Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 2 | I also got so sick at waiting for the bits that happen after you get through setup |
| 3 | Though king and magnates depended ( as Chapter 2 showed ) on the labours of a vast peasant labour-force for the surpluses that sustained and funded their activities , their direct personal contact with peasants seems to have been rare , even within the lands they ruled most intensively . |
| 4 | Early antiquarians and archaeologists were greatly hampered by an almost complete lack of dating techniques for the sites and finds that they recorded and excavated . |
| 5 | We have seen that issues of causation and blameworthiness raise problems for the courts when deciding whether the plaintiff 's conduct was sufficiently serious to deserve a reduction in his entitlement to damages , or to deserve no damages at all . |
| 6 | It is the project manager 's task to define the key results areas , to set priorities for the contributions and to ensure that they are adhered to . |
| 7 | The deputy judge found for the plaintiffs and held that the 1986 document had not been validly executed and that the deceased had lacked testamentary capacity when it was made . |
| 8 | for the children that come and everything . |
| 9 | NATUC 's interim president Errol McCleod described the new organization as a " quantum leap forward " for the unions but cautioned that " miracles " should not be expected . |
| 10 | She was described as being ‘ distant ’ during the attacks but said that she was aware of her actions . |
| 11 | A cynic might define education as the notes that survive after you pass ( or fail ) your exams . |
| 12 | Harriet , being no fool , read between the lines and knew that Sidney had been got at by his stronger-minded and cynical other half . |
| 13 | The creation of special units as an administrative response to disaffection heightens the tension between the principles that operate when deviant behaviour is perceived and subsequently acted upon . |
| 14 | Goff J analysed the communications between the parties and held that no contract had been finalised . |
| 15 | He sheds the unrealistic assumptions of cardinality of utility and comparability between the individuals and argues that in an uncertain context the expected sum of utilities will be maximized by an equal distribution . |
| 16 | Kathy Page makes us think afresh about the lies that bind and the barriers that separate . |
| 17 | He said that he was generally optimistic about the plans and thought that Bassetlaw 's combined hospital and community trust was well set up to implement them , not least because the trust has good information systems . |
| 18 | Long years in the notorious Zomba prison followed , and in 1987 Banda apparently changed his mind about the commutations and declared that the Chirwas did not deserve clemency and should not be allowed to live . |
| 19 | You may have seen them walking through the woods and thought that they have a nice easy job . |
| 20 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 21 | They watched Rachaela off the premises and slammed and locked the door . |
| 22 | ‘ Let's do the rest of the experiments and see if you can prove me wrong . ’ |
| 23 | I was pleased to hear that you managed to obtain ten sets of the papers and confirm that both Neil and Geoffrey Sinclair already have a set . |
| 24 | The fabrication of an African persona is reflexive ; an extraordinary meditation on the self ; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious . |
| 25 | Reinforcing this quest for the extraordinary , which by definition should bring them quickly to the margins of deviance , is the fact … that one of the frequent rewards of achievement is an immunity to many of the sanctions that constrain and punish the less successful . |
| 26 | To recapitulate : I have discussed some of the problems that arise if one believes that everything in the universe is determined . |
| 27 | It is an act of faith of most brain scientists , including , as must be obvious by now , this one , that an understanding of the brain will lead to an understanding of behaviour and of the processes that control and underpin behaviour , some of which are conscious and some unconscious , but which taken together correspond to the folk-psychological term ‘ mind ’ . |
| 28 | ( vi ) Conveyance or transfer by husband to wife , not within s83 , with element of gift — no monetary consideration Although hardly within the circumstances mentioned in this book , such a conveyance does avoid a charge to stamp duty by virtue of the Regulations and provided that it is a conveyance or transfer of property operating as a voluntary disposition inter vivos for no consideration in money or money 's worth nor any consideration referred to in s57 of the Stamp Act 1891 ( conveyance in consideration of a debt etc ) . |
| 29 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 30 | To understand it we shall need to know the special characteristics of the groups that create and use it . ’ |