Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Groups of sensilla at the base of the halteres are stimulated by deformations of the integument when the halteres vibrate and the resulting pattern of nervous impulses is modified by the addition of torques due to the turning movements of the fly .
2 For example , it receives payments of taxes due to the government and pays out interest to the holders of the National Debt .
3 Early the next morning , two coaches set-off from the County Hall on a six hour trip to visit a number of the sites that were connected with the Tirpitz raids .
4 Since it acquired Tace Plc and Goring Kerr Plc in 1991 , it has focussed less and less on its former core defence activities due to the near collapse of the defence industry .
5 That the provision of egalitarian welfare was also implicitly a means of social control emerges clearly : ‘ The Peruvian government knew how to hold in check passions destructive of the social order and to prevent the revival of primitive anarchy .
6 They would see that it has inherited the cruel and violent tendencies inherent in the origins it shares with Judaism .
7 But the movement for political rights overlooked the immensely conservative tendencies inherent in the structure of the surrounding society and particularly the institution of the family .
8 One major factor acted to contain the divisive tendencies inherent in the prevailing group orientation .
9 The emotions which grew within emerging humanity brought conflicts due to the widely varying natures of different peoples and different individuals .
10 The former was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises .
11 Section 1(1) refers to dangers due to the state of the premises or things done or omitted to be done on them .
12 Prior to the Act the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty , which was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises , and the activity duty , which was concerned with the occupier 's activities on his premises .
13 He looked down and saw he had battered his fingers bloody against the wooden lid .
14 Estimates of the number of adults with cystic fibrosis in different age groups alive at the middle of 1990 were obtained from the United Kingdom Cystic Fibrosis Survey ( J Dodge , personal communication ) .
15 After 3 minutes pre-incubation at the appropriate temperature , the reaction was started by the addition of ATP at a final concentration of 2mM .
16 Above all else the guiding principle is to tease out the meanings inherent in the images ; to ask : " What 's important here ? "
17 He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age .
18 When a form is used in a context it eliminates the meanings possible to that context other than those the form can signal : the context eliminates from consideration the meanings possible to the form other than those the context can support .
19 He must prepare for payment all accounts due from the local authority and must in his turn , collect for the authority all sums due from time to time to the local authority particularly in regard to the collection of rates .
20 A few peaks due to the excitation of overtones of vibrations of lower symmetry ( e.g. 2ν 9 ) can also be seen , but the main feature of the spectrum is a set of progressions in ν 1 , with or without excitation of one of the other a 1g modes .
21 Thirdly , it wished to co-ordinate all anti-fascist groups supportive of the Republican government into one single movement .
22 Normally under a hire purchase agreement as soon as the hirer pays off all moneys due under the agreement , the goods become the hirer 's property .
23 They are becoming increasingly critical to aircraft maintenance operations due to the shortfalls in trained and skilled staff experienced by the aviation world .
24 An Unrepresented Nations and Peoples ' Organization ( UNPO ) claiming to represent those ethnic and minority groups unrecognized by the UN , was formally established in The Hague on Feb. 11 .
25 On Thursday , Murrays will offer buns iced in the three main party colours at seven of its shops in the Richmond and Darlington constituencies .
26 On the whole , these results are more reliable than those of previous investigations due to the vastly increased sample size .
27 To an amazing degree man has conquered the dangers inherent in the physical environment and has devised methods of protecting his family , his dwelling , his crops and his livestock .
28 But it is also an example of the dangers inherent in the assumption of positivist historians that , if enough facts are piled up , a changeless , timeless historical ‘ truth ’ will emerge .
29 The dangers inherent in the situation had been brought home to senior figures in the Reagan camp who had served in the Nixon administration .
30 Perceiving more clearly than most the dangers inherent in the darkening American situation , the Barclay brothers first gave up their commission merchant business and then gradually reduced their export trade to North America .
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