Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 2 | That er concludes my little contribution to the evening 's entertainment . |
| 3 | The suggested Directive 's objective is to protect minority shareholders against abuses of power by regulating the way in which the controlling undertaking exercises its dominant influence over the public company by interfering in its management . |
| 4 | This reaction owes its first impulse to the early days of punk , when groups like Marine , The Pop Group and A Certain Ratio first dabbled , intrigued , in funk . |
| 5 | In each case , the ‘ temporary ’ augmentation of the Soviet garrison became a permanent feature of the new status quo : after 1956 the Soviet Union doubled the strength of its Hungarian garrison from two divisions to four ; the Central Group of Forces owes its entire existence to the events of the Prague Spring . |
| 6 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 7 | It owes its unique status to the fact that the people who developed modern science and in many other ways created the modern world community had acknowledged the supremacy of gold since prehistoric times . |
| 8 | One of the most popular has been carnelian , which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide . |
| 9 | Ransom , the name finally arrived at , develops its own significance in the sequels to Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 10 | The emergence of the enterprise union form of organisation after World War II , and the importance attaching to its role in the industrial relations system , has its economic basis in the practice of lifetime employment for key employees . |
| 11 | The BBC still has its live coverage of the international matches and the NatWest Trophy , and it will also be screening highlights of the other matches but of necessity these will appear at the usual anti-social hours . |
| 12 | The BBC still has its live coverage of the international matches and the NatWest Trophy , and it will also be screening highlights of the other matches but of necessity these will appear at the usual anti-social hours . |
| 13 | Each patch of colour in the boats and trees has its equivalent patch on the water but these colours , even the whites , move increasingly towards the amber of the water and enable you to see through . |
| 14 | Management delegation and consultation within companies has its wider reflection in the institutions of Japan 's democratic polity . |
| 15 | Bismarck still stressed the federal nature of the union , saying , ‘ The German Empire has its firm basis in the princes ’ loyalty to the federation ( Bundestreue ) , in which its future also lies . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless , even this latter event as we have seen , has its rightful place along the spectrum of events that could happen . |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend intervene with the chairman of Kent police authority to ensure that Dartford has its fair share of the new allocation of extra manpower for the county of Kent ? |
| 18 | The high risk of death in infancy has its antecedent risk in the fetal stage . |
| 19 | Mosaics cover the half-domes of the niches but only the extreme left doorway — the Porta di Sant Allipio — has its original mosaic of the thirteenth century ; this illustrates the transportation of S. Mark 's body to the new church and shows how the church looked at about 1210 , based upon Justinian 's Church of the Holy Apostles ( PLATE 34 ) . |
| 20 | Pa sets the Ransome down on the grass , runs to the caravan , which has its own telephone at the office end , and disappears inside . |
| 21 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 22 | And New York State even has its own office in the U.K. to give you close personal attention . |
| 23 | This team now has its own ground near the Black Boy . |
| 24 | However , it will come as no surprise to the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) when I say that my party has its own alternative to the council tax , which is referred to in the amendment tabled by myself and my hon. Friends . |
| 25 | Each need identified has its own place in the vicious circle : a reluctance on the part of schools to deploy community language teachers as part of their staffing establishment , and to offer adequate capitation for teachers deployed from units outside of the school ; a shortage of Section 11 staff to meet the demand from schools for community language provision ; a lack of back-up facilities in local institutions such as teachers ' centres , curriculum development units and local universities and polytechnics . |
| 26 | These are essentially isolated from the main curricular work of a school and for those involved in them the profile has its own validity in the same way that , for example , RSA typing examinations have always done . |
| 27 | What about the ‘ Sensitive Mimosa ’ which has its own version of the flexion reflex so that flicking one leaf collapses all the leaves on that branch ? |
| 28 | Indeed , he could modify his model by supposing that the gradient has its high point at the back edge of each segment , and that bristles point up the slope , and it would work just as well . |
| 29 | ‘ Elinor has her own bathroom at the Lord Willington , ’ Adam pointed out . |
| 30 | Madge has her own answer to the complaints . |