Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | If loss of amenities is for the rest of the plaintiff 's life the court will need to take into account in assessing damages his age and his expectation of life . |
| 32 | The probability So that while the mean position after n steps is at the origin , the root mean square ( r.m.s. ) path length is . |
| 33 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 34 | I would say that three months is about the maximum , and that long before this period is up the confection , like a fresh fruit sorbet stored in the deep freeze , has lost its exquisite flavour and the edge has gone from the sharp scent . |
| 35 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 36 | The affidavit evidence of the defendants is to the effect that they did not understand that executing a further charge was prohibited by the order . |
| 37 | Dead metaphors also have a certain syntactic rigidity ; the quality of being ‘ dead ’ is closely tied to a particular syntactic form , and with any modification the metaphor springs to life : compare He has one foot in the grave and One of his feet is in the grave . |
| 38 | One of the earliest descriptions is of the ‘ life energy ’ known as ‘ prana ’ given in the ancient Hindu and yoga teachings . |
| 39 | The damage is being done and the survival of Scotland 's wild areas is at the cusp . |
| 40 | The ratio of service to manufacturing jobs in most rural areas is of the order of 2 : 1 , but in the remoter rural areas this rises to 4 : 1 ( Gilg 1976 ) ; service employment however also tends to include more part-time work and self-employed workers . |
| 41 | The first of these tensions is about the degree of attention that needs to be paid to natural ( i.e. genetically given ) sex differences and similarities . |
| 42 | The first of the CDs is in the shops on Monday , comprising the current hit ‘ Losing My Religion ’ and live versions of ‘ Stand ’ , ‘ Turn You Inside Out ’ and ‘ World Leader Pretend ’ . |
| 43 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 44 | The noise from oil rigs is within the frequency range of dolphin vocalisations and can be detected from a distance of 80 km ( 50 miles ) with hydrophones . |
| 45 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 46 | One of the most significant collections of these models is at the Museo ‘ La Specola ’ , at the University of Florence , where life-size models created in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century are on display . |
| 47 | Another example of the use of simulation models is in the estimation of the yield of a drainage-basin . |
| 48 | According to the findings of psycho-analysis , a conflict surrounding unconscious homosexual elements is at the centre of the psychosis known as paranoia ( or paranoid schizophrenia ) . |
| 49 | The main differences between specialists studying different types of finds is in the scientific methods of analysis available . |
| 50 | A second set of concerns is with the structuring of the organisation and the way in which it groups its activities . |
| 51 | The selection of these particular texts is on the grounds that they succeed in overcoming a dualistic representation of the relationship between the human subject and culture by avoiding reductionism ( either to the external world , as in behaviourism , or to the given subject , as in essentialism ) . |
| 52 | The most important of these columns is in the youth newspaper Komsomoljskai Pravda ( with a daily circulation of 17 million ) . |
| 53 | For Tobias is on the dresser : one meal a day on the kitchen window-ledge ( otherwise the hedgehog gets it ) . |
| 54 | If this right to emit sparks is worth more to the railway than stopping the sparks is to the farmers ( because suppressing sparks is costly , say ) , then the railway will buy the right to emit sparks from the farmers , and the damage will continue . |
| 55 | Here again , I do n't see why the prognosis is particularly gloomy ; for self-adaption to changing methods and circumstances is of the nature of a continuing society . |
| 56 | It is unusual for two reasons : he used the powdered bone of the toad with drawing oils and substances instead of with jading substances as most horsemen in Suffolk did ; again , the description of the actual ritual of getting with all the attendant circumstances is of the deepest interest . |
| 57 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 58 | However your emphasis in most of the articles is on the middle-income countries and bank debt . |
| 59 | One of the articles is about the abstract artist Sol LeWitt , who was in Krauss 's opinion misinterpreted by three critics as serving ‘ as triumphant illustration of the powers of human reason . |
| 60 | One of the criticisms is of the variations in approach adopted by the various county courts , court staff and registrars , resulting in a difficulty in providing advice of a consistent nature . |