Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used . |
| 2 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 3 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 4 | More abstractly the particularities of circumstance which attended both Julian 's and Margery 's report of their experiences illuminate the position of women and the roles open to them within the heirarchy of spiritual authority in the late medieval period . |
| 5 | The best action open to you at the moment is to undertake a re-entry course which conforms to the criteria outlined in the UKCC 's Guidelines for Good Practice . |
| 6 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 7 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 8 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 9 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 10 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |
| 11 | But whether or not one can establish the existence of general limits to the authority of governments , the normal justification thesis invites a piecemeal approach to the question of the authority of governments , which yields the conclusion that the extent of governmental authority varies from individual to individual , and is more limited than the authority governments claim for themselves in the case of most people . |
| 12 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |
| 13 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 14 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 15 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 16 | I gave her the carrier and watched her jaunty backview disappear with it into the crowds , and I was more and more sure that what she was carrying was harmless . |
| 17 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 18 | So when your managers speak to you at the beginning of a er of your Monday morning meeting to say Gerald how much business have you got landed for next week you can say with conviction , two , two definite cases . |
| 19 | ‘ Our feelings flow from one to the other but ultimately , it will be Nigel 's decision if he wants to drive again next year . |
| 20 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 21 | Although it 's a bit on the big side to lug around the mountainside , I advise you to keep a copy handy as the cold nights draw in — it 'll ensure your skyline walking dreams stay with you through the winter . |
| 22 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Sensitive females know it is no good announcing ‘ Excuse me a minute , I 'll see if the scones are done ’ merely to have the sound of the flushing toilet proclaim to everybody in the house , ‘ I have been to the loo ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Nor could capitalist or socialist states deal by themselves with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe , or the difficulties that were facing the developing countries . |
| 24 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 25 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 26 | People talk about him in the pub on Sundays . |
| 27 | So I think you 're right , it 's a very very important , erm , and , and often in life , you can find people switch from one to the other with astonishing speeds . |
| 28 | Do n't become disenchanted when you fail , keep on striving forward , keep your ego under control and never believe the things people write about you in the press ! ’ |
| 29 | Four great panthers crash into them at the pavement with a thud like a sledgehammer hitting a mudflat . |
| 30 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |