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 .
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