Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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1 | To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills . |
2 | When the direct collection of primary data is used in marketing research , the methods of survey ( interview , questionnaire , observation ) and the methods of sampling are broadly the same as for any ‘ domestic ’ marketing research exercise . |
3 | Considerations of rationality are not the same as considerations of historical reality . |
4 | The difference in technique between all styles of grafting is simply the shape in which both the rootstocks and the vinestocks are cut , the prime purpose being to present the largest possible growing surface between the two canes . |
5 | Pandora is a publishing house which made its name by encouraging first-time writers — successes include Jeanette Winterson , authors of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit . |
6 | The second is that for many EFL teachers , the material and tangible aspects of employment are not the only standards they apply . |
7 | When rubbish pits are excavated , sherds of pottery and fragments of bone are frequently the only visible remains , because much of the refuse put into pits was the remnants of food preparation which have since decayed . |
8 | Superficially , the act of controlling for a variable which intervenes between the two original variables of interest is much the same . |
9 | And indeed in some cases of conversation , the maintenance of rapport , the sharing of affective territory , the achievement of mutually acceptable states of mind is not the means towards an effective communicative transaction but the very object of the interaction itself . |
10 | The Houses of Parliament are also the final arbiters of the tenure of office of judges of the Supreme Court . |
11 | These five groups of cases are perhaps the most important . |
12 | The fight to save particular buildings or groups of buildings is not the fancy of some impractical antiquarian . |
13 | The courts of law are undoubtedly the chief repository of the judicial power notwithstanding that they no longer exercise a monopoly in this respect . |
14 | Lotze 's account of how these ‘ auxiliary impressions ’ became signs of location is much the same as Ryle 's . |
15 | Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's . |
16 | For all that these strategies can cause irritation , though , their value lies in the implication — a world away from the commonsense views of Miller and Swift — that the surface meanings of words are only the tip of a massive iceberg . |
17 | In the latter case we apply the figure differently ; the rules of projection are not the same . |
18 | It appears from this case ( see also Long v Lloyd [ 1958 ] 1 WLR 753 ) that the rules of acceptance are substantially the same as those applicable in cases of breach of condition ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
19 | Nothing follows at once , because the formal rules of chess are not the only ones . |
20 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
21 | The progressive appearance of ever-higher forms of life was not the result of blindly operating natural laws , but the step-by-step unfolding of a preordained pattern that the Creator had built into the universe . |
22 | The APU fairs even worse with regard to consultation ; for example the six lines of development were not the subject of debate when they were initially proposed . |
23 | The errors of PS are not the main point . |
24 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
25 | Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research . |
26 | But the particular circumstances of Corbett are not the only , or the real , problem . |
27 | The unquestioning acceptance of Kollwitz ‘ diary and letters as literal transcriptions of events is perhaps the most common presumption in all the literature . |
28 | However , the motivations behind the actual physical building of churches and places of worship are not the outcome only of simple faith . |
29 | For dessert , pieces of fruit are generally the best option . |
30 | It does not need great intelligence or ‘ professionalism ’ to realise that the dispersal of those kinds of books is not the same thing as clearing popular fiction . |