Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 2 | The following morning a person who was out with his gun , in expectation of falling in with some sort of wild fowl , perceiving an appearance rather uncommon , ventured to approach the spot ; upon his coming up the dog got off the body , and after repeatedly shaking himself to get disentangled from the accumulated snow , encouraged the sportsman ( a Mr. Finch ) , by actions of the most significant nature , to come near the side of his master . |
| 3 | ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction . |
| 4 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 5 | By discussing children 's work and looking at it together I hope to help you to learn to discriminate between the good and the precocious . |
| 6 | Similarly , the future lens cells can not detach from the sheet unless their CAMs change to allow them to let go of the neighbouring cells . |
| 7 | I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success . |
| 8 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 9 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 10 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |
| 11 | The competition between the various entrepreneurs will move them to offer to buy from the low-price sellers , at prices higher than these sellers had thought possible ; entrepreneurs in competition with one another will also sell to high-price buyers at prices lower than these buyers had thought possible . |
| 12 | Miss Nazir warned them to get rid of the stolen property and then went to alert her sister . |
| 13 | He also told them to stop complaining about the electoral system . |
| 14 | Likewise , for themselves to go chasing after the dispersed fleeing men in the darkness would be a waste of effort . |
| 15 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 16 | Confidence in the feminine within allows us to let go of the outer image from time to time . |
| 17 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |