Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | a dust particle sticking to the printing plate or blanket which appears on the printed sheet as a dark spot surrounded by an halo . |
| 2 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 3 | Naturally , the carrier can not be held responsible for loss or damage which results from the trader 's carelessness or negligence . |
| 4 | A functional is a quantity or function which depends upon the entire course of one or more functions rather than on a number of discrete variables . |
| 5 | ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there . |
| 6 | The present situation in 1990 is that would-be members can become provisional members by the following means ; by being offered an engagement by any company or management which operates under the ‘ Quota ’ system by agreement with Equity and the Theatre Managers ' Association . |
| 7 | This is the payment or receipt which arises from the way in which the EC budget is financed and disbursed ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) 5.18(2) confers the right on an applicant , licence-holder , objector or complainer who appeared at the hearing to request that the board give their reasons for their decision in writing . |
| 9 | In many generalized insects there is also a median , unbranched apodeme or spina which arises from the intersegmental spinasternum . |
| 10 | The module owner is generally the person or organisation who pays for the module ( or modules ) to be developed , although this user has no specific LIFESPAN privileges . |
| 11 | The module owner is generally the person or organisation who pays for the module ( or modules ) to be developed , although this user has no specific LIFESPAN privileges . |
| 12 | Ex abundante cautela , the Act goes on to provide that ‘ no physician ’ or other who complies with the directive ‘ shall be subject to civil liability therefrom ’ or ‘ shall be guilty of any criminal act or of unprofessional conduct ’ . |
| 13 | Students then tick the boxed word or phrase which corresponds to the sentence they think they heard . |
| 14 | In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing . |
| 15 | The structure of the fertilizer industry is divided into two , where subscript I refers to the four dominant firms and subscript 2 refers to the blenders , who act as importers of urea . |
| 16 | The following type of story might be told by the best man , a friend , or groom who works in the bride 's family business : |
| 17 | From the apron or uniform she wore to the testimonial of good behaviour or ‘ character ’ , without which she became unemployable , everything about her symbolised a relation of power and subjection . |
| 18 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 19 | So that morning I went to the College library and began trying to remind myself of the intricacies of French verbs . |
| 20 | Look for music that takes the plunge into the infinities of outer or inner space , rather than music which paddles through the shallows of everyday feeling . |
| 21 | Here , it is worth drawing attention to some points other than cost which emerge from the analysis of people 's attitudes to different types of credit ( Appendix I , Tables 12a , 12b , 12c and comments on them ) . |
| 22 | And whether he changes his system , ploughs his moorland , reseeds his pasture , increases his stocking rate , drains his bog and fertilises his meadow is strongly influenced by the advice and grant-aid he receives from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 23 | It is the balance between precision and imprecision which contributes to the success of his rhetoric , it seems — and perhaps to rhetoric everywhere . |
| 24 | My committee were greatly encouraged , during the campaign , by the courtesy and enthusiasm we met on the doorsteps and by the many volunteers , of all age groups and areas of the town , eager to offer unstinting help . |
| 25 | While I got us some bread and butter and milk he sat on the floor with his great head bent , staring at the carpet and tracing its patterns with his forefinger . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly much of Lewkenor 's commercial activities verged on the illegal , but few of the Sussex coastal gentry were probably uninvolved in the piracy and smuggling which flourished in the troubled international scene and which , in the guise of ‘ sea-dogs ’ , has long been acknowledged as one of the great Elizabethan attributes . |
| 27 | And so throwing up its hands in horror and resignation it turns to the priests and pastors of religion — of a more primitive world order — and tells them to get on with it . |
| 28 | I am confident of our ability to meet any challenge and opportunity we meet during the year and I wish you all every success . |
| 29 | In this context ‘ leadership ’ means more than the drive and direction which comes from the headteacher and senior staff . |
| 30 | This attitude both belittles the quality of the author 's work and also underestimates the wide reading and research which went into the creation of her most famous character . |