Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only agreement between them is that the birth of Jesus took place in the reign of Herod the Great , in the town of Bethlehem , and that Mary and Joseph were the names of his parents . |
| 2 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 3 | The fundamental difference between them is that the PC was designed as a text and number processing system and , despite upgrades , this is still the case while the Macintosh was designed to handle graphics in exactly the same way as text . |
| 4 | The only difference between them was that the bloke on the allotment was probably more careful when he prepared the soil , gentler when he started digging . |
| 5 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 6 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 7 | And one of them is cos the gentleman who 's taping the meeting would like a sort of signature for the people 's consent to tape it . |
| 8 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 9 | There are many advantages of working this way , two of which are that the performance technique required is minimal , well within the abilities of the class to achieve a satisfactory result from their point of view , and that it allows the class and its individual members to control the emotional input . |
| 10 | There are also changes to COSHH Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 , the main effect of which is that the use of benzene is prohibited except in industrial processes or for the purposes of research , development and analysis . |
| 11 | The minuet is thought possibly to have originated as a dance movement ( one indication of which is that the violas double the bass line rather than having independent parts as was customary in Mozart 's symphonic works ) . |
| 12 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 13 | This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health . |
| 14 | There are a number of reasons for this , not the least of which is that the statement is protected by professional privilege . ’ |
| 15 | But it must stand alongside other factors , the principal one of which is that the date of his first review should , in my view , relate strictly to the judicial view of the tariff . |
| 16 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 17 | It amounts , in short , to a rejection of the unmediated , dogmatic view of literature as preached by Stalin , Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky in 1934 , the implication of which is that the task of literature is primarily to serve immediate propagandist ends , and the adoption of a more sensitive cultural perspective which distances literature from ideology , grants greater specificity to literary production , and in the process provides a richer , more complex and refracted view of social reality . |
| 18 | There were a number of interacting reasons for this , not the least important of which was that the rebel leadership — including Franco — made a serious error of military judgement . |
| 19 | Erm , we were consulted by the A C C as it were , between committees and had to respond on proposals for giving individual local authorities wider discretions in paying compensation to their employees , erm , the issue here actually summarised quite well in the digest that you already looked at Paper C. The relevant which , at one of which was that the A C C sought powers for local authorities to have a discretione a discretion to award up to an extra , up to fifty two weeks pay in addition to existing statutory requirements . |
| 20 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 21 | One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest . |
| 22 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
| 23 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 24 | Erm the gist of it is that the money from the A B C er i you 're not allowed to go over your forty eightieths of your pension with it . |
| 25 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 26 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 27 | The basis of it is that the landlord , by letting the premises , confers on the tenant the right of possession during the term and impliedly promises not to interfere with the tenant 's exercise and use of the right of possession during the term . |
| 28 | The the the buggeration of it is that the next time round that something goes wrong , it 'll be again something that you 've encountered before ! |
| 29 | Well , one thing I think will come out of it is that the Enquiry will say that this closure will have fairly cataclysmic affects on the economy of this city , I think that 's clear , and I think that will come out of it . |
| 30 | Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin . |