Key to Kibbitzer 48: The or no The?1

  1. Figure 3.11 shows a representative set of results from an experiment using the flame-aversion paradigm
  2. For the better part of a century, professional philosophy has been out to "naturalise" mental phenomena by reducing them to physical entities and/or relationships.
  3. He compiled a chronicle of world history, fitting together the calculations of Greek chroniclers with the indications of date foumd in the Bible.
  4. 'There is a real possibility of affecting the ageing process with biomedical intervention.'
  5. Aspects of the Irish constitution and its implementation are clearly oppressive as well as offensive to other minorities beside the Protestant one.
  6. Members of the working party agreed that some use of animals in biomedical research is necessary.
  7. The radical restructuring of British politics after 1931 lies not in the events of 13th-28th August but in the changing attitudes within the National Government during September and October 1931.
  8. As stars move, the Doppler effect changes the wavelength of the radiation they emit.
  9. Ever since the Industrial Revolution created a mass urban society, the conditions of the poorest city dwellers has given rise to anxiety among the better-off.
  10. The theory of natural selection first propounded by Charles Darwin (1958) is a cornerstone of biological thought.
  11. The main models of the British economy vary widely in attributing importance to the link between wealth and current spending.
  12. In the past, attempts to root out police corruption have been hampered by officers' reluctance to accuse their collleagues of wrong-doing.
  13. In the early 1980s, at a time when manufacturing industry was collapsing and the outlook for the unskilled looked particularly bleak, frustration boiled over in a series of riots in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, and elsewhere.
  14. The replacements which the chemical industry is developing for CFCs are also potent greenhouse gases.

A separate exercise is available for more practice with nouns such as industry which occur both in the structure 'the + modifer + noun' and '(no article) + modifier + noun'.

 

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