Example sentences of "[pron] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 2 | Or as Krafft-Ebing put it , ‘ The sexual functions of men exercise a very marked influence upon the development and preservation of character ’ , so that manliness and self reliance were not the qualities which one would expect from the ‘ impotent onanist ’ . |
| 3 | The first Carolingian king , Pippin I , in 754/5 had specified " concerning the mint , that of each pound of silver , not more than 22 solidi were to be minted , of which one must go to the moneyer and the rest to the lord [ king ] " : since the account pound used in normal business reckoning contained 20 solidi , Pippin was in effect decreeing a royal mint charge of 1 solidus , i.e. 5 per cent . |
| 4 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 5 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
| 6 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 7 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 8 | In any case , there was nothing anyone could do about the men in the trenches until the fog lifted . |
| 9 | Within these one can still discern the ‘ earlier ’ items , whose syntactic combination in accordance with Montague 's formation rules involves only relatively minor peripheral modifications ( just what one would expect on the Sampson-Simon model ) . |
| 10 | And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed . |
| 11 | This , indeed , seems to be what one would expect from the point of view of intuitionist philosophers in general . |
| 12 | From everything I have said , I am sure that my Hon. Friends will agree that it is a model pension scheme , which is what one would expect from the public sector . |
| 13 | How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince . |
| 14 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
| 15 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 16 | The pool-liners which fall into the next category are what one might call in the medium-price range and represent good value for the average newcomer to water gardening . |
| 17 | What one can read between the lines was that Jackie was n't yet a champion , that he knew he was good enough to be one and that the pressures and opportunities to make money were too good to be passed up . |
| 18 | What one can take from the 1993 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is a sense of what certain critics consider important and a sense of the direction in which the Whitney is headed . |
| 19 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 20 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 21 | WHATEVER anyone might think about the amazing Norman Lamont saga , everyone will be agreed on one point : How can lawyers run up a Pounds 23,000 bill so simply ? |
| 22 | Frozen vegetables were , somehow , a lowering of standards , but they were quick and convenient and really fresher than anything one could get in the London shops . |