Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 2 | A number of commissioned reports provided opportunities for consultants to bring together the disciplines of planning , architecture , and road engineering to suggest new forms of urban layout . |
| 3 | Motivated partly by political considerations , partly by educational theory only indirectly political in content , teachers and the trainers of teachers rejected absolutely the idea that education should be directed towards any service or economic end . |
| 4 | There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 . |
| 5 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 6 | When the forest is gone , the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated , and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted . |
| 7 | Lawyers and supporters of the parents in Orkney questioned both the motives and the methods of this once trusted organisation . |
| 8 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 9 | Between them , these two kinds of fish possessed both the essential abilities that the ancient land-exploring fish must have required . |
| 10 | The Vatican and the French government both made efforts during June to bring together the Hrawi regime and the rival regime of Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , who had vehemently opposed the Taif Accord when it was accepted by the majority of Lebanese MPs in October 1989 . |
| 11 | Centralized state control of the economy had proved grossly inefficient , fostered privilege and corruption , and given rise to a ‘ totalitarian ’ party dictatorship whose terrifying powers of coercion controlled even the innermost thoughts of its citizens . |
| 12 | However , the deficiency of H is clear , and there are no plausible means by which H can be retained in the interior in substantially greater quantities than C and N. In section 4.4.3 certain difficulties were noted of Venus losing to space large quantities of H. To these difficulties must now be added the difficulty that if Venus has lost large quantities of H to space then the Earth , with its warm exosphere and Mars with its low gravitational field , should also have lost large quantities of H. This supports the conclusion that Venus has always been deficient in H , but it does not help explain why . |
| 13 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 14 | With strong evidence that the disclosures to date represent only the tip of the iceberg , the State President 's claim that a commission of inquiry would create a climate of distrust verges on self-parody . |
| 15 | For further information about commercial art galleries in Cologne see both the Around the Galleries section of this paper ( p.21 ) and the profiles of eight leading gallery owners in the last issue of the paper ( No. 18 , May 1992 , p.20 ) . |
| 16 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
| 17 | The research seeks to quantify these changes at the local scale and assess their significance for population redistribution rates in order to gauge better the geographical implications of anticipated trends in population structure . |
| 18 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 19 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 20 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 21 | Again , there were no differences in trials using either the 21 item scale ( mean difference 0.147 ; -0.597 to 0.891 ) or the 17 item scale ( 0.727 , 0.083 to 1.370 ) . |
| 22 | But ‘ allocations to sectors based on measures of use have only the most tenuous relationship with cost generation ’ ( MMC 1980 : 27 ) and are essentially arbitrary . |
| 23 | The candidature of two Whigs in tandem lost both the election , and in 1813 Creevey was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes and fined £100 . |
| 24 | New issues in Paris remain largely the preserve of French houses . |
| 25 | But surprisingly perhaps , it was not the major influence on David Steel 's image ; and David Owen 's image was influenced more by Labour partisanship than by Alliance partisanship : the hostility of Labour partisans towards Owen exceeded even the affection of Alliance partisans for him ( Table 8.3 ) . |
| 26 | The earliest textile mills were similar to the traditional water-powered flour mills because they consisted of load-bearing masonry external walls and wooden floors held up by timber posts or cast-iron columns and often occupied equally remote rural locations in order to exploit fully the power provided by the rushing streams of narrow Pennine valleys . |
| 27 | This was subsequently withdrawn in order to incorporate provisions enabling the construction of alternative feeding grounds for birds displaced once the barrage was constructed . |
| 28 | There was row upon row of rooms and carpeted corridors , revealed by their tensely-held torches , the ghostly yellow pools of light allowing only the objects that slid in and out of them to be examined . |
| 29 | A wise precaution was to send out a party equipped with bundles of brushwood to sweep away the tracks leading to the encampment . |
| 30 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |