Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 2 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 3 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 4 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 5 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 6 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 7 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 8 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |
| 9 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 10 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 11 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 12 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 13 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 14 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 15 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
| 16 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 17 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 18 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 19 | Indicating one of the wider streets leading off the square , he added , ‘ A short walk down Calle Lunga brings you to the Grand Canal . ’ |
| 20 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 21 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 22 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 23 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 24 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 25 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 26 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 27 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 28 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 29 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 30 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |