Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 About 245,000 people receive community care grants through the social fund and one million get crisis loans .
2 However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain .
3 ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him .
4 And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’
5 They huddle sensibly together in heaps of dirty wool while the pitiless wind shifts and howls between the shivering trees or flaps with daemonic aggression at the corrugated sheets of the sheds , outhouses and garages along the village road .
6 Their small church membership of around 10,000 hides the wider appeal Paisleyite politics has for the small businessmen and farmers of protestant Ulster .
7 But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’
8 Venus is much smaller , but nevertheless still has about the same mass as the Earth .
9 And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top .
10 Nakane 's work has a more voluntaristic approach , but even she writes about the assertive techniques that management uses to build up company identification of workers .
11 In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning .
12 No matter what the future holds for the next generation and the delicate trembling wilderness , at least we can promise our children and grandchildren one sure thing .
13 A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide .
14 The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century .
15 It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for
16 One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech .
17 same hat , so it looks like the same woman so he says , oh my God !
18 This looks like the same tape as Uncle Pauls erm is it ?
19 The Parish Church or Church of São Sebastião , stands near the central square and was erected in the eighteenth century .
20 ( The original crypt , one of the most ancient surviving Christian structures , lies beneath the present church and is open to visitors . )
21 The top part of the well section can not be seen from the entrance viewpoint as it lies behind the retaining wall and is covered by earth and vegetation .
22 The fact is that there is a fundamental difference in the philosophy which lies behind the British Constitution and those of her Continental partners .
23 Part of the responsibility for this lies with the innate friendliness and courtesy of the peoples of Burma , and behind that the long record of the Buddhist tradition .
24 Accountability in committee meetings lies with the whole membership and not with particular individuals .
25 If these groups persisted in their protest then they were drawn into sham " participation " exercises with the local authority that experience shows did more to neuter their dissent than to advance their real interests .
26 For Marx , class consciousness , which develops with the increasing struggles that the workers have with management , is a key factor contributing to the revolutionary role of the proletariat .
27 And maybe the external factor interacts with the immune system and the immune system acting , over zealously as it were , not only responds to the invader , but leads to a bystander damage of the nervous system in the process .
28 So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 .
29 The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves .
30 But the whole affair of Airbus and its new cousin lies in the deepest shadow that menaces Europe 's single-market project : the old-world urge to subsidise , to protect jobs and to create national champions remains depressingly intact .
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