Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , the decision about where the funds are and what areas they cover is artificial .
2 This technique of thinking of how the notes relate to chords is an extremely important improvising and compositional skill , and you 'll find that perseverance produces results that are well worth the effort .
3 I felt there was public benefit from offering this type of information by radio and I have asked Media Action to let us have the enquirers ' addresses so that we can get a geographical appreciation of where the calls came from ( one or two came from Fife )
4 Crucial to an understanding of the human mosaic , therefore , is appreciation of how the opportunities have been identified and acted upon , and how the barriers posed by the constraints have been tackled .
5 Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt .
6 The companies gave no indication of when the sets will be ready , but Hewlett claims that the 700/RXs used with its HP 9000 Series 700s already offer unrivalled price-performance .
7 The issues here are complicated and I only have space to give a rough indication of where the difficulties lie .
8 These should include an indication of how the participants of the consensus group were selected and whether their conclusions were based on their original research or their interpretation of the available literature .
9 A combination of a biographical dictionary of activists begun in the 1920s ( which was cut short by Stalin after completion of only the volumes covering the 1860s , 70s and a small proportion of the activists of 1880–1904 ) and the meticulous records of the Police and Justice Departments on political arrests have made possible rough estimates of the number who actually fell foul of the authorities .
10 But it is equally important , in the world of the late twentieth century , to form a clear conception of how the processes of political change in any one country or group of countries are located in an international network of political forces .
11 The Social Democrats jumped to 44.8% from 38.8% and can choose to form a coalition with either the Greens or the Free Democrats , which is likelier .
12 There was not , however , much discussion on the overall needs of the disabled , and research into how the needs could best be met was minimal .
13 The thought of drifting along in the sunbeams , under the willow of the brook with only the frogs and water-rats to keep her company , filled her with glee .
14 Money spins the wheel from where the Bonanzas sit , and nobody lifts a finger to do anything without figuring the percentage angle .
15 The result is weight and inch loss from just the areas we want to slim down .
16 They 're keeping an open mind on why the women were killed .
17 They 're keeping an open mind on why the women were killed .
18 I thought there was a , there was a full chapter on how the cadres and the Party members sort of went beyond their allowed position and took
19 Erm the decision to inset the village of Skelton erm has ha h has been taken by the authority , the er the consideration and assessment of where the boundaries of the inset should lie erm is what we 're considering today .
20 Each of these chapters contained at least some description of how the concepts and techniques they described could be put to practical use to build up market knowledge .
21 ( Mackie , 1973a ) It is about f and s It is not about x and nor is it about any other event or condition that did occur , and , to speak vaguely , is part of a full story of why the wipers started .
22 It will tell the story of how the rules of the sport were established , the great men and institutions behind them … and some of the scandals .
23 The epic story of how the citizens of Phocaea abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians is told by Herodotus 1.163 ff .
24 The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history .
25 The second part of our series on the agency tells the story of how the photographs were taken , and how the agency came to own them .
26 Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level .
27 One measure of how the dangers of plutonium are assessed is the Japanese plan to build an £88 million coastguard vessel to escort shipments of plutonium oxide from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria for use in its prototype fast reactor at Monju .
28 The issue is now set to go to a full board meeting , a measure of how the directors ' proud notions of consensus have withered over this issue .
29 Instead , and linked with the Secretary of State 's easing — at the same period — in the number of attainment targets in mathematics and science , the reduction in subject compulsions created an uneasy vagueness about where the boundaries of new management now lay .
30 To return to the central question about how the boundaries of special educational provision and therefore of support teaching are to be defined , I shall argue in the remainder of this chapter that although the ‘ individual ’ approach represents what has always traditionally been accepted to be our role , to continue to define our responsibilities in these purely individual terms could have serious consequences , not only for the future of support teaching when we come to evaluate it , but for the development of comprehensive education as a whole .
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