Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tackles the problems of both dispersing stubborn , localised fat deposits and toning up an uneven , ‘ lumpy ’ skin tone with a revolutionary two-step ‘ liposome-system ’ . |
| 2 | If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle . |
| 3 | Havelock Wilson records the tactics of both sides in Liverpool in June and July 1889 : " I saw some of the principal owners at the beginning and endeavoured to have all questions settled on conciliatory lines . |
| 4 | The infant 's brain records the results of this modification and gradually ‘ constructs ’ a model of reality on that basis . |
| 5 | It records the names of some 70,000 of the forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the battle in the neighbourhood and have no known grave . |
| 6 | a genuine participatory democracy that involves the masses in all decision-making processes from the grassroots levels ; particularly the right of the people to determine for themselves what developmental processes best fulfils their aspirations ; |
| 7 | It can help to speed up the work where an investigation involves the results from several different cases . |
| 8 | There 's strong evidence that Cornwall fulfils the requirements of those special geographic considerations . |
| 9 | Indeed , TMA 1970 , s76 provides that a trustee who has authorised the receipt of profits arising from trust property by or by the agent of the person entitled thereto ( the beneficiary ) , shall not if : ( a ) that person or agent actually receives the profits under that authority ; and ( b ) the trustee makes a return of the name , address and profits of that person be required to do any other act for the purposes of the assessment of that person to income tax . |
| 10 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 11 | Through his powers , he makes fertile the jungle and rivers : he travels to all the sacred homes of the ‘ parents of the animals and fish ’ beneath the earth , and transforms the inhabitants of these subterranean villages into the form of animal and fish . |
| 12 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 13 | I play cricket with the hon. Gentleman , and I know that he understands the laws of that game . |
| 14 | Every teacher understands the implications of this |
| 15 | He admitted that Riddle had made a will three or four years back , and he thinks the provisions of that will stand , but he would n't tell me what they were . |
| 16 | There goes the marks on that one . |
| 17 | Also , the performance of Ivor Novello as the impoverished hero whose charming vulnerability wins the hearts of all the girls , as well as that of a bored woman surrounded by too much luxury , and Cutts 's mobile camerawork , put it in another class . |
| 18 | Herein lies the purposes of this book . |
| 19 | This is a key result because it covers the cases of most interest : the solar system effects and simple black holes . |
| 20 | Then there is the common bracken , a fern which covers the hillsides in many areas of Europe . |
| 21 | It also covers the deaths of some 220 Muslim civilians whose killings Herak is alleged to have witnessed or taken part in . |
| 22 | The argument from error exposes the consequences of this approach for epistemology . |
| 23 | It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective . |
| 24 | Such random or non-serial ordering thoroughly fragments the middles of some recent fiction : equal irreverence for convention appears , sometimes explicitly , in its beginnings and endings . |
| 25 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 26 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 27 | Flights are planned many months in advance , but alteration to these may be made by the IATA scheduling committee which regulates the movements of all international air traffic . |
| 28 | This still outclasses the results of most of the world 's airlines , which collectively lost billions . |
| 29 | The Flow Solution , which comes in five models , incorporates the advantages of both flow injection analysis and segmented continuous flow analysis . |
| 30 | Their system incorporates the contents of several CD-ROMs onto a single , gigantic hard disc of about 2 gigabytes . |