Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt that a GIS approach has wide applicability in all sorts of location problems where the goal is to minimize ( rather than , as conventionally , maximize ) accessibility to a population . |
| 2 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 3 | Much of the resetting of the lunar radiometric clocks is probably the result of impact heating , except that if the mare basalt samples are chips off lava infill then the resetting here would correspond to the solidification of geologically produced lavas . |
| 4 | The movements of water affect both the surface structure of the land ( its topography ) ; the overall climate ; and the day-to-day weather . |
| 5 | All three are — or , in the case of railways , have become — essentially light catering markets ; and in such markets profitability , the watchword of the times , calls for selling made-up products like plate meals or filled rolls , rather than retail lines like chocolate bars where the scope for mark-up is obviously small . |
| 6 | The method will be applicable in very general circumstances including sample periods when the economy is initially very far from its steady state and even cases in which the model is dynamically unstable . |
| 7 | According to the energy campaigner of Friends of the Earth , Simon Roberts , " with this year 's applications for wind power alone the government could meet a quarter of its total target for the year 2000 " . |
| 8 | There is no need to apply a means test to applicants for council houses when the building industry has been freed : the lists and the tenancies will ‘ sort themselves out ’ . |
| 9 | If you make any change to your booking within 6 weeks of departure date then the change will be treated as a cancellation and the cancellation charges shown in paragraph 4 will apply . |
| 10 | This chapter looks at the limited right of challenge to the validity of an expert 's decision , and explains : ( 1 ) that it is the parties to a contract who get involved in various kinds of court proceedings where the validity of the decision is challenged , and not the expert ( 13.2 ) ; ( 2 ) the grounds for challenge ( 13.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the earlier history of the law of mistake in expert determination ( 13.4 ) ; ( 4 ) more recent developments ( 13.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the current position ( 13.6 ) ; ( 6 ) speaking and non-speaking decisions ( 13.7 ) ; ( 7 ) points of law ( 13.8 ) ; ( 8 ) construction of documents ( 13.9 ) ; ( 9 ) various other aspects of mistake ( 13.10 – 13.13 ) ; and ( 10 ) the future of the doctrine ( 13.14 ) . |
| 11 | However , if droplets of helium form then the random collisions of atoms and molecules on the droplet largely cancel out whilst the tendency for gravitational separation rises in proportion to the number of atoms in the droplet . |
| 12 | Now the path ran through heather high above the burn , past circular sheepfolds long disused and over the stony beds of side streams where the grass hung smooth and inviting , concealing ankle-breaking drops . |
| 13 | Inglis ( 1965 ) summarised data which showed that among individuals with memory defects only the number of items recalled from the second ear differed from the number recalled by normal control subjects , whereas recall from the initial ear was similar for both groups . |
| 14 | And after these peoples , others had come : now and then , Davide passed , in a clearing in the grove , a stone hut , white and conical in shape , like the turbans of the Saracens who were overlords here long ago and who built these shelters for summer days when the heat in the grove swelled too burstingly to bear . |
| 15 | The men were working on the hard shoulder installing cables for emergency telephones when the lorry jacknifed . |
| 16 | Certainly the first signs from other areas in which the Government have been allowed to carry out such schemes show that there will be considerable problems for transport users when the changes are introduced . |
| 17 | On the supply side , the main sources of equity investment notably the Business Expansion Scheme , the venture capital industry and the Unlisted Securities Market are aimed at larger ‘ small ’ businesses . |
| 18 | For launches with the space shuttle , however , underwriters are concluding deals with satellite operators where the premium is set at just 5 per cent . |
| 19 | We propose to allow judges to settle the level of damages in libel cases where the defendant offers to pay to make amends . |
| 20 | Interestingly , a 12-hour day is regularly being practised in those countries where an afternoon siesta is taken , and also by those watch-keepers on merchant ships where the shift pattern of the officers is often 4 hours work followed by 8 hours leisure and sleep , the combination being undertaken twice each 24 hours . |
| 21 | Stuart , who needs the same liver and bowel transplant as Laura Davies of Manchester , had been out with Shelley and her boyfriend John Moore for just two hours on Boxing Day when the vandals struck . |
| 22 | You need to be warned that seats on the Santa Specials are at a premium during the weekends of Christmas week when the railway is enterprisingly capitalising on the school holiday period as well as the season of celebrations . |
| 23 | A quite separate area of interest has been the question of actuarial advice on pensions in divorce cases where the law in Scotland requires that the value of pensions is taken into consideration and could be the model for a change in English law . |
| 24 | Miller ( forthcoming ) reports that Scottish English , unlike standard English , allows the omission of subject relative pronouns in sentence types where the subject of the main clause is realized as there : |
| 25 | The two types of mirror look much the same after being buried for centuries , but when the microstructure is examined at high magnification , as in Figures 5.15e and f , it is possible to distinguish between tinned bronze and the high-tin alloy . |
| 26 | Another is that of a broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is acting for B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency . |
| 27 | Returning to the example given earlier of the broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is advising B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency , the question arises as to what the firm must divulge to A in order to modify its duty of undivided loyalty to A to the extent necessary to permit it to withhold the information about B. |