Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe . |
| 2 | So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared . |
| 3 | ‘ I have kind of an idea that gets everybody off the hook . |
| 4 | The idea that there is some grand unified theory that determines everything in the universe raises many difficulties . |
| 5 | Nationally the Liberals , chaired by David Moorish and boasting a logo that resembles something from the side of a soap powder box , will field around 70 candidates the next nearest is in Leeds . |
| 6 | He says that when people return to work after a holiday there is a lot of disruption and decreased productivity as a result of ‘ holiday infection that contaminates everyone around the person who has been away ’ . |
| 7 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 8 | This was at Fred 's suggestion and with the acclaim of all the players , and tells something of the charisma of the man |
| 9 | If the rules would otherwise indicate that the Steam Tank flees then the commander battens downs the hatch and does nothing until the end of his following turn . |
| 10 | Jonathan , if that breaks and hits someone in the eye , you will be in big trouble . |
| 11 | A drive that is ‘ unaware ’ of how it is set up and knows nothing of the way it 's data is stored . |
| 12 | So now he 's just an uneducated farm worker , and knows nothing of the world . |
| 13 | This ‘ moment ’ is itself a point in our own time and history , but insofar as it is also the encounter with eternity , it is the ‘ eternal moment ’ , and shares something of the quality of the intersection of time and eternity in Jesus himself . |
| 14 | Thus the dilemma of the polluting industry is that controlling pollution is expensive , but adds nothing to the value of the goods produced , and is bad business for any firm whose main concern is to maintain profitability in a competitive situation . ’ |
| 15 | , D O E. Er I 'm sure that members of the panel appreciate why I 've remained silent during the discussion of item two D , but does anyone in the room who does n't fully understand , it 's simply that the Secretary of State of exercises role in relation to a new settlement . |
| 16 | Radcliffe 's description of the period 1788 – 1803 for Lancashire cotton weavers mingles experience and myth but conveys something of the style of the good times : " Their dwellings and small gardens clean and neat — all the family well clad — the men each with a watch in his pocket , and the women dressed to their own fancy — the church crowded to excess every Sunday — every house well furnished . " |
| 17 | Now the museum has moved to a new incarnation to accommodate its popularity — a former estate nearby , where a $9.2 million , 27,000-square-foot building has been constructed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects , seeking to replicate the mythical New England town hall , as does everything in the landscape from ice cream parlours to petrol stations . |