Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 2 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 3 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 4 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 5 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 6 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 7 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 8 | This takes you to the top of the crane and the two flags — well done , level complete . |
| 9 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 10 | This distinguishes them from the state agencies that provide health , education or other services on the basis of bureaucratic criteria such as need and entitlement , rather than as commodities to be bought and sold in the market . |
| 11 | This prompts you for the input range and you type this in or select it by pointing . |
| 12 | This compensates us for the cost of processing your booking , advertising your holiday for sale , and reflects the risk that the holiday may remain unsold . |
| 13 | CD PHANTASM ( this moves you into the Phantasm directory ) |
| 14 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 15 | When she is in her own home this puts her above the income support level of £44 personal allowance , plus a higher pensioner premium of £23.55 , totalling £67.55 . |
| 16 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 17 | Pa talking like this reminds me of the witch in the Snow White video : ‘ Cymbeline 's bought you strawberries and ice cream m for tea , ’ it says . |
| 18 | This maintains them within the layer of plant plankton upon which they feed . |
| 19 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 20 | This brings us to the subject of heat convection and heat loss . |
| 21 | This brings us to the problem of whether to leave serial harmony as it is , the product of a system , or to override the system and make the harmonic result our own . |
| 22 | This brings us to the problem of phonological recoding within sentence context . |
| 23 | This brings us to the relationship between citizenship and community . |
| 24 | This brings us to the concept of risk-sharing . |
| 25 | This brings us to the question central to the understanding of Queen Mary : the nature of Scottish monarchy , and the factors which made the relationship between kings and their subjects successful or unsuccessful . |
| 26 | This brings us to the question of those notoriously stuffy announcers . |
| 27 | This brings us to the question of how we should consider that portion of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed . |
| 28 | This brings us to the question of truancy . |
| 29 | This brings us to the question of ‘ competence plus ’ — or merit . |
| 30 | This brings us to the present . |