Example sentences of "[det] is [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saving throws for troops is not given on their profile because this is variable depending on the armour they wear . |
| 2 | This is easy to understand for the river dolphins , which feed on individual prey on the river bottom , but the habits of beaked whales remain almost a total mystery . |
| 3 | Q I have often admired large shoals of Yellow Tangs , but people seem to be divided as to whether this is possible to achieve in the hole aquarium . |
| 4 | This is all coming from the heart , |
| 5 | This is due to open in the Main Hall on 31 May and among the exhibits will be a gold cup and cover , by Ker and Dempster of Edinburgh . |
| 6 | This is due to close by the mid-1990s and BNF is unlikely to have replacement reactors ready until several years after this . |
| 7 | This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels . |
| 8 | This is necessary to allow for the fact that the module relationships of a package may change by the addition of new module/packages or the removal of others , or both . |
| 9 | Red is used by one major manufacturer but this is difficult to reconcile with the use of the same colour for acid products . |
| 10 | This is unlikely to happen in the immediate future . |
| 11 | This is likely to commence in the third week of September . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , informal care by families faces considerable pressure at present and this is likely to intensify during the 1990s . |
| 13 | Currently the domestic sector is nearly 60% supplied by natural gas and this is likely to increase during the remainder of the century as it becomes more widely available . |
| 14 | In the modern industrial world , more and more people are feeling a need to find out about their immediate and distant past , and this is likely to increase in the future . |
| 15 | However , this being said , the trend towards concentration of capital is very rapid in the industry and this is likely to increase in the near future . |
| 16 | For example , it has been held that an arrangement void for contravention of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 constitutes unlawful means but this is hard to reconcile with the clear decision in the Mogul case that an agreement in restraint of trade at common law did not . |
| 17 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 18 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 19 | All three cities are multicultural and multiethnic , though this is hard to capture in the statistics and the mix varies from city to city . |
| 20 | Such legislative changes are seen as necessary ( by government in particular ) to curb abuses of privilege ( by improper disclosure of information ) and confidentiality , and more is likely to get onto the statute books as appreciation and concern grows of the power and damage that information can wield . |
| 21 | The same is likely to apply to the second group . |
| 22 | In this uninterrupted narrative of rowdyism and mischief running through the writings of these Christian youth workers in the 1920s and 1930s , it is not only the behaviour itself that is difficult to reconcile with the nostalgia which has come to settle around postwar perceptions of pre-war social realities . |
| 23 | ‘ Subliminal ’ advertising , which was most publicly ‘ exposed ’ in Vance Packard 's The Hidden Persuaders , is advertising that is supposed to work below the threshold of consciousness : a message flashed for a fraction of a second on a cinema screen was , it was alleged , able to increase sales of popcorn very significantly , even though no one in the audience could have taken it in — or , indeed , remembered it . |
| 24 | Both authors argue for a stylistic analysis that recognises the inherently dialogic nature of all kinds of discourse , and that is able to discriminate between the multiplicity of voices and ideological accents that characterise not only the language of the novel , but also that of poetry and drama . |
| 25 | Since both individuals consume whatever quantity of the good is produced , we must add up vertically the price each is prepared to pay for the last unit . |