Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |
| 2 | Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes . |
| 3 | Fear or dislike of the police was way down the list , at 6 per cent . |
| 4 | The negative failure to object , or to opt out , may signify one of a whole range of reactions : fear or prudence in the face of power , indifference , paralysis of the will , sullen resignation , sheer hopelessness , a feeling of ignorance , or habits of subservience . |
| 5 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 6 | Please fax or phone for the brochure . |
| 7 | A French Pinnacle unit — standalone or subsidiary of the UK outfit — should be up and running soon with three staff . |
| 8 | It is doubtful if anything remotely striking will be forthcoming as regards either ISDN or OSI in the two years remaining before dawning of the brave new communicative continent in 1992 . |
| 9 | It may denote ( i ) the external groove or sulcus corresponding to an internal ridge-like inflection of the cuticle which provides mechanical rigidity , or ( ii ) a line of thinner , weaker cuticle along which rupture or bending of the integument can occur at ecdysis , or ( iii ) a narrow , flexible , membranous zone of unsclerotized cuticle , or ( iv ) a linear impression without any obvious mechanical significance . |
| 10 | Mineral and chemical analyses suggest that porosity in the mud is 2–10 times greater than in the concretion , so we have multiplied the PLFA values measured in the latter by those factors ( all other measures are relative ) to allow comparison of microbial activities . |
| 11 | These results suggest that knowledge of the overall theme of a passage is useful only if it is available at the time the passage is read or heard . |
| 12 | They also suggest that attitudes about the value of older people and their position in the marketplace may have changed very little . |
| 13 | Butler and Stokes ' surveys even suggest that part of the electoral swing to the Tories was for no more substantial a reason than the belief among some electors in the ‘ circulation of the parties ’ , i.e. the sentiment that ‘ it 's time the other party had a go ’ . |
| 14 | The report suggest that deficiencies in the radio/navigation equipment may have led the crew to descend on a spurious glidepath ; this was possible , although only if the crew did not keep " the normal continuous mutual check on the basic navigational instruments and the marker control " . |
| 15 | They suggest that engorgement of the lymph nodes with fluid evokes frequency stabilisation . |
| 16 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 17 | These data suggest that investment under the URA programme tended to be made in neighbourhoods ( and census tracts ) already showing stronger revitalisation signals . |
| 18 | These measures probably had a foundation in genuine agricultural unrest — the court rolls of St Albans Abbey record an increase in the number of fugitive villeins in the 1350s but in most places the records suggest that survivors of the epidemic took up vacant holdings , at least those on land of reasonable quality , so it appears that the population surplus from the period before the Black Death still sufficed to provide a reservoir of possible tenants . |
| 19 | The data obtained from these questions and similar ones on other measures suggest that relationships of the form 1x = 1000y are less well known than 1x 100y or 1x = 10y . |
| 20 | I suggest that statements of the foregoing kind sum up what in modern times is a popular view of the kind of thing that scientific knowledge is . |
| 21 | Recent studies on extensional flow suggest that measurement of the viscosity in such flows may contain information on the molecular weight distribution not easily obtained by other means . |
| 22 | Guidelines from the Department of Health say that 85% of the social security element of the funding transfer should be spent on residential care for elderly people with a further 5% on their day care . |
| 23 | Some say that ignorance of the law is no excuse , since any man can say that he did not know , and gain exception thereby . |
| 24 | They say that typhoons on the South China Seas are the worst , lifting and cracking the backs of freighters like discarded toys . |
| 25 | Some observers say that charging on the basis of hours is too simple a method to be used exclusively in the increasingly complex business of auditing . |
| 26 | Two Californian importers have already ordered 800 Wisdom systems by February 1992 and say that orders for the following year could be 10 times greater . |
| 27 | Commission officials say that implementation of the banking directive can not be delayed until the others too are ready to go into effect . |
| 28 | A decision has still to be taken on whether to carry out further research on detailed conservation plans and to consult the Tsimshian indians , who hunt and fish in the area . |
| 29 | The South Korean conglomerate Hyundai plans to fell 300,000 hectares of forest in the Bikin river area and has not consulted the 2,000 Udege , who hunt and fish in the forest , Survival International reports . |
| 30 | It 's the odour the sallow rinds give off , as they cook and crackle in the fire … |