Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 2 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 3 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 4 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 5 | Similarly , 4 per cent of Sun readers spent a heroic two hours or more reading the Sun every day , according to a 1975 study for the Press Commission . |
| 6 | Unable to visualize plans or even to judge the success of a design from a scale model , Ceauşescu demanded larger and larger mock-ups . |
| 7 | The south-facing terrace is perfect for enjoying early morning coffee , evening cocktails or just admiring the scenery . |
| 8 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 9 | These by-passed local government and allowed developers who intended to regenerate areas of 20 acres or more to approach the Department of the Environment directly . |
| 10 | Relationships are at their most transformative stage , and after the 14th you should be reaping the harvest of love 's labours or indeed digesting the results of your efforts in other directions . |
| 11 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
| 12 | There the political system has several characteristics that particularly facilitate the mobilization of small groups of people to influence decisions . |
| 13 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |
| 14 | It has shields on its body and flanges on its legs that exactly match the hue and surface texture of the orchid petals . |
| 15 | Other projects seek to involve health professionals , from both private and government institutions , in humanitarian work and in organizations that seriously examine the nature and roots of the health crisis . |
| 16 | But while the audience can relax in relative comfort in the mini auditorium which seats 200 , staff and performers have always had to work in rather cramped conditions in tiny dressing-rooms and offices that still have the old wall-paper on the bedroom walls . |
| 17 | Furthermore , a similar effect can be produced by applying a substance to the eyes that artificially dilates the pupils ( Legg 1988 ) . |
| 18 | In his right hand he carried a long machete , but it was the crazed look in his eyes that really shook the young policeman . |
| 19 | Along the great escarpments that form the spine of modern-day Lebanon , above the rivers that vein their way across the country , the crusader castles that once formed the outposts of Christendom are still part of a front line , albeit with the roles of their defenders historically reversed . |
| 20 | In this first phase of DIP development vendors offered solutions that merely handled the archival and retrieval of images . |
| 21 | It suggests that of the subjects that usually comprise the humanities , philosophy need not necessarily be identified with the humanities at all , literature and the other arts are defined by their concern with art-objects and history arguably belongs to a broader conception of ‘ human sciences ’ . |
| 22 | The black tunnel mouths , the stale warm air , the distant wail of a saxophone : these had become sensations that scarcely penetrated the borders of his awareness . |
| 23 | However , there are several different kinds of centre-periphery relationships that significantly influence the implementation process . |
| 24 | Recorded not long after a live cycle at the 1974 Aix-en-Provence Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the composer 's death , these are wide-ranging , run-in performances that completely escape the contrivance and routine that can so often creep into such extensive complete surveys . |
| 25 | When continued parsing from a given long word fails , not only could all short words that immediately follow the long word be retrieved from the buffer , but also all short words that are subsumed within the span of the long word . |
| 26 | They came to a clearing and Nicky slumped on to the trunk of a felled tree , shaded by the overhanging branches that almost covered the space it had made . |
| 27 | It is the detailed , etched pictures that really tell the tale ; the text serves to reinforce the story but suggests rather than dictates the plot , with different monkeys taking over as narrator . |
| 28 | Instead , keep your background uncluttered , for it 's the simple pictures that often work the best . |
| 29 | The folly was a gift from the Sultan of Oman , just one of the many presents that now adorn the property . |
| 30 | T. Rex and his relatives also had large , curved tails that never touched the ground when the animal was in motion . |