Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its own activity is partly controlled by the hormones which it triggers the gonads into producing . |
| 2 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 3 | The enhanced results which can be obtained using a combined therapeutic regime are well illustrated by a study which we had the opportunity of carrying out about three years ago at a residential health establishment in Crieff . |
| 4 | This was discovered in 1925 by an Austrian physicist , Wolfgang Pauli-for which he received the Nobel prize in 1945 . |
| 5 | ‘ Britons tend to view their homes as a commodity to be traded and this has put people off having features in their homes which they think the market might find too ‘ individual . ’ |
| 6 | But it is not confrontation itself which creates the tension in dramatic terms . |
| 7 | This time it was Jean herself who took the wheel as she took her husband home to spend a cosy few hours by his own fireside . |
| 8 | Talking as a fan myself I prefer the Oval to Windsor as a venue for atmosphere and pitch quality . |
| 9 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 10 | The twenty fifth anniversary may be special but for some fans whatever they do the band just ca n't go wrong . |
| 11 | They they they did the the forge work and all that you see , and they looked after erm the er the inclined brakes What we call the brake . |
| 12 | At the christening it is the parents who have felt the need for religious involvement in the naming ceremony ; at the burial it is mainly the bereaved who are concerned and at the wedding it is the parties themselves who seek the ministrations of a church . |
| 13 | It was the showmen themselves who defined the place of the movies in the formal and respectable middle-class mind . |
| 14 | These are the institutions which we call the manor or the seigneurie . |
| 15 | Although one means of detachment from the world is a spiritual asceticism based upon a lack of material possessions , more common has been the desire to accumulate luxuries and objects which themselves signify the lack of any need to engage directly in productive labour . |
| 16 | ‘ The Conservative Party have cynically and ruthlessly betrayed the pledges which they gave the people of this country and they will not be forgiven for it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ The Conservative Party have cynically and ruthlessly betrayed the pledges which they gave the people of this country and they will not be forgiven for it . ’ |
| 18 | Its successor , The Hand of Ethelberta ( 1876 ) , a comic satire on fashionable London society , was a deliberate attempt to write the kind of fiction which he felt the clients of circulating libraries expected . |
| 19 | However , in the context of the volatile reaction , both internal and external , to a relatively mild Agrarian Reform initiative , they may well have served to endorse Castro 's conclusion that the social change which he wanted the revolution to effect in Cuba was incompatible with extremely powerful domestic and foreign economic interests . |
| 20 | Instead , the teacher reinforces the responsibility which she wants the children to exercise over their own learning , and the support they can offer to one another without needing to turn to her for confirmation . |
| 21 | This show and a number of other CBC programmes which I had the pleasure of producing were relayed to the Canadian forces overseas by the BBC from London throughout the war . |
| 22 | At the first meeting of the committee which I attended the secretary announced that it would be necessary for members to disclose their interests , meaning thereby that they should declare with what companies and organisations they were involved . |
| 23 | In the process the West may have sold itself a weapons portfolio which it lacks the means to produce in quantity . |
| 24 | Sir Anthony concludes that the DTI did not adopt this tactic ‘ as a matter of urgency ’ because of the ‘ inadequate grasp within the Licensing Unit of the detail of their powers under the Act which they had the task of administering . ’ |
| 25 | Broadly speaking , the courts have taken the view that the bounds of parliamentary privilege are fixed by the common law which they have the right to declare . |
| 26 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
| 27 | Erm a for that reason , I have in my evidence commended some alternative wording to you which is based upon erm a panel report for the Nottinghamshire structure plan who who considered the issue . |
| 28 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 29 | No they get nothing , they 'd get , all they went on the dole , well they used to get , they used to get erm , say yeah well you would get welfare benefit what we call the club , you go on the club and you see used t I , my , apparently had a private club , you could have both you see you had the private club and you got so much from the government , the National Health . |
| 30 | Although I am a motorist myself I use the car as little as possible , prefering to cycle for all urban journeys . |