Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the more legitimate approach is to demand that those who maintain the existing system in the face of scientific development must justify their position by pointing to these considerations of reason and policy . |
| 2 | Great care should be exercised by the candidate in seeing that those who sign the nomination paper are electors for the electoral area . |
| 3 | Although the number of expatriates who voted is not known , it is generally accepted that those who take the trouble to register are likely to vote . |
| 4 | They are practices which ensure that those who have the advantage of a network of friends and relations in secure employment will have a better chance of obtaining jobs than those who have a network of friends and relations who have suffered long-term unemployment . |
| 5 | It is thought that those who occupied the Malvern hill forts may have herded their cattle down the Worcestershire drove-ways to pasture them on Longdon Marsh in the summers before the Roman conquest . |
| 6 | still believe that SSE is important but I do n't believe that those who devised the scheme have got it right yet — feedback to the LEA , etc. will only be what senior staff within the school wish to discuss ; |
| 7 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 8 | But what was easier than to assume that those who represented the stage of childhood or adolescence in the development of civilisation were themselves ‘ child-like ’ and had to be treated like children by their mature ‘ parents ’ ? |
| 9 | The study has shown that those who quit the habit also avoided most of the risk of death from tobacco . |
| 10 | This is not the place to enter into a detailed discussion of different electoral systems and their advantages and disadvantages ; but it should be noted that those who oppose the general principle of proportional representation do not usually do so in terms of arguments about democracy and representation , but more often stress the need for strong and stable government . |
| 11 | Er John Grantham , C P R E , erm just coming back to the to the general questions you you asked earlier about about erm consistency with guidance and and P P G three in particular , erm in in the written evidence we we 've addressed that , and I do n't wish to go over that ground short of saying that that I feel the contribution from er Mr Jewitt , which was Hambledon 's particularly helpful in that regard in in I think explaining erm how government guidance is different now to when to how it was er at the earlier deliberations of the Greater York authorities , and I feel that that 's very important consideration erm , I 'd I 'd like to restrict my my comments just to two points , and they they both really refer to things that were introduced by the representative from from Barton Willmore . |
| 12 | And we pray for the refugees of our world , asking that those who have the power and ability to help may have the resources and will to provide food , clothing , shelter and a permanent home . |
| 13 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 14 | ‘ The … the stuff that causes the heat in chillis ’ and I smile , because I just know from the way he phrased that that he knows the technical term but does n't want to appear too smart-alec ‘ is n't soluble in water , but it is soluble in fat . |
| 15 | Game shooting is very often the primary sporting consideration and this can mean that those who want the rabbiting rights may have to accept restrictions on time and place — on guns and dogs too . |
| 16 | It 's generally assumed that those who forego the pleasures of the flesh are elderly , but a report in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that 75pc are under the age of 38 . |
| 17 | Since this period was also accompanied by a decline of the labour force in agriculture , it can be concluded that those who left the industry were predominantly not those living in tied accommodation . |
| 18 | It would therefore be foolhardy to argue that those who entered the battle of Holy River under 1025 and Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland under 1031 were necessarily correct . |
| 19 | The overriding purpose of policing as perceived by ordinary policemen and women is to uphold the law , which requires typifications of very general use and applicability which distinguish between those who keep and those who break the law . |
| 20 | Two car bombs in Karachi kill 72 and injure 250 ; the authorities blame ‘ saboteurs of foreign origin ’ ( in the presence of such disasters , it takes a certain frivolity to care whether those who perpetrated the act were natives or not ) . |
| 21 | The administration demonstrated the same speed and foresight in recognising that those who control the monopoly of the means of destruction can translate into the monopoly of gain . |
| 22 | This is not to say that those who signed the majority Report were disingenuous . |
| 23 | The village was divided between those who wanted Saad 's name cleared and those who wanted the accusation against him proven even after his death . |
| 24 | However , the centrality of the state in the development of Tanzania suggests that those who staff the state apparatus do enjoy a measure of autonomy from class control . |
| 25 | The latter half of the sixteenth century does , arguably , represent a significant turning point in the development of the hierarchy : until that time one can argue that its evolution had been largely functional , that the nature of the hierarchy ensured that those who reached the highest learned offices would have received a thorough grounding in the necessary sciences through both their education and their teaching , and practical training in the application of the law through holding several important kadiliks ; but that after that time , that is , from toward the end of the sixteenth century , the elaboration of the hierarchy was much more negative from the point of view both of learning and of good administration , being essentially an attempt to provide jobs and honours for an ever-increasing number of those seeking both . |
| 26 | Just as the pilgrim who travels to the earthly Jerusalem leaves behind him all his possessions to enable his journey , so Hilton teaches that that which propels the inner journey is a balancing of the will and the mind in the simultaneous awareness that nothing is possible without God who must therefore be desired above all else . |
| 27 | That can be ameliorated if the manager reduces uncertainty by turning to those sources of information — of every kind — which are essential for good organization and by ensuring that those who provide the information are reliable and responsive . |
| 28 | I think television would be as much to blame as any you know the bairns the children 's programmes are all in English and so on you can . |