Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of people that have influenced you in the past , and got you to do things , which , if you look back , and you think , that was very clever . |
| 2 | These poor folk , whose lack of privilege is just one of the many thrusting reasons that have sent me to the bosom , not to mention the buttocks , of today 's quite heavenly Labour Party , may find that my pronunciamentos become somewhat impenetrable once past the ninth , tenth , or even twenty-third of their constituent subordinate clauses , so that the very juicy and surprisingly supple points that I make are lost amidst their attendant persiflage . |
| 3 | They are looking at job-weighting , concepts of ‘ stewardship ’ and performance measurement in the knowledge that greater flexibility in pay ( and recruitment ) will be crucial factors in escaping from what Mr Montagu calls ‘ the rigidities that have bedevilled us in the past ’ . |
| 4 | They blamed the crises that have affected it on the way in which EC members carried out their obligations , not on the ERM itself . |
| 5 | However , ailments other than the above , that have troubled you in the past are covered . |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
| 7 | Even , even though they may be er , the they may work as a result of different o of the same enzyme activity in some cases the target for that enzyme activity and the receptors that have put it into the specific cells that are targeted lead to really very different biological effects . |
| 8 | At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona . |
| 9 | The economists Nelson and Winter in their Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change ( 1982 ) describe this information as ‘ organisational routine ’ , and have likened it to the information codified in computer programs . |
| 10 | Well I have made a statement to the police and have put it in the police station in a sealed envelope . |
| 11 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 12 | I have therefore not attempted to consider that point , but have assumed it for the purposes of this judgment … |