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

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1 The method may also be applied to breaking rock or concrete on sites where the application of explosives would be impracticable or undesirable .
2 Other estimates suggest that casualties in accidents where the driver is over the limit could be in excess of 35,000 annually .
3 Indeed , there is a powerful school of thought within the profession of financial analysis that earnings per share indeed the figure for earnings itself — is an analytical tool , and , therefore , that analysts have a very significant contribution to make in the calculations involved .
4 There are language-systems , he points out , within which that characteristic of English whereby the utterer is not obliged to commit himself as to the truth of his utterance is not to be found ; in such systems the utterer is obliged to commit himself .
5 Electronics millionaire Alan Sugar , who made a fortune selling hi-fis and computers at prices even the Japanese could not match , is planning to buy back his Amstrad company from investors .
6 Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever .
7 She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress .
8 Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather .
9 Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement .
10 By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies .
11 She knew what was right and wrong in fabrics just the same as she did in life , there were no grey areas . ’
12 We have discussed , reflected and considered on the one hand , the impact of the lack of democracy and respect for human rights in our countries , and on the other , the restrictions of the free flow of information and access to media whereby the majority of African peoples are deprived of opportunities for self expression and full participation in the development process and nation building .
13 As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) .
14 In the ensuing skirmish , bullets struck Richard Baxter 's door and windows until midnight when the fighting stopped .
15 If it 's courage it takes to put sports cars and coupes into production then the product planners at Mazda deserve a medal .
16 They planted shrubs and flowers in beds where the walls were , and put gravel inside the rooms and pieces of slate where the staircase was .
17 Sand and rock carried by the water helped to erode the limestone further and to chisel out cave passages and chambers in areas where the rock was particularly weak .
18 Needham had previously become Rector of Claughton in Lancashire , and because he could not be both Rector there and Master in Stockport simultaneously the Goldsmiths had required him to resign from the School .
19 So is this apathy and lack of interest not the result of a political system which dissuades people from taking an active role .
20 In fact the pollution control officer has as indices of activity neither the policeman 's arrest rate nor the evidence which some other compliance system enforcement agents can exploit , such as the dollar amounts recovered by consumer protection officers ( Silbey , 1978 ) .
21 The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) .
22 Right why should we be bothered about protectionism y'know why is G A T so important presumably there must be gainers as well as losers from protectionism so the gainers and the losers domestic farmers gainers or losers ?
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