Example sentences of "the words [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 2 | But , in the words of the old Spanish proverb , ‘ Take what you want , said God , and pay . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Unless the Government acts to free students from this sort of red fascism , then all the words of the Education Reform Act will have been in vain . ’ |
| 4 | He taught her the words of the Angelus , the Hail Mary ; though he said that he could not quite use all the words himself literally , but he respected those who could , and he did not think there was anything in it which made Mary take the place of her Son . |
| 5 | He did not need words to join in this act , he could use the words of the prayer book or his own words , but he needed no words at all . |
| 6 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Latin America is such a syncretic , eccentric , disjointed fusion of European , Amerindian and Afro-Caribbean culture , ’ in the words of the Mexican artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña . |
| 8 | If he spoke the words of the invitation correctly , the dolphins would follow him with cries of joy to the surface . |
| 9 | IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard . |
| 10 | Similarly , the Evangelical can speak of an encounter with the words of the text of Scripture as though God has spoken directly to him . |
| 11 | In the words of the poem by Angelus Silesius : |
| 12 | Look at the words of the hymns , glance at the dates and link them in with the theories we have discussed , and I can promise you that it will all make a little more sense and make it even more evident how our hymn-writers wrestled with the meaning of the cross . |
| 13 | He raised his eyebrows in surprise and softly sang the words of the song . |
| 14 | The words of the Johannine Jesus , ‘ I came that they may have life , and have it abundantly ’ , are in the end apt comment on this story . |
| 15 | With the words of the promises ringing in his ears Jacob crossed the border of the Promised Land , and continued on his way towards Laban . |
| 16 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 17 | They called him a dunce at school , yet he knew all the words of the records on Sweetheart 's wind-up gramophone , and every song Buddie 's friends played when they got together with their instruments in the big downstairs room . |
| 18 | Now , in the words of the seventeenth century horticulturalist , John Parkinson , I leave it in corners ‘ so no place be unfurnished . ’ |
| 19 | She listens to the words of the Goddess , who is surely right , who must know everything . |
| 20 | The tradition of the words of the Lord was largely oral , and even after the canonical gospels were freely circulating , second-century citations of Jesus ' teaching often suggest oral rather than written transmission . |
| 21 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 22 | For it can not last much longer , and for us the words of the Führer are gospel . ’ |
| 23 | This interpretation of the words of the Führer was frequently voiced . ’ |
| 24 | This , he wished it to be understood , was a duty to God incumbent on him personally , one that he couched in the words of the Confiteor : ‘ And I pray to God that you will not stop because of what I have done or what I have failed to do . ’ |
| 25 | Placing his office Bible on the negotiating table , he said solemnly : The President strongly believes in the words of the Holy Book as do you . |
| 26 | In the words of the Irish ballad , the birds they were singing from tree to tree . |
| 27 | In any event , unlike the autumn of 1557 , the time was now certainly ripe for the peculiar inspiration of John Knox , the man who , in the words of the English diplomat Randolph , ‘ is able in one hour to put more life into us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears ’ , and who would later be described by the same diplomat in 1561 , a week after Mary 's return to Scotland , as the preacher who ‘ thundereth out of the pulpit … he ruleth the roast , and of him all men stand in fear ’ . |
| 28 | They have seen that , in the words of the philosopher G.E . |
| 29 | It may be observed that the object of EWO intervention under the ESO is to ensure , in the words of the Act , that the child is ‘ properly educated ’ . |
| 30 | It was only the proclamation , in the words of the head of the White armies , Denikin , of ‘ Great Russia , One and Indivisible ’ , as well as later Bolshevik efforts to rectify the situation , that persuaded Muslim nationalists to opt for Moscow . |