Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 2 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 3 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 4 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 5 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 6 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 7 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 8 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 9 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 10 | A young monk entered to whom the prior whispered hoarse instructions . |
| 11 | In cases where we require the client to confirm in writing certain representations made to us the following letter may be used . |
| 12 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |
| 13 | In other words , by insisting on the dominance of the ruling class in the last instance , Poulantzas 's approach retained within it the central tenet of all reductionist instrumental accounts : namely , the state must be functioning to defend and protect the interests of the dominant class all of the time . |
| 14 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 15 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 16 | A hydraulic representation of his system dominated in which the historical evolution and context of Keynes 's ideas could find no place . |
| 17 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 18 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 19 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 20 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 21 | We all worked extremely hard on the project , and the band was really ahead of its time compared to what the heavy metal scene in Washington DC was doing in the early '80s ; we were faster and more complex than the majority of the other outfits in the area . |