Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 2 | Suppose that before he looks to the legal record he thinks it would be best to decide for the defendant in McLoughlin because it would be cheaper for the community as a whole if prospective victims insure against emotional injury than if drivers insure against causing it . |
| 3 | Secondly , if we look at return maps , as r passes through the critical region they start to change so that they resemble Fig. 6.10 . |
| 4 | Then , against the advice of all , he embarks upon a final desperate attempt , which he later describes as the worst mistake he ever made . |
| 5 | He is now hoping to raise enough money to return to Bosnia to continue his work , and while the thought he had to kill still haunts him he says in the same situation he would not fail to kill again . |
| 6 | The time you have to carry this out naturally depends upon the actual load you put on the batteries , that is , how much gear you have hanging off it and the total power consumption of this hardware . |
| 7 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 8 | Depends on the actual person you see and what their attitude is . |
| 9 | Their development as a popular force largely depends on the musical direction they follow . |
| 10 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 11 | When , in 1929 , the Swiss amateur physiologist Hans Berger reported that by taping a set of recording electrodes to the human scalp he could record continuous bursts of electricity pulsing through the brain , he was at first not taken seriously . |
| 12 | Amazingly , the film takes on instant depth the minute it touches ‘ American ’ soil , suggesting something very like moral ambiguity as Columbus suddenly turns into the hard-arsed imperialist we now fondly imagine him to be . |
| 13 | For the first time ever , we can see how the process of understanding language fits into the general picture we have about mental processes . |
| 14 | He smiles with the familiar grin I know so well , but this time I see those eyes of loneliness , as if there 's something no-one could understand , hidden by his visage of cheerfulness . |
| 15 | Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power . |
| 16 | So that you can put a brand new car on at eh , A and by the time it gets to the other end it 's literally got rust problems . |
| 17 | If that er clothing becomes heated and it gets to the right temperature it will burst into the flames , likewise if it 's not balanced properly and you go out the door the living room or the lounge into the kitchen or some other part of your home the draft by closing the door can knock the airer over , unbalance it and of course er set fire to the clothing . |
| 18 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 19 | On the other hand there are , in some people 's opinions , sinister overtones of being able to keep tabs on a person 's movements , though how that differs from the present system I am not quite sure . |
| 20 | That accounts for the pinkish colour I found in the incisors of both remains . ’ |
| 21 | So , by the time they went to Scotland , Boswell had visibly engaged with the project , which accounts for the everyday discipline he displayed in writing his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides . |
| 22 | Also in the field is a Mira variable , S Canis Minoris , but as it never rises above the seventh magnitude it is of no real interest to anyone without a telescope . |
| 23 | When she rises in the white garment she must be terribly dominant . |
| 24 | But when one considers the next two stanzas a flaw appears in the untold simplicity we have followed so far . |
| 25 | I am sitting eating cornflakes in the benign haze you are left with from making love before breakfast . |
| 26 | CGT only applies to the actual profit you make , so if you buy shares to the value of £25,000 and sell them later for £35,000 the taxman will only be interested in the £1 0,000 profit you have gained . |
| 27 | As in the case of Bacon , the central importance of Paracelsus rests on the general impetus he gave to the reform of science and on the development of a comprehensive religious and ethical framework for scientific and medical endeavour . |
| 28 | With regards to the American theme we will be taking Sir William Orpen 's portrait of Mrs St George . |
| 29 | Nozick anyway could not hold that it does , because his position relies on the independent proof it provides that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 30 | Our coverage begins with the biggest thing he did , then turns to the biggest thing he left undone . |