Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 2 | Whatever the difference of view held across the House , given that CTCs are funded by public money , will the Secretary of State take urgent steps to give parents whose children are refused admission to them the same right of appeal that is available in respect of all other publicly-funded schools ? |
| 3 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 4 | Though it would certainly be in keeping with his media image if he were to use Seawitch for what the tabloids liked to call a ‘ love nest ’ . |
| 5 | By ‘ pure syntactic ambiguity ’ is meant ambiguity in which the variant readings of a sentence involve identical lexical units ; the ambiguity is thus necessarily a matter merely of the way the elements are grouped together . |
| 6 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |