Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starlight and glow-worm light captured for me the simplicity of this joy . |
| 2 | Also , it costs Britain each year £3 million to import enough human blood , mainly from the United States , for factor VIII extraction and this blood carries with it the risk of disease . |
| 3 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 4 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 5 | This theory carries with it the implication that the cyclostome characters mentioned above were not part of the history of gnathostomes but were instead specializations restricted to lampreys and hagfishes . |
| 6 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 7 | 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 . ] . |
| 8 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 9 | Now that Novell has bought Unix from AT&T , all the incompatible versions of Unix will have to stop fighting each other and start fighting their rivals , because this version carries with it the best argument yet — a box with the word Novell on it . |
| 10 | This power brings with it the responsibility to ensure that decisions are made and priorities are set upon the basis of the best educational advice available . |
| 11 | His honest suffering reveals to her the nobility of selfless love and the truth of language which is metaphoric yet direct . |
| 12 | The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived . |
| 13 | Not long afterwards the protesters also dispersed , obeying the order of the chief steward to take with them the newspapers on which they had been sitting . |
| 14 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 15 | Police never traced a scruffy looking man seen with her the day before she died . |
| 16 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 17 | Another strategy is to jam the re-uptake system open , so that dopamine flows through it the wrong way all the time , keeping the gap suffused with the neurotransmitter . |
| 18 | Success in any great enterprise brought with it the danger of complacency , the danger that the French would surrender to their demons of fragmentation and mediocrity . |
| 19 | Thus expanded negative reproduction carries with it the seeds of revolution . |
| 20 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 21 | The Fat Controller forced upon me the conclusion that things were not at all as they seemed . |
| 22 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Those who believe that the growth of planned economy brings with it the possibility ( on the narrow basis of the dying out of the law of value ) of acting just as one pleases , do not understand the ABC of economic science . |
| 26 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 27 | Or the awareness may arrive in a sudden moment of revelation , one vivid encounter bringing with it the perception of blackness . |
| 28 | Why did n't I go home to my own country taking with me the sheet which bore the stains of my virginity . |
| 29 | And if it does , its own activity carries within it the seeds of its own self-balancing . |
| 30 | 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 . |