Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 2 | Now Norman would have er hopefully explained most that on the phone . |
| 3 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 4 | The images on show reflect the initial choice of photographers themselves , rather that of the awards judges at the final stages ( 11–21 Feb ) . |
| 5 | However , Hume 's way of explaining the gap was not that of the intuitionists , but rather that of the emotivists . |
| 6 | As the train slowed to a halt , he remembered other drivers , mostly some of the ‘ old hands ’ , talk about Bridge 173 and how some of them joked about the ‘ strange sightings ’ near it . |
| 7 | She punctuates her conversation with snatches of song , hummed through closed lips , then recites slowly some of the words she has written . |
| 8 | The purpose of this is to disapply some of the more onerous administrative procedures which would otherwise be required to be carried out . |
| 9 | That is , the reader will be forced to use these ‘ texts ’ to reconstruct , not just some relevant discourse subjects in the presupposition pool , following Venneman , but rather some of the elements of the topic framework existing when these discourse fragments were produced . |
| 10 | President Bush 's administration has revealed its plan to save the Pacific Northwest 's spotted owl , and thereby some of the " old growth " forests which are its homeland . |
| 11 | The Trust says the estate is botanically some of the richest land the National Trust owns with a variety of trees , natural grasses , orchids , marsh flowers , insects and bird life . |
| 12 | The surprising thing is how little some of the room schemes cost . |
| 13 | Right Some of the commoner types of fern-like foliage from the Carboniferous Such foliage often belongs to the seed ferns , rather than the true ferns |
| 14 | Without greater honesty , we shall not combat effectively some of the extreme and ugly negativism which is widespread and which is epitomised by the derogatory phrases which Isaacs ( 1981 ) describes as ‘ defamatory ’ like ‘ old Crumble ’ . |
| 15 | Although Europe is the original home of the cat show and of competitive , controlled breeding , remarkably few of the fifty basic breeds come from that part of the world . |
| 16 | Traditional stylistic terms ( eg that of the periodic sentence — see 7.5.3 ) although often ill-defined , seem to refer to such configurations of categories . |
| 17 | Working just from engineering drawings , the skilled machinist will decide the sequence of cuts to be made , how fast he will run the machine , and how much material to take off on each cut ( the ‘ speed and feed ’ ) , and will control manually each of the levers and screws on the machine which control each aspect of its operation . |
| 18 | So each of the groups four role plays amongst yourselves who will do er the extra role play . |
| 19 | ‘ So each of the victims has a similar profile . ’ |
| 20 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 21 | It does seem that Ross 's view is ( as he claimed ) very much that of the man in the street ( or at least in the streets with which Ross was familiar ) . |
| 22 | If , in the lifetime of Gerard , their family world appeared to be very much that of the Dutch reformed and Huguenot expatriate communities in London , their social horizons expanded considerably after the Walpole marriages . |
| 23 | The concern here , however , is not so much that of the level of such benefits but their spatial distribution . |
| 24 | It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 . |
| 25 | Most experts agree that restoring the balance would entail a massive engineering project drawing down the levels of the reservoirs to below that of the dams to enable young fish to reach the sea quicker . |
| 26 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 27 | It was unmistakably the same girl as in the photographs ; especially that on the cabinet of curiosa . |
| 28 | But even if the analysis is internally consistent , as a prescriptive policy it appears intellectually naïve in the light of historical evidence , especially that for the period between the wars . |
| 29 | Any simplification of Freud 's ideas , especially that of the ‘ Freud reduces everything to sex ’ order , grossly distorts those ideas and limits their usefulness . |
| 30 | Widely in evidence in the ancient world , it was regarded as a powerful protection against evil forces , especially that of the evil eye . |