Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus those with the power to organize and coordinate the activities of others will have a higher social status than those they direct . |
| 2 | All small mammal concentrations in the fossil record must be regarded as potential predator assemblages , and the activities of predators must be investigated in order to allow for the predator biases inevitably present in the faunas . |
| 3 | He maintained that Latin America had already been drawn into the capitalist system in a dependent role , and that the activities of imperialism would ensure that it would retain this colonial status . |
| 4 | ‘ Given the present and foreseeable state of fishery resources in the Community and the degree to which fishing fleets have so far been restructured , the full-scale liberalisation of the activities of undertakings must be ruled out for the time being … |
| 5 | If we now turn from atheists to theists , we find that the forms of theism can be categorised in a similar manner . |
| 6 | This is a worrying trend particularly when one considers that the experts at DDRC can not as yet offer an explanation . |
| 7 | Later I wondered , if it was like a race , how at the time you wanted to win , but afterwards the other competitors were your friends because they and you all know what it 's like , and the crowds of hangers-on ca n't share the experience . |
| 8 | The opinions of others may direct us how to think and react . |
| 9 | We may accept that male cooperation was needed for fertility to fall , while at the same time arguing that the opinions of wives may also have had an important effect on husbands . |
| 10 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 11 | The rituals of apology can ameliorate the effects of social accidents . |
| 12 | The cans of paint would have been sprayed on the windows , also to conceal the burning . ’ |
| 13 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 14 | The accounts in hand would seem to favour this alternative suggestion , whether within the narrower confines of school society and the rejection of school rules , or within the wider context of acting against the laws of British society as a whole . |
| 15 | Because of the interrelationships between the language modes , in good classroom practice the programmes of study will necessarily and rightly be integrated . |
| 16 | The programmes of study will apply from five years of age , likewise the attainment targets , although not in operation formally until the age of seven years , will of course be drawn from the study programmes in the first two years of statutory schooling . |
| 17 | 17.15 The programmes of study should , above all , enable pupils to exercise more conscious and critical control over the writing process . |
| 18 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 19 | The institutions in question may not insist on receiving results of assessments ascertaining the pupil 's educational achievements though there is nothing to stop the parent passing it on . |
| 20 | The meanings of words can also be represented as textual definitions within an ordinary dictionary , so a third question may therefore be : |
| 21 | On signing these heads of agreement the shareholders of ABC shall not enter into discussions with any other party relating to the disposal of their interests in ABC for the period of 45 days unless the party to these heads of agreement withdraws or delays unreasonably progress towards completion . |
| 22 | Stable differentiation is the normal state of affairs , and the existence of this variation is one of the things that makes linguistic change possible , in that the different variants can be latched on to by different groups and for different social functions : thus , the patterns of consensus can change in the course of time . |
| 23 | As an elderly member deteriorates in health the patterns of alliance may shift . |
| 24 | Since there are many possible adaptive forms , the patterns of development can be represented as a tree in which many lines branch out in different directions from the same starting point , not as a linear scale . |
| 25 | ( The patterns of coincidence could , of course , be described in terms of the congruence relations introduced earlier ; but no labels will be offered here except that , when congruence is perfect , the relation will be described as ‘ full ’ . ) |
| 26 | The patterns of Nature can appear complex and off putting . |
| 27 | The signs of wear should be obvious for any regular runner . |
| 28 | The signs of EPI can look like many other digestive problems , so it is crucial that the condition is confirmed by tests . |
| 29 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 30 | The Green movement has appropriated the term ‘ ecology ’ for its own purposes by pretending that anyone aware of the complexity of the interactions between species must be concerned to preserve the natural balance . |