Example sentences of "[det] the [noun pl] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the implications are so profound , however , there is an urgent need to consider ways in which data from the 1991 census and vital registration can be linked in more illuminating ways so as to examine the phenomenon of the unoccupied in more depth . |
| 2 | Given that the police are essentially an organization constrained by an ingrained respect for the pragmatism of action — regardless of the lip-service paid to the police college , the ‘ special course ’ , or the university scholarship — it was inevitable that the hierarchy would follow the dictates of institutional philosophy and pull the marginal mover in from the periphery ; for there is a boundary beyond which the pilgrim can not be allowed to stray . |
| 3 | Got any views on that because er bear in mind a lot of the towns and even some of the villages in North Yorkshire have a a problem with drug taking now er that the police are quite concerned about it . |
| 4 | Indeed , given that the sciences are more usually concerned with the inanimate world than the animate , it would seem that there was much less potential in the physical sciences for portraying women negatively . |
| 5 | But officially as least the police are still keeping an open mind . |
| 6 | On this the sources are virtually unanimous ( 11 , pp.167 , 179 , 186–7 , 197 , 204–11 ) . |
| 7 | Can I make the point that if you do n't get to the parents of kids kids , before the end of summer term you could be jeopardising the chances of what they 're doing in the SATS because if you get to the parent erm in the beginning of the spring term and say you know , Fred is not doing particularly well because of this the parents are then in a position to do something about it but if you actually tell them once , basically the stable doors closed what can |
| 8 | On this the authorities are conveniently summarised by Scott J. in Weddell v. J. A. Pearce & Major [ 1988 ] Ch. 26 , 38–43 . |
| 9 | One indicator of this is that there is a branch of Lloyds Bank at this point and after this the shops are generally a mixture of restaurants and speciality shops ( see fig 2 ) . |
| 10 | Apart from this the frescos were particularly well preserved . |
| 11 | When he emerges from this the towers are much closer . |
| 12 | If half the lights are now turned off what fraction of the building is |
| 13 | Half the lines are still down since the war . |
| 14 | If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) . |
| 15 | But , with fog lying constantly in the valley , it was not a healthy place for a school , and by May more than half the girls were seriously ill with typhus fever . |
| 16 | About half the houses were now finished , the turfs laid , the flower beds cut , looking like fresh graves — all in the front , of course . |
| 17 | ‘ Half the songs are more relevant to America than they are to Britain , ’ agrees Jim Bob . |
| 18 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 19 | You may say the Americans were wonderful with their ambulances but they did n't pay for the dairy and half the animals were dead already or had to be slaughtered . |
| 20 | Over half the backbenchers are regularly involved with select committee activity . |
| 21 | For some the pumpkins were just too big to handle . |
| 22 | Oh it 's changed no end erm particularly the fire safety and firing , fire prevention angle has changed erm the operational side has changed in as much the things are more complicated nowadays buildings are more complicated erm fire losses are greater erm |
| 23 | This does not allow sufficiently for annual variations for the figures to permit strict statistical analysis , but even with these the changes are too striking to be totally ignored . |
| 24 | On such mighty systems as these the stations were clearly to be places of great importance . |
| 25 | But all the roads were that crowded . |
| 26 | And most striking of all , the three generals in Sicily in 415 ( Thuc. vi.47ff. ) debate strategy as if all the options are wide open . |
| 27 | She wished all the doctors were as caring as he was . |
| 28 | All the factors are then collected together giving the result 60 = 2x2x3x5 . |
| 29 | The Mess is unwontedly quiet this Sunday morning ; there was a very big party last night at the Sergeants ' Mess and all the officers were there . |
| 30 | Martin Hardie wrote : ‘ Where all the plates are so excellent , it seems unfair to make distinctions , but where Daniell especially excels is in suggesting the warm haze that hangs over a summer sea , or sunlight playing on the roofs of a fishing village and the walls of its harbour . |