Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It is a weakness in Dunn 's useful book Baptism in the Holy Spirit that he sweeps aside these dozen or so references to the Spirit in the first three chapters of Luke and insists that the kingdom did not come until the baptism of Jesus . |
| 3 | Whether Britain will witness electoral reform in the next decade or so rests on the outcome of that debate . |
| 4 | ‘ It is also difficult at the moment to know whether in the heat of a race the horse actually feels the whip or merely reacts to the noise made by it . |
| 5 | ‘ All he does is sit at the front window looking out or just sits on the bench on a sunny day like Monday . |
| 6 | Just about everyone flicks through the racing pages and either studies the form , thinks of a lucky number or name , or just plunges in the pin . |
| 7 | But it is not justifiable to conclude from this that criminal law reflects a value-consensus or even results from the state 's neutral refereeing among competing interest groups . |
| 8 | Tremayne bore the jokes with reasonable fortitude , cheered by the absence of enquiry or even remarks from the Jockey Club , not even strictures about ‘ bringing racing into disrepute ’ , which I 'd learned was the yardstick for in-house punishment . |
| 9 | well my Lord certain believers well certainly that may give rise to problems , erm , and then one may have to resolve those on the basis of the ostensible authority or even claims against the member of state under article ten of the directive , but , however , erm , on , on satisfactory or confusing to the market that might be |
| 10 | These stéles discoïdales are formed of a roughly engraved stone disc on top of a sturdy , tapering base and you find them either buried well into the earth so that little shows above the ground except the disc or else standing clearly up above it ( see Plate I ) . |
| 11 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 12 | But it 's an exception to the hearsay rule that only applies against the maker . |
| 13 | It 's a talent that obviously runs in the family . |
| 14 | This is a problem that rightfully belongs to the subject of the electrical properties of materials , so I can not say very much about it . |
| 15 | Bowe 's margin of victory was so clear that when he and Holyfield were dragged off each other at the final bell , there was none of the tension that normally accumulates during the counting of the score card . |
| 16 | You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist . |
| 17 | Via sink , bath or lavatory , all these cleaners disappear down the drain and that usually leads to the sewer , on to sewage treatment plant and from there to sea or river . |
| 18 | They are grossly offensive to me and many other disabled people , and it is symptomatic of the gap that usually exists between the consciousness of the able-bodied staff of many disability organisations and the disabled people they are supposed to serve . |
| 19 | Even so there is still some dragging of feet which makes things like the implementation of standards which could be used across , not only C&P , but ICI as a whole , something that still belongs to the future . |
| 20 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | Tradition says that with other Covenanters he was hanged from the upstairs window of the house that still stands at the north-west corner of Mauchline Cross . |
| 22 | Some people leave effects of the dead person around — the hat that still hangs in the hall , the bedroom that is not touched , the area of the house that becomes a kind of ‘ shrine ’ to the memory of the person who is dead . |
| 23 | He accordingly renamed it the ‘ Eskimo Pie ’ and chose the distinctive Eskimo symbol that still appears on the wrapping . |
| 24 | The engine is the same size as in the old car , but the bodywork seems lighter and the shape is certainly smoother , so that probably accounts for the difference , ’ she says . |
| 25 | You may be able to get someone to talk on a topic that also features in the textbook so that the video recording would introduce listening comprehension work that linked to a reading task . |
| 26 | Although the decisive opening goal , a brilliant volley by Nayim , owed nothing to planning , it was just reward for a display that emphasised the spirit of resilience that now prevails at the club . |
| 27 | The church that now stands behind the façade is Waldensian . |
| 28 | Yet that 's the ticket that now hangs around the neck of the so-called ‘ Earth Summit ’ , the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) , to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June next year . |
| 29 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 30 | That is the one thing that really matters in the House and we must not undermine it in our negotiations . |