Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the toxic effects of aluminium on fish are complex and , if the calcium content of the water is high , its ions are preferentially adsorbed on the gill surfaces where they block the absorption of aluminium ions and so reduce their impact ( Mason , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Go to almost any city and you find sink estates where you get the feeling that the council hates the place and the people too . |
| 3 | You can find hidden Greek tavernas where you explore the kitchens and choose your meal from what 's in the fridge or bubbling on the stove . |
| 4 | Our growth projects will be in sectors where we enjoy the advantage of efficient technology and low-cost feedstocks . |
| 5 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 6 | Many would-be claimants are so afraid of going into solicitors ' offices that they try the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau ( CAB ) first . |
| 7 | It was as commander of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards that he won the DSO at the Battle of Tumbledown during the Falklands campaign . |
| 8 | Roughly speaking , chapters in the present alternate with chapters from earlier periods , cast in such different styles that they emphasize the novel 's formal discontinuity . |
| 9 | Trading Standards however important , and Trading Standards is very important , erm , when you 're getting down to erm , reductions in equipment and uniforms and men , then lives are at risk , it is really a matter of er , er , of , of for our fire fighters that they have the right equipment and the right uniform and when it actually comes down , you ca n't compare that to maybe reductions in Trading Standards . |
| 10 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 11 | But the King for prevention of offences may by proclamation admonish his subjects that they keep the laws , and do not offend them ; upon punishment to be inflicted by the law , & c . |
| 12 | It must be a phrase or short sentence , and include words that you feel the children need to learn to spell , e.g. " The sun is really shining . " |
| 13 | Erm and although I will briefly go through some technical ones erm motion number two to erm er because it 's in relation to growth savings that we have the differences between the budgets and which are actually being er proposed and er I suppose we do need to go through number six carefully as well about structural maintenance funds . |
| 14 | Well , I did n't think it was anything but rudeness and I ca n't stand bad manners so I got the next train back and left him there . |
| 15 | An analysis of the concept of ontological existent , as we saw , brings certain other categories into focus with which this concept is structurally interlinked and demands that we widen the scope of our investigation . |
| 16 | William Waldegrave , the health secretary , rejected nurses ' demands that he delay the government 's NHS reforms because patients ( they said ) are suffering . |
| 17 | Holly pushed his feet beneath the steel plate and the wind caught at his socks and trousers and drove a channelled wind against his legs and he cursed the awkwardness of his overcoat , and his feet kicked in the space like the feet of a hanging man . |
| 18 | Melanie took her legs and I took the bows and we struggled up the steps , Carol 's bum hitting most of them , which I reckoned Melanie was doing deliberately . |
| 19 | DBMS are therefore expected to support multiple linked lists if they adopt the list processing method of file organisation . |
| 20 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 21 | The unlucky ones who did n't drown were eaten by crocodiles in the water , and by scorpions and snakes if they reached the shore . " |
| 22 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 23 | Each time the line is paid out , the kite will begin to sink as its airspeed is decreased , so only release the line in stages and allow the kite to climb in these steps until you have the final height you want . |
| 24 | A slight sparkle came to Maggie 's eyes and he recognised the signs of growing annoyance . |
| 25 | I think about buying some fags but the headache 's still there behind my eyes and I have the feeling smoking a cigarette would make me want to throw up . |
| 26 | A shutter came down over his eyes and she had the sensation of having had a door slam very firmly in her face . |
| 27 | But we 're not saying is the pipe-work and the little waterways if you see the machine you 'll understand more . |
| 28 | Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space . |
| 29 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 30 | How do you , friends , change a structure which is still the old structure with a civil service , a security and everything that goes with it and move to one of democracy and justice because if you move too rapidly and you do not make concessions and you ignore the terrible power of the right wing with all the military might at its disposal you can very easily create in South Africa a Lebanon or indeed , yes , a Yugoslavia . |