Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 2 | In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study , where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual 's social world , this contrast is often explicit . |
| 3 | Our great editor was moved , as a result , to insert a sentence or two commenting on the major changes at this level in my particular group . |
| 4 | Our black-and-white picture does not really do justice to its chameleon-like metallic paintwork , which seems to appear as green , silver or blue according to the light . |
| 5 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
| 6 | Of deep concern , also , is the fact that in many countries machinery and criteria for final assessment of primary school children ( with all the feedback that this brings into the school curriculum ) are still dominated by the requirements of selection for Secondary School despite the obvious truth of Nyerere 's statement that those capable of further education will readily identify themselves . |
| 7 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 8 | You can reenter automatically next year and might do well yourself more harm than good going to the start line . |
| 9 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 10 | The results as finally announced on May 22 gave the KDP , with 45.4 per cent , a marginally higher vote than that won by the PUK ( 43.9 per cent ) . |
| 11 | Does the hon. Gentleman recognise the terrible toll that that places on the community and , in particular , on the young people who can not get work and see the possibilities of career development and a decent standard of living slipping away from them ? |
| 12 | Those Asians and West Indians who are more dispersed among the white population are far less likely to suffer every kind of disadvantage than those living in the areas of local concentration . |
| 13 | However , if you have no replacements , be sure to use more club than usual to allow for the decreased distance . |
| 14 | Your issue on Chile ( NI 174 ) was a truly significant and encouraging publication both for Chileans in exile and those working within the country . |
| 15 | He punched Mr. Gilbert in self-defence and both fell to the ground . |
| 16 | The relation between the effects of habituation and those implied by the Pearce — Hall model can perhaps be made clear if we adopt the elaboration offered by Liddell ( 1950 ) of Pavlov 's notion of the orienting reflex . |
| 17 | In the life drawing classes it was hard to get a seat and many sat on the windowsills . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that the great majority of the population were ready to accept the return of Anglicanism and eager to participate in the services outlined in the revised Prayer Book of 1662 . |
| 19 | Between them Stavrogin and Dasha Shatov , Shatov 's sister , the girl to whom the letter is addressed , have conjured the word ‘ nurse ’ which is a term of art as metaphysical as anything in Notes from Underground and impossible to match in the other post-Siberian novels . |
| 20 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |
| 21 | The correlations between the recognition measures from this study and those calculated from the previous study were compared . |
| 22 | The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this . |
| 23 | In this report , it accused the asbestos industry of deliberately pursuing profit in the face of known dangers , and ‘ in the light of the damage done to people working in the industry and likely to occur in the future , … it is simply incredible ’ that nothing much is done about it . |
| 24 | On the west , between the still central figure and those reclining in the angles , the strugglers are divided into three groups in each wing : two groups of three figures each separated by a short one of two . |
| 25 | It was a large , old-fashioned nursery-cum-workroom , with piled baskets of wool and two looms at the far end . |
| 26 | To compare the new technique with the conventional intraoesophageal pH measurement , a method was developed to locate a pH electrode at the same point in the oesophagus as that monitored by the cadmium telluride detector . |
| 27 | Scientific field-research , treating the cultures of tribal societies with the same respect and scholarship as that lavished upon the great civilizations of antiquity and the East , is scarcely more than fifty years old . |
| 28 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 29 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 30 | It has the advantage that current drawn by the arms of the bridge is supplied by the source and so loading of the ratio windings and possible consequential disturbance of the potential difference ratio from is avoided . |