Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … The horoscope in the Queen prophesies disaster for nearly everyone I know on the 16th of this month ( with the New Moon ) . |
| 2 | ‘ My nieces also tell me I live in the Mughal age , ’ he replied . |
| 3 | But there were some like me I suppose on the other side . |
| 4 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 5 | Now the the problem with the dealing with I I suspect with the major exceptions policy is that if you had it could you move fast enough in order to cope with that sort of animal appearing on your horizon which you wanted to capture . |
| 6 | I I feel in the early days the the social contract was n't particularly well known and I think our party initially felt that these things were better handled not though a proper set protocol in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 7 | Thus , the most useful way of analysing the first two precedents is to compare the provisions in each of them which relate to the same contractual issues and consider the two different approaches . |
| 8 | When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ . |
| 9 | The answers to these questions will be found in the analysis of cultural-ideological transnational practices and , in particular , the culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World , to which I turn in the next chapter . |
| 10 | Such a concept clearly requires further exploration , which I attempt in the next chapter . |
| 11 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 12 | Instead , I bought a number of computer magazines which I read into the small hours each night . |
| 13 | But by the summer I am writing a homosexual love-story which I preface with the following remark : |
| 14 | He also considered an argument based on freedom of speech , but rejected it for reasons which I consider in the next section of this judgment . |
| 15 | Follow the signposts through the farm and onto the drive which you follow to the main road . |
| 16 | It is entirely tied up with the intensity of interest or desire which you apply to the various things you do . |
| 17 | PERHAPS the most extraordinary thing about parenting is the speed with which you bond with the nondescript bundle presented to you in the delivery room . |
| 18 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 19 | ‘ There is n't the depth of strength which you find in the best labs in the States or in Japan . |
| 20 | This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process . |
| 21 | In such studies , to which we turn in the next chapter , it will be necessary to consider yet other components which have frequently entered into the definition of style . |
| 22 | Hence the importance of audits by competent and independent auditors — to which we turn in the next chapter . |
| 23 | But such a dimension does help to explain why philosophy can be seen both as a mode of thinking in any discipline , and also a discipline in its own right ; for it is at least arguable that the ‘ questions about questions ’ in every field eventually converge on certain basic questions and concepts which we recognize as the traditional domain and concern of the philosopher . |
| 24 | … to outline a system of geomorphology grounded in basic principles of mechanics and fluid dynamics , that will enable geomorphic processes to be treated as manifestations of various types of shear stresses , both gravitational and molecular , acting upon any type of earth material to produce the varieties of strain , or failure , which we recognize as the manifold processes of weathering , erosion , transportation and deposition . |
| 25 | The only new track which we envisage in the next 10–15 years is the possible construction of a new west-east chord to the South of Dalmeny , and the only new passenger services is a possible re-opening of the South Suburban line . |
| 26 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 27 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 28 | If we fail to see any need to offer sound moral justifications for treating sentient creatures as mere ‘ commodities ’ , ‘ preparations ’ , ‘ models ’ , or research ‘ tools ’ , then we surely deny that very rationality which we cite as the single quality which elevates humans so far above the other animals . |
| 29 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 30 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |