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 | Fights between skins were usually the result of some territorial infringement . |
| 4 | The space-economy for example is simply the spatial pattern of organization created by the industrial economy ; it is not an independent variable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , in 1887 a careful experiment carried out by Michelson and Morley showed that the speed of light was always the same . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet a loss of jobs was often the pre-condition of restored viability . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When rubbish pits are excavated , sherds of pottery and fragments of bone are frequently the only visible remains , because much of the refuse put into pits was the remnants of food preparation which have since decayed . |
| 23 | Superficially , the act of controlling for a variable which intervenes between the two original variables of interest is much the same . |
| 24 | The pleasure of eating is largely the pleasure of taste . |
| 25 | And although the basic conception of song-treatment is generally the same as in Walter 's collection ( four or five parts , melody usually in the tenor ) there is much more imitative polyphony and higher technical accomplishment . |
| 26 | Thus according to 1.7.2 the units in Q[x] are precisely the non-zero constant polynomials — and there are infinitely many of them . |
| 27 | The illustration of Clifton Hill with its icy reserve and its windows cut directly into the ashlar without surrounds is easily the most stylistically advanced in The Complete Body of Architecture that Ware published in 1756 to celebrate his life 's work . |
| 28 | To regain the confidence of athletes and public alike , tough action on drugs is now the only course open to the IAAF . |
| 29 | IF RAGS to riches is still the American dream , William Casey lived his own version of it . |
| 30 | The gynaecological department at Middlesbrough is now the leading unit in Britain , treating a variety of women with the latest technology and minimum surgery . |