Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 The central aim of this research is to explore the basis of this relationship by focussing on three key aspects which bear directly on the effectiveness of public policy initiatives in this sector .
32 Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay .
33 Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list .
34 The point seems to be that " knowing or believing " are simple words which do not in the ordinary run of things require an explanation .
35 The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them .
36 Nerve cells , unlike other cells , have the ability to communicate with other nerve cells by the use of long thin fibres known as axons and dendrites which extend outwards from the cell body , allowing the cell to influence from 1,000 to 100,000 other nerve cells .
37 Knowesouth provides a locally based service for the population of the Eastern Borders which consists mainly of the towns of Jedburgh , Hawick and Kelso .
38 Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue .
39 If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition .
40 We assume that at some critical r-value , r* , there is a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a , and consider , for r-values close to r* , whether or not there are any trajectories which remain forever within the regions B U 5 U T. Providing that we choose B , 5 and T to be small enough , with r close enough to r* , and that we are only concerned with the topology of trajectories , it is permissible to regard the flow within B as linear , and to think of the map which takes points in the discs D and D " to points in the discs E and E " as a linear transformation .
41 However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) .
42 The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed .
43 There is good evidence that it is associated with individual galaxies as these seem to have dark haloes which extend well beyond the visible stars .
44 You will see that each of the four principles of the Standard is accompanied by a number of indicators which stem directly from the Standard but do not go beyond it in any way .
45 This is overlain by further sandstones and silty red-beds which pass up into the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone .
46 Instead of being built on a mound , natural or artificial , and surrounded by a moat , Dunbar 's rose in lofty towers on a series of pointed rock-stacks which thrust out of the sea , these linked ingeniously by covered stone bridges .
47 In the attic they uncovered an exciting collection of 19th century Cambridge University calendars year books which fit in with the fact that Mr Edelson was closely connected with Trinity College .
48 The Poles of the north-western provinces who responded enthusiastically to the tsar 's entreaties were untypical .
49 The signals you put across at the job interview can flag your future ambitions .
50 We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers .
51 Philip 's comments provide an ironic commentary on other ( younger ? ) readers who identify strongly with the B. A. He suggests the possibility of using the text to bolster the male reader 's own claims to superhuman strength even as he simultaneously dismisses this as fantasy .
52 He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires .
53 These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit .
54 A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison .
55 And with these words she thumped off down the stairs , leaving me to collect my thoughts for the hard task of Testifying .
56 Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI .
57 The procedure is very demanding in terms of time and trouble for the inspectors who enter wholly into the spirit of what is required .
58 Both of them were breathing hard , such a hurry and scramble of lips , hands , such a heat inside and between them , he stuffed one small breast into his mouth and then the other , giving her the same churn of astonished guilty pleasure as when she lay on her bed in the afternoons and read the forbidden books she smuggled home from the library .
59 A considerable amount of time was spent in assessing the answers to the two questionnaires you filled in during the year ; the proposed programme reflects your wishes .
60 George reluctantly accepted the situation and with a mouthful of curses we drove off down the now dusty road towards the Orne .
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