Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 2 | Therefore , the study of atk , in the context of its normal function and in the XLA phenotype , will provide important new information about the roles src protein tyrosine kinases play in cellular signalling . |
| 3 | As Allan ( 1985 ) points out , contemporary attitudes to divorce are illustrated by the prevailing opinions as to the effect of divorce on children . |
| 4 | The film is as artificial as a Mozart opera or Goldoni play but behind the artifice lies a generous salute to love , life and theatrical illusion . |
| 5 | An understanding of these processes is of value to all those — for instance , politicians , trade unions , businesses — who wish to understand , forecast and influence economic developments and policy at either an aggregate level or at the level of individual markets . |
| 6 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 7 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 8 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 9 | The Cross is silver and consists of a cross flory terminated in the horizontal and base bars with flaming bombs and in the upper bar with a Tudor rose . |
| 10 | He would very probably find better evidence of present attitudes in his own political experience or in the popular press than in even fairly recent statutes enacted by a legislature most of whose members are now gone . |
| 11 | The theory can be described as a characterisation of the possible patterns or as the destructive part of the problem — it destroys or eliminates certain possibilities . |
| 12 | Interestingly , the root was located either in the eukaryotic branch or in the archaebacterial domain , but never in the eubacterial branch . |
| 13 | Europia , a group representing 34 European oil companies including BP , Elf and Shell , agreed to be more diligent in avoiding spills and accidental emissions and in the handling of raw materials , the conservation of natural resources and the managing of waste . |
| 14 | As the deputation withdrew tactfully to the further end of the great chamber , the queen-dowager conferred with her family , listening to their conflicting views and in the process becoming more undecided than ever . |
| 15 | Many of Stoddard 's carpets have been used in the Palace of Holyrood House , in the private apartment and in the Throne Room itself . |
| 16 | In spite of the sharp rise in the costs of doing business in Singapore in the 1980s , many companies are still choosing it as their regional base because of the ease of doing business there : it has one of the world 's most modern infrastructures , a free enterprise system with no foreign ownership restrictions , no exchange controls , few tariff barriers , a highly motivated and skilled workforce and attractive investment incentives . |
| 17 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 18 | Far from encouraging local authorities and private developers to build more rural houses as in the 1930s , there has been an active discouragement , involving the imposition of strict planning controls , particularly over housing in the open countryside and in other sensitive areas such as Green Belts and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 19 | Waldheim continued to be banned from entering the United States because of his alleged participation in the execution and maltreatment of Allied prisoners and in the deportation of Jews . |
| 20 | The data from the recession may not be useful in managing in normal times but on the other hand may help in managing the next recession . |
| 21 | Further , the extension of this system might well reach the stage when directives are given from political headquarters as to the line of action which ought to be taken locally . |
| 22 | my Lord another factual situation which I 'll simply referred to is the er on going debate in European commission or cases relating to up stream fuel , er , where there 's very little trade , erm for technical reasons because of the isolation of the United Kingdom , however the commission has searched jurisdiction over restricted competition in the market because the fuels have a direct impact upon product , erm from production costs , product down stream of which there is trade |
| 23 | The diagnosis above is a very general definition of this family which is a taxonomist 's nightmare defying a unified description because of the variety of generic forms . |
| 24 | A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees . |
| 25 | The HMI survey of English as a second language in six LEAs ( published 1988 ) found that , on balance , the children in the survey made most progress where the programme to provide help with their English was designed to support the mainstream curriculum but with the oral component heightened . |
| 26 | In the low grade group , all 15 patients achieved complete remission and in the mixed grade group 8 ( 88.8% ) patients achieved complete and 1 ( 11% ) partial remission . |
| 27 | Frightened as much by her own emotional weakness as by the almost dangerous , threatening atmosphere which seemed to be building up between them , she was beginning to feel like some poor rabbit caught in a trap . |
| 28 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 29 | Algae reproduce themselves in two ways — by straightforward asexual division and by the sexual method , of such importance to the progress of evolution , in which the sex cells will only develop if they meet each other and fuse in pairs . |
| 30 | The result is the present multiplicity of bodies producing confusion both at the administrative level and on the part of the electorate , who are left wondering where and by whom decisions are actually taken . |