Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 2 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 3 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 4 | In regard Angus Brown , John McVurich are in the parish of Kilvarow the presbytery refers them till the next dyet therein . " |
| 5 | In regard Angus Brown , John McVurich are in the parish of Kilvarow the presbytery refers them till the next dyet therein . " |
| 6 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 7 | His description of these two conditions places them within the normal range of problems in profoundly deaf children : |
| 8 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 9 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 10 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 11 | The grave , on the contrary , has them in the minimal sense of its being merely an emphatic statement of someone 's duties towards it . |
| 12 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 13 | So important is Dublin 's goal that United 's first win of the season elevates them into the top half of the table behind reigning champions Leeds in 11th place . |
| 14 | Discussion — which develops conclusions and incorporates them into the historical pattern of evolving knowledge , perhaps offering some conjectures but avoiding speculation . |
| 15 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 16 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 17 | What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park . |
| 18 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 19 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 20 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 21 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 22 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 23 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 24 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 25 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 26 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 27 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 28 | One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 . |
| 29 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 30 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |