Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 2 | He always has his party on the last free night before production . ’ |
| 3 | Research shows that interviewers will make a visual impression which influences their decision within the first 45 seconds . |
| 4 | Research shows that interviewers will make a visual impression which influences their decision within the first 45 seconds . |
| 5 | For the more numerous , horizontally-structured unions in Britain of the craft-type which crossed industry lines their interest during the nineteenth century lay in obtaining uniformity of conditions for the particular occupation throughout the labour market . |
| 6 | The result of each one is made known to the voter before he casts his vote in the next , and the series is prolonged until there emerges at the top of the poll a candidate with an absolute majority . |
| 7 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 8 | Melanin pigmentation reaches its maximum about the 20th day of sun exposure . |
| 9 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 10 | Gandhi interprets his progression to the third stage of life as an extension of his social obligations . |
| 11 | In a postscript Eliza somewhat enigmatically mentions her pregnancy for the first time : |
| 12 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 13 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 14 | Do not do as I did and arrange to work only to find that the childminder changes her mind within the first few days . |
| 15 | The long road to Wembley winds its way into the second round this weekend and cup romance takes us to Cheltenham to see the Town ; the Robins getting ready for their big day . |
| 16 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
| 17 | We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time . |
| 18 | ‘ Which explains your interest in the Third Reich , ’ I said as I poured the tea . |
| 19 | He somehow continues his journey to the next town and dies in somebody 's arms . |
| 20 | In the afternoon we 're on the Palmer charge and believe it or not he hits his tee-shot at the 17th to exactly the same spot again , and turns to me and says , ‘ Before you say anything , Tip , do n't tell me it 's a 6-iron . ’ |
| 21 | On Friday morning the conditions are the same and he hits his tee-shot on the 17th , would you believe , into exactly the same place , and says , ‘ What club ? ’ |
| 22 | For example , Jan Watt bases his analysis of the first paragraph of Henry James 's The Ambassadors on five features : ( 1 ) non-transitive verbs ; ( 2 ) abstract nouns ; ( 3 ) the word that ; ( 4 ) elegant variation ; ( 5 ) delayed specification of referents . |