Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor will a network of single-purpose bodies find it easy to co-ordinate services either with one another or with the services of the districts or boroughs . |
| 2 | Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts : |
| 3 | Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species . |
| 4 | His argument is that the department can not do this because of the numbers now being taught in Art ( group sizes of up to 32 ) , which the Head of Department stands by . |
| 5 | Firstly , geography alone means foreign traders are less well known to one another because of the distances involved , e.g. a Brazilian exporter despatching goods to Singapore . |
| 6 | No longer can there be a neat and tidy debate in the pages of august journals such as this as to the benefits , or otherwise , of the new product . |
| 7 | Mr Smith encouraged forming an open and honest relationship with the bank , presenting this as in the interests of both parties . |
| 8 | Although the decision has caused controversy , it is not so much because of the principles underlying the determination of a duty of care but mostly because of the House of Lords ' interpretation of the Companies Act responsibilities of auditors . |
| 9 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 10 | I am fighting for them as much as for the shareholders . |
| 11 | That unpleasant responsibility is less necessary than it was but the habit of mind , in society as much as with the professions , lingers on . |
| 12 | The producers cared about the songs as much as about the sketches . |
| 13 | Unlike the arrangements for the transfer of the Diploma in Art and Design , which involved a change to a degree award , there was no immediate programme of revalidation in this case , and a five-year review programme was introduced , with the intention of integrating the DMS into the work of the Council as much as considering the courses themselves . |
| 14 | He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them . |
| 15 | The consequences of technical change are influenced at least as much as by the objectives that managers seek to achieve in introducing change . |
| 16 | this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art . |
| 17 | They are to be looked for in our Western indigenous psychological explanations as much as in the domains of scientific pursuit which , as Riches notes above , are not themselves free from such ontological conceptions . |
| 18 | At the western end of the Vale of the White Horse in Berkshire dairy farming afforded greater opportunities to smallholders , and poor labouring folk were far fewer than on the Downs . |
| 19 | Scandal at Bedminster parish — but we read all that in the papers … |
| 20 | She fluttered the strut all and above the windows like eyelashes and all three storeys brick style glowed with pride . |
| 21 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 22 | ‘ Every trophy is nice but perhaps this is our best of all because of the difficulties we 've had this summer . ’ |
| 23 | All because of the policies of those who shouted the loudest last week . |
| 24 | Tell people that you are going to meet Linford Christie , and women go coy and men go bawdy , and it is all because of the shorts , the blatant visual précis of the image . |
| 25 | All because of the rabbits . |
| 26 | Was that because of the docks ? |
| 27 | There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined . |
| 28 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 29 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 30 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |