Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , this means that the most exciting objects for play are also the simplest and the cheapest . |
| 2 | Though some economic texts suggest that the case for charging is essentially the same as that for any price mechanism , the history of charging suggests the motivation has usually been quite different . |
| 3 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 4 | Fights between skins were usually the result of some territorial infringement . |
| 5 | The space-economy for example is simply the spatial pattern of organization created by the industrial economy ; it is not an independent variable . |
| 6 | As in the case of the EC Merger Regulation , published rules for assignment are probably the best method with negotiation between the authorities to decide borderline cases . |
| 7 | Although vertical transmission down the archives of the species is ultimately what ‘ success ’ means , the criterion for success is normally the action that the genes have on bodies , by means of their sideways transmission . |
| 8 | The criterion for selection is not the genes themselves , but the bodies whose shape the genes influence through DEVELOPMENT . |
| 9 | To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills . |
| 10 | Even now we do have the problem that our perception of schools is largely the contact we have had with the librarians or some of the staff . |
| 11 | When the direct collection of primary data is used in marketing research , the methods of survey ( interview , questionnaire , observation ) and the methods of sampling are broadly the same as for any ‘ domestic ’ marketing research exercise . |
| 12 | However , the speed of light is roughly the same in the cornea as in water , and so a fish 's cornea simply protects the eye without bending the light . |
| 13 | An example of this was the Michelson-Morley experiment , performed in 1887 , which showed that the speed of light was always the same , no matter how the source or the observer was moving . |
| 14 | However , in 1887 a careful experiment carried out by Michelson and Morley showed that the speed of light was always the same . |
| 15 | It is sometimes argued that the loss of lambs is partly the shepherd 's fault : that greater care for the flock would cut down losses to predators . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 17 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 19 | In short , the loss of children is often the major adjustment of middle age for women , equivalent in its impact to the loss of employment for men . |
| 20 | Yet a loss of jobs was often the pre-condition of restored viability . |
| 21 | Delayed gastric emptying as a result of gastroparesis is probably the best known and most extensively evaluated motor disturbance of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients . |
| 22 | Information acquired by an employee which becomes part of his general skills and stock of knowledge is not the subject of an obligation of confidentiality although during the term of the employment it may be a breach of the employee 's duty of good faith to disclose it to third parties . |
| 23 | Considerations of rationality are not the same as considerations of historical reality . |
| 24 | The difference in technique between all styles of grafting is simply the shape in which both the rootstocks and the vinestocks are cut , the prime purpose being to present the largest possible growing surface between the two canes . |
| 25 | But the pedagogic methodology of application is not the same kind of operation as the conventional research methodology of selective observation and controlled experiment . |
| 26 | Pandora is a publishing house which made its name by encouraging first-time writers — successes include Jeanette Winterson , authors of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit . |
| 27 | Olaf of Norway was not the only sea-lord , veteran of countless shipboard battles and raids , to find a straightforward land-conflict beyond him . |
| 28 | The only indication of change is when the juveniles move off to commence feeding . |
| 29 | The second is that for many EFL teachers , the material and tangible aspects of employment are not the only standards they apply . |
| 30 | These are more than coincidences : there was much that Greek Sicily and Greek Cyrene had in common , patronage of Pindar being only the most obvious and symbolic link . |