Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there is little pipe — so you would need quite a standardisation between nut sizes large selection of open-ended spanners to cope with all the nuts you might find . |
| 3 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 4 | How policies are emerging in developing countries to deal with both the general issues of the international political economy discussed in the previous chapter and the more particular ones created by global competition is explored in the next chapter . |
| 5 | Whatever your preference , one of the most convenient places to look at all the different classes under one roof is Sailboat , the National Dinghy Show , which takes place at Crystal Palace Sports Centre on March 7–8 , 1992 . |
| 6 | Nature allows some persons to pass through all the successive levels of biological growth and thereby attain their biological needs . |
| 7 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 8 | I could not believe it ; I had another 30 minutes to think of all the things that could go wrong . |
| 9 | Few homes have nearly enough socket outlets to cope with all the electrical appliances the average household now owns , and at Christmas the demand rises to a peak as seldom-used appliances are pressed into duty , and every item of home entertainment equipment seems to be on at once . |
| 10 | But Saunders argues that it is wrong for feminists to draw from this the idea that home is a place of relaxation for men or a setting for the systematic exploitation of women . |
| 11 | It sounds v the odd jobs to do with all the the smaller schools and and |