Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I had n't the least idea where on the head was the best place to hit or how hard it had to be .
2 The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed .
3 Moreover , in the crucial sector of manufacturing output , whilst the rate of growth of output was the same between the pre- and post-war periods the rate of growth of total factor productivity grew 50 per cent faster in the latter period than in the earlier one [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] .
4 An experience like mine makes all the more difference because of its contrast with the past " .
5 The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter .
6 Since 1974 , the centre has been restricted to the old church hall and peripheral buildings around the former church because of the poor and unsuitable state of the main building itself .
7 ‘ Simon the Canaanite ’ thus becomes one and the same as ‘ Simon Zelotes ’ or ‘ Simon the Zealot ’ , appearing in Matthew and Mark under the former designation and in Luke and in Acts under the latter .
8 This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’
9 In approaching this case the court first stated that there were many cases where a court has to construe a standard clause in , for example , a charter party , and there may be some earlier decisions on the same clause or on a clause which is in terms which are indistinguishable .
10 But do n't use the same wording as in the question and do n't translate " word for word " ; reformulation and reorganisation will force you to understand the question and show your examiner that you do .
11 The database can be anywhere on the same PC or on a network . ’
12 The same medium as for E. brevipedicellatus should be used , dried clay granules or balls being an essential incorporation in the substratum for the development of strong , healthy plants .
13 The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way .
14 The emerse form requires a muddy tank bottom and therefore the same mixture as for P. crispus is required .
15 By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 .
16 Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints .
17 If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer .
18 I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together .
19 Alternatively , the change may have been made by Wulfstan himself , in much the same way that in his different records of the Enham meeting he omitted from VI Æthelred death penalties contained in V Æthelred .
20 In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun .
21 The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible .
22 Dealers insist that paintings should be treated the same way because of the auctions for dealers only , where ‘ dead ’ stock is exchanged and where new prices are set .
23 Hence , nominally in the same way as under the system of state procurement are the chief apparatus of the new system of equilibrium .
24 The cannon does not fire and you must test the boiler in the same way as at the start of the turn .
25 The new £75,000 final salary limit applies to AVCs in the same way as to other earnings .
26 ( b ) Construction The general rules for the construction of contracts apply to exclusion clauses in just the same way as to other clauses .
27 This provides you with the opportunity to make objections in the same way as with any other listed building and to put forward alternative solutions .
28 She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker .
29 But first we needed a partner with welding expertise , in the same way as with RAMP , we had arranged a deal with a firm established in paint spraying .
30 At the end of the day , the banks ' central clearing house adjusts each customer 's bank account in the same way as with cheque withdrawals .
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