Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 2 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 3 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 4 | ‘ One of them plays the piano most beautifully . |
| 5 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 6 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 7 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 8 | Is n't it rather that , as Woodbridge implies , the transvestite seems to be a victim of false consciousness , and by switching gender roles rather than dissolving them reinforces the very sexual division which s/he finds oppressive ? |
| 9 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |
| 10 | Each of them has the power to decide immediately to stop purchasing tuna caught by fishing on dolphins . |
| 11 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 12 | These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops . |
| 13 | But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other . |
| 14 | You feel quite confident in interviewing both of them , but as it turns out only one of them has the imagination to emphasise with your ideas and within three weeks he is in situ . |
| 15 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 16 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 17 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 18 | I denotes the fractional-order beam intensities from an ordered overlayer system . |
| 19 | Region I denotes the range of chain lengths at which T g reaches its asymptotic value and the critical value x c at which this occurs increases as the chain becomes more rigid . |
| 20 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 21 | Volume I covers the period of 1916 to 1930 and concludes with Magritte 's return to Brussels from Paris where he had stayed for nearly three years . |
| 22 | ‘ I finished me readin' book today and I starts the last one on Mondee . |
| 23 | ‘ I starts the last readin' book on Mondee , . |
| 24 | What is true of Nietzsche is surely true of Derrida , of whom there are many competing versions ; Norris presumably believes that his contains the truth , without distancing quotation marks . |
| 25 | Figure 2.1 I illustrates the action of this instruction . |
| 26 | Then I bags the portmanteau . |
| 27 | There the similarity ends , since judging from his writings Bagehot was a roaring snob , whereas judging from his heckles the heckler was not . |
| 28 | Title I establishes the European Union as a formal entity . |
| 29 | so I says the only thing that 'll be is to er toast cheese on toast |
| 30 | I says the only thing is I says I bring them in and then finishing is closed . |