Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commonest problem with central heating pumps is jamming , either after a period when the pump has not been used , or due to sludge in the system clogging the impeller . |
| 2 | Amphoteric detergents : ionise in solution with the active ion being either cationic or anionic according to the pH of the solution . |
| 3 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 4 | Whether this interference is constructive or destructive depends on the optical path difference , and so the pattern of bright and dark bands reflects the pattern of constant density surfaces ( in a two-dimensional flow configuration ) . |
| 5 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 6 | These figures could be ten times higher or lower depending on the circumstances . |
| 7 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 8 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 9 | Marriage is a loving , caring relationship where each thinks of the other 's good and this is especially important in relation to sex . |
| 10 | The school day should be extended for older pupils , with many activities currently classed as voluntary or extra-curricular brought within the normal working framework of the school timetable . |
| 11 | These reports sent them bustling off to organize air tickets to the head of the Gulf , designating it Persian or Arabian according to the nationality of the airline or the destination selected , to check out the situation and track down flesh with which to clothe the bare bones . |
| 12 | Their winter homes were log cabins , either free-standing or half sunk in the earth and covered with turf . |
| 13 | Ceramic tiles-which can be continued up the space between counter top and unit to make a handsome splashback-come in a huge range of colours and designs and can look spectacular , gentle or fresh depending on the effect you want . |
| 14 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 15 | Money raised will be used to enable women who are low-waged or unemployed to go on the Delegation ( which is in March ) . |
| 16 | Where some saw in the Hermetic texts an anticipation of Christianity , Bruno saw an alternative . |
| 17 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 18 | In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study , where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual 's social world , this contrast is often explicit . |
| 19 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 20 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 21 | They do n't just give up at 25 or 30 to worry about the children . |
| 22 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 23 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 24 | Almost all of what was said about this in Chapter 3 is relevant wherever TNCs create jobs , but there are some additional factors to be considered where this occurs in the Third World . |
| 25 | Vols. 1 & 2 consist of the two Janźček Cypresses ( ) and the two Smetana Quartets with some Dvořák miniatures ) . |
| 26 | How often a sudden aroma can take us back to an earlier time in our lives and cause us to feel happy or sad depending on the memories aroused . |
| 27 | Whiskers sometimes grow by accident from the surface of metals and if the metal happens to be part of an electrical device then there is likely to be a short circuit which will be annoying , expensive or dangerous according to the circumstances ( Plate 9 ) . |
| 28 | By allowing experiments to be performed on a computer which would be impractical or dangerous to perform in the physical world , it also allows the design engineer to probe new areas . |
| 29 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 30 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |