Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Ironically , this means that the most exciting objects for play are also the simplest and the cheapest .
2 Fights between skins were usually the result of some territorial infringement .
3 As in the case of the EC Merger Regulation , published rules for assignment are probably the best method with negotiation between the authorities to decide borderline cases .
4 To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills .
5 When the direct collection of primary data is used in marketing research , the methods of survey ( interview , questionnaire , observation ) and the methods of sampling are broadly the same as for any ‘ domestic ’ marketing research exercise .
6 The difference in technique between all styles of grafting is simply the shape in which both the rootstocks and the vinestocks are cut , the prime purpose being to present the largest possible growing surface between the two canes .
7 When rubbish pits are excavated , sherds of pottery and fragments of bone are frequently the only visible remains , because much of the refuse put into pits was the remnants of food preparation which have since decayed .
8 Superficially , the act of controlling for a variable which intervenes between the two original variables of interest is much the same .
9 Thus according to 1.7.2 the units in Q[x] are precisely the non-zero constant polynomials — and there are infinitely many of them .
10 IF RAGS to riches is still the American dream , William Casey lived his own version of it .
11 The Houses of Parliament are also the final arbiters of the tenure of office of judges of the Supreme Court .
12 These five groups of cases are perhaps the most important .
13 The courts of law are undoubtedly the chief repository of the judicial power notwithstanding that they no longer exercise a monopoly in this respect .
14 Lotze 's account of how these ‘ auxiliary impressions ’ became signs of location is much the same as Ryle 's .
15 For all that these strategies can cause irritation , though , their value lies in the implication — a world away from the commonsense views of Miller and Swift — that the surface meanings of words are only the tip of a massive iceberg .
16 It appears from this case ( see also Long v Lloyd [ 1958 ] 1 WLR 753 ) that the rules of acceptance are substantially the same as those applicable in cases of breach of condition ( see Chapter 9 ) .
17 This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence .
18 Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research .
19 But how does he answer his fellow Conservatives like Herr Kohl , or Mr. Eyskens , of Belgium , who says : ’ It is a fact that the most competitive countries in Europe are also the ones with the best social and employment provision ’ ?
20 Humming noises in pipework are often the result of the pump speed being set too high .
21 The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject .
22 The summer visitors to Trebetherick were generally the families of retired headmasters of minor public schools , of ex Indian Civil servants or of Harley Street doctors .
23 The unquestioning acceptance of Kollwitz ‘ diary and letters as literal transcriptions of events is perhaps the most common presumption in all the literature .
24 For dessert , pieces of fruit are generally the best option .
25 Their support and messages of comfort were all the more touching and meant a great deal to the Orkney families .
26 The gigantic Tertiary boulder beds of Ecuador are perhaps the best-known example .
27 Officials in Moscow claimed that communist party buildings in Lithuania were rightfully the property of the Soviet Communist Party ( CPSU ) since the CPL 's declaration of independence in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ] .
28 ( Have you noticed how the Christians on TV are usually the ‘ wet ’ ones , like Harold in Neighbours — it 's no wonder that people think ALL Christians are wet ! )
29 The countries that spend the largest proportion of their incomes on weapons are usually the poorest : Ethiopia spends $13 per head each year on arms ( compared with only $7 on health and education combined . )
30 Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work .
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