gesture there , of course , which is replicated right at the end is n't it ? |
| 15 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 16 | This comprises a char for the letter ( 1 byte ) , a boolean for the continued flag ( 1 byte ) and a long integer for the next edge index ( 4 bytes ) — a total of 6 bytes which is rounded up to the nearest word boundary ( on a Sun Sparc 2 file server ) , hence 8 bytes . |
| 17 | Financial fixed assets of building societies are accounted for at maturity value , plus or minus any premium or discount on purchase , which is amortised systematically over the security 's life . |
| 18 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 19 | Some individuals have made minute contributions , each measured as equal to the single unit of ‘ goodness ’ which is defined herein as the unit contributed by evolution . |
| 20 | This restriction does not lose us any power , however , because every occam program can be identified with the set of its finite syntactic approximations ( a term which is defined precisely in the second section ) . |
| 21 | ( Note that what matters is when a gene affects survival and fertility , not when it is expressed ; for example , a gene which is expressed early in the development of the heart might increase the chance of heart disease much later in life . ) |
| 22 | Late in 1913 he wrote on a more factual note : ‘ Futurism is not without importance , and its manifestos drawn up in France have had an influence on the terminology which is employed today amongst the most advanced painters . ’ |
| 23 | It 's not just the automotive industry which is looking critically at the suppliers . |
| 24 | A takeover offer which is made voluntarily by the offeror ( ie not a mandatory offer ) . |
| 25 | A voluntary offer is a takeover offer which is made voluntarily by the offeror ( as distinct from a mandatory offer ) . |
| 26 | The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines . |
| 27 | Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years . |
| 28 | My top mark went to Waitrose 's non-vintage Blanc de Noirs ( £11.25 ) , an elegant , finely structured champagne which is made entirely from the Pinot Noir grape . |
| 29 | Against this can be weighed the advantages of producing an article or item which is made especially to the customer 's own specification . |
| 30 | We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker . |