Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle .
2 In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence .
3 There is cracked mud where water once rushed through the mill race on the Ver , near St Albans , Herts .
4 However , the most vital feature in eligibility for participation in the committees was the attitude or relationship previously adopted to the Japanese : if village elders had shunned the colonial regime , they could be chosen to play a leading part in the work of the committees .
5 The sports man or woman simply walks to the top of a hill , carrying a special mountain skateboard , and when at the top climbs on the board for a thrill-of-a-lifetime journey down the hill .
6 Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords .
7 One does n't miss the odd stem in a large clump , and you can also divide old clumps in spring or autumn , planting the surplus into rows in the vegetable garden or allotment purely to cut for the house .
8 The settlor is able to recover the tax paid by him from any trustee or person to whom the income arises under the settlement , subject to crediting any allowance or relief so obtained by the settlor .
9 The success of a sports team or personality often relies on the hard work of those unseen figures behind the scenes — the manager and the coach .
10 If you are an Overseas student , please see the section on Coming to Edinburgh as an Overseas Student ; and if you would like further advice or information please write to the International Office .
11 Another factor is whether or not the death of a plant or animal necessarily coincided with the point at which it ceased to exchange carbon with the environment .
12 Unlike the natural sciences , where discussion often starts with the results and ignores the methodology of the research , the social sciences — and increasingly anthropology — have developed an elaborate argument about the practices of doing research .
13 The female form — or imagery directly related to the female anatomy — is therefore as ubiquitous in Surrealist paintings by women as it is in those by men .
14 Even recent liberalisation has failed to dispel deep-seated suspicions that discrimination still lurks beneath the surface .
15 Although agriculture hardly figured in the race to the White House , Presidentelect Bill Clinton is regarded as being more protectionist and the failure to resolve outstanding differences over oil seeds could well fuel an agricultural trade war .
16 Michael Locke pointed out that criticism sometimes levelled at the CNAA in fact constituted a critique of ‘ the lack of a polytechnic policy ’ .
17 This can be done by tipping the leading edge up , so that water only flows over the lip when a reasonable quantity is being pumped .
18 The result is faster than the standard SoftPC-based Windows and MS-DOS emulation , but slower than code specifically compiled for the RISC chip .
19 The result is faster than the standard SoftPC-based Windows and MS-DOS emulation , but slower than code specifically compiled for the RISC chip .
20 Its mystery does not affect the understanding of the Created God , for , to accord with the aims and claims of this book that mystery still rests in the pre-life period ; furthermore , it is possible to associate it with the concept of ‘ desire ’ put forward in the hypothesis associated with the Second Period .
21 I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road .
22 During 1642 the quarrel between King Charles I and parliament rapidly deteriorated into the Civil War .
23 Cardiac symptoms after infarction consist mainly of heart failure , which is a consequence of muscle damage and angina mainly related to the degree of residual coronary disease .
24 He opened a new housing complex for the elderly , but with none of the pomp and formality normally associated with the job .
25 The child 's brother and sister also died in the blaze , which left an apartment block in ruins in the Hyde Park area of Boston , Massachusetts .
26 New captain Terry Moncur and Alabaster both won in the afternoon singles , though not as handsomely as expected , but only Kenny Breeze managed to score points thereafter .
27 This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man .
28 It wo n't be easy , not with the coffers bare and momentum now turned in the downward direction .
29 and mummy nearly went through the roof
30 The application of techniques 1 : the attacker and defender both begin in the right stance .
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