Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 2 | One of the few criticisms that has rankled with Mr Kinnock has been the allegation of cockiness — the presumption he has won before the votes have been counted . |
| 3 | Singapore is one of the few countries that supports the reality of global business . |
| 4 | One of the few things that keeps movies worth watching is the vitality of all the marvellous comedians from Saturday Night Live and SCTV : Bill Murray , John Candy and so on , terrific personalities who can bring a vibrancy even to dead scripts . ’ |
| 5 | Headline is one of the few companies that has lost no staff during the recession — in fact it has taken more on . |
| 6 | It is one of the few villages that has changed position over the years . |
| 7 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 8 | An uneven geographical distribution is also characteristic of tourism , one of the few industries that does tend to be found in the remoter rural areas ( see chapter 9 below ) . |
| 9 | When young , it is one of the few wines that makes a good partner for salads . |
| 10 | Debut against the All Blacks and has played in all four Tests since South Africa 's return to the international scene . |
| 11 | It is the latter factor that encourages euro-dollar time deposits from interest-rate-conscious corporate treasurers and investment agencies . |
| 12 | It is the latter case that has been described by Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1986 b ) in which there is an extension beyond the horizon at which contains a time-like singularity analogous to the ring singularity of the Kerr solution at . |
| 13 | The study reported in this paper has adopted the latter approach and has explored one of the constant metabolic effects of ethanol on the pancreas — namely , increased lysosomal fragility , which may render the organ susceptible to autodigestion by facilitating contact between pancreatic digestive enzymes and lysosomal hydrolases . |
| 14 | This one falls uncompromisingly into the latter category and makes you wonder why it ai n't always this way . |
| 15 | It is the latter development that has had great influence on the creation of the commercial AI industry . |
| 16 | On first encounter it can sound pedestrian , but there 's always something not quite right about the melodies they produce , and the more curiosity that provokes , the more you 're sucked in . |
| 17 | The more effort that has to be put into these component skills , the less processing space there is for monitoring the procedure — i.e. , taking the message as a cognitive object and scrutinizing it for possible inconsistencies . |
| 18 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 19 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 20 | One elder in a blanket rests his sticks against the wall of the former jail and has a pee , contributing minutely to the eventual disappearance of the police station . |
| 21 | It is built of the same materials and shows the same Moorish features of decoration and construction ( 415 ) . |
| 22 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 23 | One main reason for the difficulties considered here is that a settlement usually involves payment of one lump sum in the same way that damages consequent upon a successful court action are also paid in a lump sum . |
| 24 | This increases the money supply in the same way as does a balance of payments surplus . |
| 25 | Some forms of dietary fibre , such as that found in oats , vegetables and fruit , are also able to reduce the level of blood cholesterol , possibly in the same way as polyunsaturates . |
| 26 | This is done in exactly the same way as hits from bows , crossbows or other missile weapons . |
| 27 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
| 28 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |
| 29 | At this price it has come under increasing pressure from the Commodore Amiga , which starts at the same price and attracts similar discounts . |
| 30 | These results were taken as supporting a temporal discrimination hypothesis of the same type that has been used elsewhere to describe short term verbal recency effects ( e.g. Bjork & Whitten , 1974 ) . |