Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the english " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't you read involve in the English language I do not know . |
| 2 | The drafting of these provisions , at least as they appear in the English text , is of very poor quality . |
| 3 | This positive working relationship helped to strengthen the foundations of the sport , especially when Sarah moved on in 1987 to become a senior staff coach at the English Ski Council and Development Officer for freestyle . |
| 4 | As we have seen , the Spanish often speak of the English choral tradition with admiration and have received with generosity and warmth English recordings of music by Iberian masters such as Victoria and Guerrero . |
| 5 | Their breeds range from the English Shire horse to the Shetland pony . |
| 6 | In the context of such a history , how are we to interpret our local sensation , the death of an obscure Englishman , who acted as house agent , courier , travel guide , purveyor of groceries in short supply , house-sitter and , it has been daringly suggested , pimp to the English army of occupation in Chiantishire ? |
| 7 | Welcome to the English riviera . |
| 8 | it 's way down the I mean all these people go , Oh it 's people are n't using the english language properly but if you look at the english |
| 9 | When we look at the English writing system we see how badly it fits the spoken language . |
| 10 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 11 | ( iii ) I assume you know of the English tenders that are invited — including Scotch . |
| 12 | While there can be no objection in principle to allowing foreigners access to the English courts , it is doubtful whether they should be permitted to recover damages for defamatory words which may freely circulate in the country where the plaintiff 's reputation would be most affected . |
| 13 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 14 | GRAEME SOUNESS angrily claimed he would quit football if the tactics used by Crystal Palace last night ever prevail in the English game . |
| 15 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 16 | Natasha Lebedeva and Nastya Kharina live in Russia and go to the English Language School in Perm . |
| 17 | Perhaps this is not surprising if we agree with the English philosopher , Thomas Hobbes , who argued that the pursuit of power is part of human nature . |
| 18 | A repeat at the English Schools Championships in Blackpool on July 9–10 would almost certainly put both among the medals . |