Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [conj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 2 | These now comprise 10pc of the total index but are under a cloud because of fears about US President 's wife Hillary Clinton , who is expected to stamp on their profits hard when her review of the US health scene comes out later this year . |
| 3 | and then plan for the future within the total resources that are available . |
| 4 | Counts of E coli , and a few rare isolates of other enterobacteria , were low compared with the total flora and were commonly present at levels close to the limit of detection . |
| 5 | The lower graph shows the total output that is produced when different quantities of labour are employed ( it illustrates , in fact , the short-run production function ) . |
| 6 | At the time of the coups the Melanesian and Indian communities each constituted a minority of the total population but were approximately equal in size . |
| 7 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 8 | A particularly interesting pair of variables to which to apply this is provided by the energy E and the time t : unc At first sight this is a puzzling relation , because time is not quite an observable property of a system in the normal sense but is rather a parameter marking when an observation is made . |
| 9 | It 's the trying part that 's unbearable . |
| 10 | The original five-year ban , which expired in March this year , was made at the request of the Salvadorean government and is intended to protect the significant archaeological sites in the Cara Sucia region where stone and ceramic artifacts have been uncovered . |
| 11 | All four schools were awarded prizes for reaching the semi-final stages that were presented afterwards by Lyn Davies , head of the computing and information department at Sittingbourne . |
| 12 | There 's been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about ‘ the depressed market ’ , and certainly the fiscal policy of high interest rates has had the short-term effect that was intended . |
| 13 | Little has changed here , although the upper galleries of the terraced cottages that overhung the narrow streets and were no hazard in the days of horses and carts have succumbed to the needs of larger traffic . |
| 14 | I groaned inwardly as I climbed the narrow stairs and was plunged in darkness when only half-way up . |
| 15 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 16 | The very diverse nature of the IT theses being covered by students ' researches meant that very small numbers of students were frequently found studying particular combinations of the broad church that is information technology . |
| 17 | Muriel held the broad shoulders and was surprised at the strangeness of the proximity , just as she had been surprised at the sight of Delia 's loosened hair some weeks before . |
| 18 | ‘ The Labour group wants to take a reasoned , properly considered approach to the momentous events that are taking place in South Africa , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Sir Anthony famously discovered in Cardiff this month what the rest of the country had known for a year : that many children saw the grisly film and were delighted by his Oscar-winning portrayal of the cannibalistic anti-hero . |
| 20 | Marie Grubbe had loved Søren Sørensen for the indefinable quality that was his alone : for himself . |
| 21 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 22 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 23 | She finally found her voice , screaming as she bolted from the hideous life-form that was shaping even as she watched into the form , the outward appearance of a dead human . |
| 24 | In the light of what we in our omniscience now know of Falkenhayn 's intentions , and of the hideous tragedy that was to ensue at Verdun , we may say that France should not have decided to hold the city at all costs . |
| 25 | Another myth preserved in magical papyri emphasised the power of the divine name and was a tale about Isis and Re , usually called " The Secret Name of Re " . |
| 26 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 27 | Paradoxically , Lukacs 's comments at the theoretical level mark a return to the collaborative possibilities that were available at a practical level in France during the 1930s . |
| 28 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 29 | The loop operates in the flat floored area of the lower level from the stage to the front of the tiered seating and is fed from signals from the existing amplification system and , therefore , can only be used in conjunction with that system . |
| 30 | In his opening address welcoming delegates to the summit on Nov. 19 , President François Mitterrand of France said that " it is the first time in history that we witness a change in the depth of the European landscape that is not the outcome of a war or bloody revolution " . |