Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychosis is when there is , at times , such severe distress that someone seems to lose touch with the familiar world altogether . |
| 2 | Dittany when dried is greyer than malotira , although the leaves are similarly furry like so much of the vegetation , which needs to conserve moisture in the hot atmosphere , and the tea made from it has a muskier , more soothing quality . |
| 3 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 4 | In calculating whether there has been a reduction in the estate of the transferor one ignores the value of any excluded property which ceases to form part of the transferor 's estate as a result of the transfer ( excluded property includes property situated outside the United Kingdom where the person beneficially entitled to it is an individual domiciled outside the United Kingdom ) . |
| 5 | A booklet and set of cards form a training exercise which aims to stimulate discussion about the needs of informal carers , and to confront some assumptions on which services are based . |
| 6 | The former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton has been chairman of the planning committee for 16 years and was founder-director of the Northern Development Company , which aims to attract investment to the area . |
| 7 | A SCHEME which aims to provide respite for the parents of children who are on their summer holidays is being organised . |
| 8 | Hypo Foreign & Colonial Marketing has launched Protected Capital Plus , an open-ended Jersey-based rollup fund which aims to provide security for the original investment while locking in any gains in the FT-SE 100 Share Index each quarter . |
| 9 | He is founder-director of the Northern Regional Development Company , which aims to bring businesss to the area . |
| 10 | It is the process of paraphrasing , ordering and abbreviating which helps to fix material in the memory . |
| 11 | The most recent glass development is the growing use of solar control and low-emissivity glass , which helps to retain heat in the winter and to prevent unnecessary solar gain in summer . |
| 12 | The most recent development is the growing use of solar control and low-emissivity glass , which helps to retain heat in the winter and to prevent unnecessary solar gain in summer , often giving the equivalent effect of triple glazing when it 's used in conjunction with double glazing . |
| 13 | But it is also a history which tries to take account of the whole range of factors that shape human societies , from the character of their physical environments to sporadic peasant rebellions . |
| 14 | The courts now adopt a purposive approach which seeks to give effect to the true purpose of legislation and are prepared to look at much extraneous material that bears upon the background against which the legislation was enacted . |
| 15 | Instead it is now recognised as a human activity which seeks to advance understanding of the world around , through building upon previous knowledge and understanding . |
| 16 | Instead it is now recognised as a human activity which seeks to advance understanding of the world around , through building upon previous knowledge and understanding . |
| 17 | The Okavango Water Development Project — which proposes to supply water to the town of Maun , in the Boteti region , and the Orapa diamond mine , is another source of controversy . |
| 18 | " If you can find someone who needs to send cargo to the Aru Islands , " the Keraing announced , " then we can get the boat and a crew ready for you in a month , which is the last possible time for heading eastwards ! " |
| 19 | Similarly , a respectable suburban life may well be suppressed by an individual who wants to retain credibility amongst the gang . |
| 20 | She has to take account of the views of society at large . |
| 21 | You can give your child the language she needs to make sense of the experience . |
| 22 | When she starts to give birth to the older litter , the upheaval of delivery may lead to the younger litter being ejected as well . |
| 23 | Blessed with talent and power in abundance , she seems to lack application on the big occasions . |
| 24 | I am a Treasurer who likes to keep hold of the money , I like to receive it , I do n't like to give it out . |
| 25 | The new mother will often throw herself into motherhood so fully that she forgets to give time to the marital relationship , which can suffer considerable damage as a result . |
| 26 | While giving a pupil a lesson , it is possible to feel the muscles tense in order to maintain balance as he or she begins to lose awareness of the surroundings when ‘ mind-wandering ’ . |
| 27 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 28 | The main boom , however , is set fairly high on the mast and one has to make use of the fold-down mast steps when stowing the head of the sail . |
| 29 | I have used examples from relativity and quantum mechanics to show the problems one faces when one tries to make sense of the universe . |
| 30 | Everybody seems to have flu at the moment |