Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 2 | But that line is a difficult one to draw , and some traders or lenders may inadvertently draw it in the wrong place . |
| 3 | ‘ We should perhaps remind them of the dangers they run , provoking us to … retaliate ? ’ |
| 4 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 5 | But you must not build them on the graveyard . |
| 6 | We should just make it to the cabaret — everyone 's there . |
| 7 | Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point . |
| 8 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 9 | In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power . |
| 10 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 11 | Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations . |
| 12 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 14 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 15 | If , in popular music , these take on to some extent an ‘ automatic ’ quality , this should not blind us to the contradictory potentials of such historical continuities . |
| 16 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
| 17 | In the Miller 's Prologue , the Miller 's supposed drunkenness should not blind us to the measured good sense and balance of the mind implied within the character who speaks as the Miller . |
| 18 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 19 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 20 | Short-term leases , if they do n't contain an absolute bar to assignment , commonly contain a covenant by the lessee not to assign the lease without the lessor 's licence , and usually provide that such licence shall not be unreasonably withheld — if such proviso is omitted , then acting for a prospective lessee you should always insert it in the draft . |
| 21 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 22 | In turn , this should also remind us of the limitations for the mosaicist of over-ornate sketches . |
| 23 | But excuse me , my grandmother , I must n't keep her in the cold . ’ |
| 24 | You must n't put them in the front ! |
| 25 | But a childhood gaining a reputation as an impulsive scatterbrain should n't preclude her from the same opportunities and privileges her brother received , should it ? |
| 26 | No , I should n't put them in the garage they 'll get damp there . |
| 27 | ( Nerves do n't count — you should n't have them after the practice sessions . ) |
| 28 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 29 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
| 30 | It 's very similar to the two previous instructions , but because you 're going into an open A note , I need to show that you must previously lower it by the equivalent of 1 fret , so you simply pick the open A , having already lowered the note by a half-tone with your tremolo arm . |