Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grant payable depended upon the number of children who could read , write , and do arithmetic to the satisfaction of the individual inspector , and therefore it was not unnatural that every effort was made by the managers of the school , to see that the inspectors ’ tastes in such other matters as food and drink were duly considered when he visited them . |
| 2 | These pits represent cellular debris normal removed by the spleen . |
| 3 | The net assets at completion should include the amount of the ACT recoverable in respect of the dividend payments , provided that the total ACT recoverable included in the net assets at completion shall not exceed the amount which can be utilised against Group taxable profits for accounting periods ending on or before completion to [ date ] as reduced in respect of the profits for the period from completion to [ date ] . |
| 4 | The eerie stillness of a town asleep caught at the edges of her already stretched nerves , and she shivered with apprehension as well as from the biting wind . |
| 5 | Section 742(8) states that for the purposes of this section any body corporate incorporated outside the United Kingdom shall be treated as if it were resident outside the United Kingdom , whether it is so resident or not . |
| 6 | In October 1991 Amnesty International called for the release of 11 members of the South African human rights organization Black Sash , detained in the nominally independent ‘ homeland ’ of Bophuthatswana . |
| 7 | Amnesty International called on the Malian Government to halt the killings . |
| 8 | In July Amnesty International called on the Uzbek authorities to ensure that the incidents were fully investigated and that every effort was made to identify the persons responsible and bring them to justice . |
| 9 | On April 19 the human rights organization Amnesty International called on the Amir to intervene personally on behalf of hundreds of people detained on suspicion of collaborating with the Iraqis who , it claimed , were still being held in " deplorable conditions " . |
| 10 | On Feb. 3 both the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US section of Amnesty International called on the US government to reconsider its policy . |
| 11 | So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction , provided one views it on a scale large compared to the distance between galaxies , and ignores the differences on small scales . |
| 12 | This division of the space available allowed for the cultivation of their different tastes : whereas Minton listened to Billie Holiday as readily as Bach , Vaughan 's interests were more purely high-brow . |
| 13 | Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert 's great B flat Sonata . |
| 14 | It was not a glib doctrinal position simple culled from the inherited opinions of her own Christian forbears , but the result of many years study and patient listening to all that the African students and officers could teach . |
| 15 | The patchiness develops throughout the energy cascade ; as the eddies get smaller , so the fraction of the volume in which they are active decreases ( though the size of a patch is at each stage large compared with the corresponding eddy size ) . |