Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Floating Church for Seamen was not the only example … there were inventions that might also serve God : the pews for the use of the deaf , for example , which could be connected to the pulpit with gutta-percha pipes . |
| 2 | The unfavourable prospect for exports is perhaps the most damaging of Africa 's economic weaknesses since it implies continued dependence on unstable , and on the whole , unfavourable commodity markets . |
| 3 | The main difference between rakes is how the head is made . |
| 4 | Little industrial units employing a handful of people working for peanuts is not the answer to mass redundancies anywhere . |
| 5 | But his choice of blooms was hardly the issue . |
| 6 | The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance . |
| 7 | I would argue that this careful planning of activities is already the current practice of many teachers . |
| 8 | These five groups of cases are perhaps the most important . |
| 9 | As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour . |
| 10 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 11 | It does not need great intelligence or ‘ professionalism ’ to realise that the dispersal of those kinds of books is not the same thing as clearing popular fiction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even now we do have the problem that our perception of schools is largely the contact we have had with the librarians or some of the staff . |
| 14 | A change related to the smaller number of candidates is perhaps the increase over 1973 in the number of candidates who were elected with a quota at Stage I , 25 against 17 . |
| 15 | ‘ These long stretches of uplands were once the old sheep walks , ’ Fen explained as their path began to climb . |
| 16 | Having taken pains in Part II to point out that there are a number of non-legal sources of advice and assistance , we do not now wish to give the impression that the negotiation of settlements is exclusively the province of lawyers . |
| 17 | Similarly , the use of contractors is sometimes the only way in which certain organisations can meet their demands for key computing skills . |
| 18 | It is sometimes argued that the loss of lambs is partly the shepherd 's fault : that greater care for the flock would cut down losses to predators . |
| 19 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 20 | The fight to save particular buildings or groups of buildings is not the fancy of some impractical antiquarian . |
| 21 | Similarly , each and every producer , merely by setting their own marginal cost equal to the price of their output , will ensure that the marginal cost of films is twice the marginal cost of meals . |
| 22 | The very line we draw between the contingent and essential properties of individuals is also the fruit of the same totalities , so that the traditional role of the distinction itself is abolished . |
| 23 | In fact , a recent flip through Faye 's pile of fashion magazines told Belinda that simple spaghetti-strapped dresses modelled on the design of slips were now the height of fashion for evening wear in New York and Paris . |
| 24 | Pandora is a publishing house which made its name by encouraging first-time writers — successes include Jeanette Winterson , authors of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit . |
| 25 | However an audience of learners is not the same as the audience of native speakers for whom the film was made and the experience of some teachers has been disappointing . |
| 26 | Nor was it much consolation to the church that the extension of prohibitions was less the result of deliberate crown policy ( though the king certainly assisted by the provision of new writs ) than of popular demand among suitors , often clergy litigating against clergy . |
| 27 | It applies also , however , when the sexual component of problems is not the obvious one . |
| 28 | The sequence of observations was broadly the same with one significant exception . |
| 29 | This last-minute change of dates is only the latest in a long line of difficulties we 've had to overcome . ’ |
| 30 | Whether their version of things was really the truth . |