Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed . |
| 2 | If the Caucasus had been easier to control or the Khan of Khiva less suspicious , the western shore of the Caspian might have become the embarkation point for central Asia . |
| 3 | The absence of macroscopic oesophagitis or the presence of erythema only . |
| 4 | Issues such as the abolition of capital punishment or the legislation on abortion inevitably revealed a picture of an open , competitive pattern of politics where the state was often content to sit back and referee the group struggle . |
| 5 | These marvellous towers may a little represent the pride of the landlord-citizens or the arrogance of families recently enriched ; but they certainly reflect the aspirations of many of the lesser cities in their heyday — and many of the greater too ; what is peculiar to San Gimignano is that a group of towers survive . |
| 6 | Nearby , you can visit the waterfall at Sillans where brave bathers plunge into the rocky pools or the caves at Villecroze once inhabited by monks . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , absence from an examination or the non-completion of coursework often results in the award of a fail grade . |
| 8 | He wants to grasp the nature or the practice of ideology scientifically and characterizes ‘ ideology ’ as whole , unified by its problematic and dependent on the social situation in which it occurs . |
| 9 | It was what anyone would say , anyone used to politics or business or the world of affairs generally . |
| 10 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |
| 11 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 12 | For an investor in bookish securities , the greatest potential rewards remain concentrated in my view in publishing , where the element of magic still applies . |
| 13 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 14 | It is not simply that these areas suffer from deprivation and poverty , but there is a danger of many outer estates , in particular , becoming areas which have a quite different social and economic system , operating almost at subsistence level , depending entirely on the public sector , where the opportunities for improvement either through self-help or through outside intervention are minimal . |
| 15 | The BMWs slowly roll down the impressive new production line where the team of mechanics eagerly await their arrival — so they can carefully take the cars to pieces . |
| 16 | In order to construct an arbitrage transaction where the number of futures exactly offsets the basket of shares in the index , it is necessary to be able to hold shares or futures in fractional quantities , which is not possible . |
| 17 | Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions . |
| 18 | In the same year Sir Thomas Roe went as English representative in turn to The Hague , Copenhagen and Königsberg ( where the Elector of Brandenburg then was ) before also helping with the Swedish–Polish negotiations . |
| 19 | The big world of geopolitics , where the truth about Lockerbie probably lies , demands the presence of the troupe elsewhere . |
| 20 | Even where the credit market is fully competitive and suffers no distortions , it may be judged that the price of credit so resulting is excessive and socially unacceptable . |
| 21 | The Guardian disclosed in July that the Ministry of Agriculture secretly agreed to an investigation as soon as the US findings were known . |
| 22 | It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed . |
| 23 | But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy . |
| 24 | Poverty and suffering has reached such levels in rural areas that the trend from mothers now is to commit suicide . |
| 25 | It was upon serfdom that the critics of Tsarism rapidly came to focus their attention . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the range of powers thus exercised need be comprehensive . |
| 27 | They could also describe children being sent individually or in small groups , to forage for information on particular topics , and in the case of the school which monitored library use , the school could demonstrate that the range of subjects thus represented was considerable . |
| 28 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 29 | It was known that a change was taking place and Perhaps it was felt the more because of the very success of the Concert ; humanitarian impulses and liberal assumptions had disguised the fact , axiomatic to professional diplomats , that the interests of states often conflicted . |
| 30 | Although they too nominally subscribed to Calvinist theology , it seems unlikely that the doctrine of predestination ever made more than the most superficial inroads into their collective consciousness . |