Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 2 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the busy life which goes on in the unconscious profoundly affects our feelings and reactions in our conscious , outer life . |
| 4 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 6 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 7 | Yet the point , it 's a question really , which refers back to the last programme summary three , of the , the ninety four , ninety five base budget . |
| 8 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
| 9 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 10 | There 's an ‘ honesty ’ bar where you get your drinks yourself , and observation lounge which looks out over the lovely sweep of Broadford Bay . |
| 11 | Soon the route arrives at Tennyson Down , one of the highlights of the route , and on to Alum Bay which looks out over the chalky points of the Needles . |
| 12 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 13 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 14 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 15 | The double drones add an additional treble ring , which cuts through over the thicker , enveloping sound of the main bass strings . |
| 16 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 17 | Also included in this ‘ private ’ section of the building is a straight-flight staircase which leads up from the small hall containing the secondary entrance to serve the family 's first-floor sleeping accommodation . |
| 18 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 19 | A third approach which grows out of the Latin American situation is the ‘ Theology of Liberation ’ . |
| 20 | The highway , which links up with the old road south of Charikar , avoids mujahedin territory and and passes through a region where the Kabul regime has concluded deals with local guerrilla commanders . |
| 21 | It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest . |
| 22 | And as the icing on the cake , Gilliland also reported a smaller , but clearly present , fluctuation in solar size which ties in with the 11-year sunspot cycle . |
| 23 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 24 | The no-arbitrage band is ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) - Sr ( l - f ) >or= F >or= ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) , which can be rewritten as S ( 1 + rf ) - D ( 1 + r ) |
| 25 | At Scotney Castle in Kent Henry Moore 's bronze statue , Three Piece Reclining Figure — Draped , was placed in 1977 on a romantic isthmus which juts out into the well-wooded lake in the middle of which the old castle crouches on its island . |
| 26 | The oral area is covered with skin , often with small granules , which extends on to the ventral surface of the arms . |
| 27 | A popular Greek saying is ‘ Know Thyself ’ , which dates back to the ancient Greeks . |
| 28 | We took them to lunch at the Bull Inn which dates back to the 15th century , and afterwards explored the local market . |
| 29 | They hope to raise £1 million for the upkeep of the Manor which dates back to the 13th century . |
| 30 | Herriot 's Hotel and restaurant at Hawes has a price tag of £295,000 , while Kirkbymoorside 's George and Dragon , which dates back to the 13th century , is for sale at £400,000 . |