Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is analogous to the complexity of computers where the signals are essentially noughts and ones but the response depends on previous events . |
| 2 | All too often the change of conditions when the sale is made and the fish is taken home , is all that is needed finally to send the unfortunate creature to that great big goldfish bowl in the sky . |
| 3 | It is difficult to assess market value particularly in relation to goodwill ; much time can be spent in arguing about the measure of damages when the parties ought to simply concentrate on establishing whether or not the breach occurred . |
| 4 | Easy to defend , with its walls still existing , and the two rivers , and of course , with resources , with fuel and war effort , and the kind of buildings where the king could form a court . |
| 5 | Formal objections are not invited at this consultation stage as a further period will be allowed for the submission of objections when the proposals are formally advertised . |
| 6 | On Nov. 9 , FIS leaders threatened " to reject dialogue " with the government , accusing it of hindering the work of councils where the FIS had won a majority of seats in the June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 7 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , pupils should be helped to recognise that words with related meanings may have related spellings and that this can sometimes be an aid in the spelling of words where the sound alone does not provide sufficient information . |
| 8 | Finally , the emergence of pools where the fully-fledged candidates could be identified was raised . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most striking difference between the northern and southern islands is in the distribution of mountains where the high series of peaks ( averaging 550 m above sea level ) of north Harris and south Lewis have no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 10 | That set them off again , Harbury enthusiastically reciting the string of reasons why the police had questioned Tavett several times ; Oliver throwing in that Tavett might have known about it but Pascoe must have done it ; Zak saying it was political assassination and nothing to do with the staff of the paper ; Holly reminding him that Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist branch had found nothing to support that ; and Rosie hushing the clamour because her telephone was ringing . |
| 11 | The studies led to the revelation of reasons why the programme was less successful than it might have been . |
| 12 | But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 13 | The group of countries where the Swedes felt most alien were Central Europe , Africa and the Middle East , and where they felt less alien was in Latin America , while by far the most important factor was the happiness of the spouse . |
| 14 | Consider the transformation of axes where the are as usual , the direction cosines of this pure rotation of axes . |
| 15 | On the evidence of opinion-swings when the bombing of Iraq began , this wo n't prevent the public from cheering lustily when Bush orders the bombers to take off . |
| 16 | There was a subdued ‘ clanging ’ from Henderson 's Shipyard at Meadowside to the left , and the passengers waiting for the ferry on the Govan side at Water Row , could see the glow of fires where the boilermakers were busy putting the finishing touches to the Anchor Line 's new flagship , the Columbia . |
| 17 | If the age of 65 + was adopted as the definition of geriatrics then the NHS should be renamed the National Geriatric Medicine Service . |
| 18 | Thus a hire-purchase agreement is an agreement for the bailment of goods whereby the bailee has an option to purchase them . |
| 19 | But we can surely reconstruct the pattern of events whereby the lectures did become the basis of the book that in fact materialized . |
| 20 | The establishment of the idea that the telling of the truth is thus subject to standards set by the use of a volume which is part history and part fiction , is almost tantamount to condoning the telling of untruths when the ritual is omitted , or at least making it much easier to justify such behaviour . |
| 21 | Of the various neutrophil functions — namely adherence , aggregation , orientation , locomotion , and chemotaxis — few are better defined and understood than the sequence of events when the neurtophil comes into contact with a chemoattractant . |
| 22 | In Champagne this is normally countered by the selection of highly resident rootstock varieties and through the choice of sites where the chalk is thinly covered by drift or where man has added rich sandy or clayey lignite soils to the surface . |
| 23 | He gestured at the row of chairs where the offenders lolled . |
| 24 | The good news is that , even in the minority of cases where the only solution is to leave your job and try your luck elsewhere , it is unusual for a dispute to arise that is so serious that you finish up in front of a judge or an industrial tribunal . |
| 25 | Equally , it must be apparent from the statement of reasons how the court has approached its duty under section 25 or indeed whatever section or sections of the Act of 1989 with which they are concerned . |
| 26 | When Simon pressed and won his claim for an assistant inspector to supervise the national vaccination scheme in 1871 , the current permanent secretary , Ralph Lingen , issued a general warning in the accompanying minute : ‘ I do not know who is to check the assertion of experts when the government has once undertaken a class of duties which none but such persons understand . ’ |
| 27 | She ran as hard as she could across the muddy field , across the rickety bridge , and finally collapsed beyond the line of oaks where the stream curved round to mark the boundary of the colonel 's property . |
| 28 | The number of surfaces where the test applies is extremely limited and includes : |
| 29 | Hd ( x , y ) is the number of positions where the two tuples have different entries . |
| 30 | The number of families where the head of household faced an implicit marginal tax rate greater than 70% in fact doubled after 1988 to over half a million . |