Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In times of crisis the budgets for cultural institutions are always the first to be suspended , and in some sense this is correct : I do n't want to compete with kindergartens . |
| 2 | It is , perhaps , ironic that those who hid away and escaped expulsion and quietly re-established themselves in their homelands are now the most prosperous redskins around . |
| 3 | It is said , in effect , that their acts are necessarily the company 's acts ; that their will , knowledge , and belief are those of the company , and that their consent necessarily implies consent by the company . |
| 4 | The reasons are partly the growth of new research in technology and science but as important is the current of ideas and information generated by modern global media . |
| 5 | But there are many reasons , as you will see when we put our amendment asking why are budget proposals are different from the ruling groups but the main reasons are simply the ruling group 's refusal , for whatever reason , I just wan na hear the reasons . |
| 6 | As was pointed out in chapter 4 through Lévi-Strauss 's example of the Australian Churinga , material objects are often the principal means of objectifying a sense of the past . |
| 7 | For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) . |
| 8 | No matter how one acts , desires have to depend upon resources to some extent ; actual possessions are partly the criterion of those aspired to . |
| 9 | Their accounts are primarily the taxman 's and the banks ' business . |
| 10 | In other public sector organizations which adopt the cash basis of accounting , the capital accounts are essentially the same as the revenue accounts although the two are kept separately . |
| 11 | It is further evidence that its policies are merely the result of what its paymasters , the trade unions , say . |
| 12 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 13 | The subject matter taught is much the same ; the approaches are much the same ; the anticipated outcomes are much the same ; and the teachers ' and learners ' attitudes are much the same . |
| 14 | Pregnant dolphins and mother/calf pairs are understandably the most severely affected by this ordeal . |
| 15 | These five groups of cases are perhaps the most important . |
| 16 | The most superficial phenomena are sometimes the most profound . |
| 17 | One told him that in the residential sector , placing authorities are often the last to realise that client abuse is going on . |
| 18 | Cultivations are then the only alternative until a grass break or green manure can allow soil life to regenerate and resume its proper role . |
| 19 | Thompson 's and Anderson 's choices of their respective definitions are clearly the fruit of a more fundamental attachment — to the underlying assumptions of individualism in Thompson 's case and to holism in Anderson 's — and as the tone of their exchange reveals , they will not lightly give these up . |
| 20 | If , as we believe to be the case , the unconscious activity of the mind consists in imposing forms upon content , and if these forms are fundamentally the same for all minds — ancient and modern , primitive and civilized |
| 21 | These closed , self-XXXX contained forms are hardly the " classical practice of separate numbers " , though they certainly embrace elements of that practice . |
| 22 | Budget surpluses are now the norm and the emphasis is on repaying government debt rather than borrowing . |
| 23 | The meetings are only the most visible signs of a thaw in the relationship — previously something close to undeclared war — between the Yard and the Labour authorities since Sir Peter 's accession in 1987 . |
| 24 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |
| 25 | In this situation , bearing in mind that the very prevalent hydroxyl and hydronium ions are probably the dominant cause in the hazard risk at 50Hz or 60Hz , it can be presumed that a hazard free situation prevails at 100Hz or 120Hz . |
| 26 | As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour . |
| 27 | This chapter explains : ( 1 ) the application of expert determination to the valuation of shares in private companies ( 3.2 ) ; ( 2 ) that the procedure usually depends on the articles of association ( 3.3 ) ; ( 3 ) that the experts are usually the company 's auditors ( 3.4 ) ; ( 4 ) the effect of the auditors being obliged to determine the " fair value " of shares ( 3.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the effect of specific valuation instructions ( 3.6 ) ; ( 6 ) the special position where a minority shareholder petitions for winding-up ( 3.7 ) . |
| 28 | Still family-owned , most are closed to the public — so these photographs and vivid word profiles are all the more valuable . |
| 29 | Our unconscious plans are often the ones that come to fruition . |
| 30 | ‘ The simple plans are always the best , ’ Benny quipped . |