Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If by post , the buyer 's conveyancer posts or delivers to the seller 's conveyancer the part of the contract signed by the buyer , together with a cheque for the deposit . |
| 2 | The court could be asked to observe injuries or scars on the child 's body . |
| 3 | But without the sort of big-money sponsorship that goes to the men 's game the women are having to spend precious time fund-raising rather than concentrating on their playing . |
| 4 | The one is in the corridor that goes from the porter 's lodge to the stairs up to . |
| 5 | Moreover , the equipment that sits on the manager 's desk is all that is required — the computer 's intelligence is housed within the one unit . |
| 6 | Reports in the Independent of Feb. 24 suggested that splits over the government 's Gulf war policy had prompted new political alignments between the army and right-wing opponents of Sharif . |
| 7 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 8 | The section , ‘ The family ’ , is perhaps more likely to be explored in terms of an imaginary one — the family in a story or rhyme , or the family of dolls that lives in the doll 's house . |
| 9 | For example , in flowering plants the haploid stage is reduced to the pollen tube , derived from a haploid pollen grain that falls on the stigma of a flower and grows until it reaches and fertilizes the egg cell that lies in the flower 's ovary . |
| 10 | The VP 1 of these lines is located by the line that passes through the observer 's eye E . |
| 11 | With the final diagnostic criterion that depends on the gonococcus 's propensity for going round in pairs as ‘ diplococci ’ we have the microscopic finding that enables the diagnosis to be made in cases of suspected gonorrhoea — Gram-negative intracellular diplococci . |
| 12 | The deepest cleft that exists in the earth 's surface is the Grand Canyon in the western United States . |
| 13 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 14 | Or rosemary that shakes in the world 's breeze . |
| 15 | Beyond even this , however , it can be argued that the intrinsic nature of the fabliau that resides in the Shipman 's Tale counteracts all of these " anti-isms " , and that the Shipman 's Tale thus offers a critical disruption of these conventional categories . |
| 16 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 17 | To return to one of our initial examples , consider the belief that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 18 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 19 | According to Galbraith , America 's democracy of the contented contemptuously ignores the growing underclass of the poor , underestimates the declining competitiveness of the US economy , and responds resentfully to any remedy that intrudes on the majority 's self-satisfaction . |
| 20 | With a nonlinear demand curve it is the slope that changes along the curve 's length , but the elasticity in some special cases , right , can remain constant . |
| 21 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 22 | The single image is like a photograph but a schema is a film that blazes in the mind 's theatre . |
| 23 | As budgeting is an integral part of any business plan , it is usually preferable both to express the plan and to review it on an annual basis that coincides with the firm 's accounting year . |
| 24 | Newall was flanked by two officers armed with semi-automatic rifles as he left the Moorish castle that serves as the Rock 's jail for the opening of extradition proceedings . |
| 25 | For this reason we have the feeling that a Braque jug is just as real and valid , just as much a distinct unity , as the jug that comes from the potter 's wheel . |
| 26 | What is n't so clear to the pension investor is the impact on their final returns that results from a reduction or a termination of regular premiums , and the situation that arises on the investor 's death before drawing retirement benefits . |
| 27 | Apart for the graphics processor , the boxes also sport NEC 's ImageVideo , a local video bus that runs at the processor 's external clock speed — this made its debut with the company 's Powermate Series . |
| 28 | Bradford , for all the Italian wine and canapes at the mill 's art gallery , looked like a dank study by Hockney 's northern predecessor L.S.Lowry . |
| 29 | The second stanza is a global view of the sun 's power and refers to the sun 's life giving properties in general . |
| 30 | The name Lakenvelder means ‘ sheeted field ’ and refers to the breed 's broad white belt on a black or red coat ; it , too , is now very rare . |