Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , many ornamental objects once again survived , if only to become the focus for the activities of Puritan iconoclasts during the civil war . |
| 2 | The response by government has — primarily — been to embark on a massive prison building programme , despite hopes of malting the Home Secretary 's ‘ twin-track ’ approach more of a reality . |
| 3 | The chemical processes involved are usually associated with hydration ( see Section 6.2.3.1 ) and the addition of water plays a significant role in the physical breakdown of rock . |
| 4 | The data presented in Table 2 show that the addition of distamycin produces a very similar increase in T m values for both duplex 1 and duplex 4 i.e. the drug exerts a very similar stabilising effect on both duplexes . |
| 5 | Although the addition of gold softens tumbaga axes , their working edges could readily be toughened by hammering . |
| 6 | The addition of lime has to be matched to the known hardness of the water and to the distribution of this between the calcium and magnesium hardness . |
| 7 | If you mention the possibility of a conspiracy charge , it would be wise to add that the addition of conspiracy counts when the crime is consummated must be specially justified . |
| 8 | Our data show that the addition of lecithin shifts biliary cholesterol from the vesicular to the non-vesicular phase . |
| 9 | Glasses containing large amounts of silica melt at very high temperatures ; silica fuses at 1713 o C. The addition of soda has the opposite effect . |
| 10 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 11 | The opportunity for confusion arises from the use of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in a clearly unilateral sense followed by the word ‘ appropriation ’ ( describing what the appropriator has unilaterally done ) hypothetically linked to the idea of consent . |
| 12 | The six-stage BOOKWORMS series is followed by the OXFORD BOOKWORMS COLLECTION , which gives students the opportunity of reading works by well-known authors in unabridged and unsimplified form . |
| 13 | I believe one of the forms of philander does occur in the Rift Valley , but it is not nichollsi . |
| 14 | When such a classification is employed it becomes obvious that the majority of work has been directed towards these tertiary activities . |
| 15 | The majority of assistance has historically been provided to private companies , in many cases non-clients , where the shareholders wish to realise their capital and to larger groups ( which do not have their own corporate finance departments and/or where the deal size is insufficient to interest a merchant bank ) wishing to dispose of non-core subsidiaries . |
| 16 | Though charges for certain services have been introduced and increased , the majority of funding comes from central government sources ; |
| 17 | The majority of evidence appears to support the concept that hypertension has an adverse effect on prognosis in the diabetic . |
| 18 | With modern recording techniques we are able to capture the spoken word but the majority of speech dies as soon as the sound waves our voice creates fade . |
| 19 | The series X has a plastic tip as seen in the majority of pole floats these days , the tapered cane stem also caught my eye . |
| 20 | The majority of research has tended to focus on the pattern recognition level , with the higher level processes being progressively of lesser interest . |
| 21 | Although the Bury to Heywood line has been disused since 1980 , the majority of track remains in place thanks to the persuasive powers that Rochdale Council exerted on British Rail at the time . |
| 22 | The majority of opinion reports from the SD and other agencies of the regime reaching the Nazi leadership point nevertheless towards conclusions about the impact on morale similar to those we have witnessed for the Schweinfurt area . |
| 23 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 24 | To some extent the notion of academic scepticism is a caricature or even downright inaccurate ; the advancement of knowledge requires emotional commitment just as much as detachment , and it is the ground-rules of public research rather than the temperament of academics which sustain objective criticism . |
| 25 | The British Association for the Advancement of Science insists that it will be ‘ business as usual ’ for the press at this year 's annual meeting . |
| 26 | The most sophisticated statement of a process approach comes from Nigeria where a modified version of a list produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science has been suggested in the national ‘ Guidelines on Primary School Curriculum ’ to help evaluate coverage and approach in syllabuses and curriculum materials . |
| 27 | The fragmentation of politics has made it extraordinarily difficult to bring a coordinated attack on overall questions about the system . |
| 28 | It will also meet with resistance from some of the groups that stand to gain from such policies because of the grip that the ideology of inequality has on British society . |
| 29 | ( This is especially true when the ideology in question has the doctrinaire , dogmatic and collectively oriented features of Marxism . ) |
| 30 | Its profundity , he argues , lies in the fact that the unity of marriage enters into the mystery of the unity of ‘ Christ and his church ’ . |