Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we have a repetition of the childhood in which the parent 's weakness contributed to the unconscious need for punishment . |
| 2 | This is arguably the fundamental point made by a famous set of attempted proofs of God 's existence associated with the medieval theologian , Aquinas . |
| 3 | All four versions include a skipper 's cabin accessed from the upper deck only and sandwiched between the anchor well and the forward bulkhead of the owner 's cabin . |
| 4 | Further exhibits depict the opening of the West , Whaling ( with a Captain 's Cabin reproduced from the last of the great Yankee whalers ) , Textiles ( with a fine collection of quilts and hooked rugs ) , Pewter , Glass and Silver . |
| 5 | Red-headed England 's Glory spilled across the bare boards of the floor . |
| 6 | But Whitaker 's luck changed in the four rider Horsemaster final when he again looked likely to finish as a runner-up . |
| 7 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |
| 8 | The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations . |
| 9 | As former champions , Queen 's Club rested in the fourth round — head and shoulders above the Area 5 pack . |
| 10 | It is one of the several enzymes involved in the central process of a cell 's metabolism known as the citric acid or Krebs cycle . |
| 11 | However , as has already been pointed out , Thorndyke 's study differed from the two earlier ones in that he used passages which maintained clear temporal sequencing , and clear clausal connections in both narrative conditions . |
| 12 | There are the customary chases and close-shaves , the best of which has Ford and Connery 's car pursued by the flaming fuselage of a German plane . |
| 13 | Laura 's mouth parted beneath the soft pressure of his tongue as he groaned against her lips . |
| 14 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 15 | John Prescott , the shadow transport secretary , said the announcement confirmed ‘ further delay , uncertainty and planning blight with the line 's completion pushed into the next century , not the end of the decade ’ . |
| 16 | De Gaulle 's plan touched off the first major political storm of the postwar era , which rumbled on throughout the rest of the summer . |
| 17 | At the time of writing , synthetic insulin — which to the scientist is chemically identical to that secreted in the pancreas — can not be administered to diabetic people because it simply does not work ; yet pig 's insulin injected into the human body does ! |
| 18 | Whatever else there is to say about the States , it exists to be driven in ; a road runner 's playground littered with the seductive comforts of the drive-in-drive-out lifestyle . |
| 19 | Two of the government 's most important objectives are to reduce the proportion of the nation 's wealth consumed by the public sector and to reduce the extent to which individuals are held back by the public sector … |
| 20 | In 1982 , ( fifty years , after the sculptor 's death excluding the statutory ‘ war years ’ ) Rodin 's work moved into the public domain , although the Musée Rodin retained its ‘ droit moral ’ . |
| 21 | Now , as she wearily trailed behind him into the main living-room , Laura 's nose wrinkled at the musty , stale atmosphere of the room . |
| 22 | As CPRW 's Director emphasised at the recent Euro-conference on Sustainability in Cardiff , we now have ‘ historic opportunities ’ to plan a sustainable society and to ‘ avoid the mistakes of the past ’ . |
| 23 | His father 's business suffered during the Great Depression , and young Sam had to work his way through Missouri University by delivering newspapers . |
| 24 | Three problems , in particular , confront us , the extent of the fall in England 's population caused by the Black Death and by subsequent epidemics , the chronology of decline and recovery , and the possible redistribution of population throughout the country . |
| 25 | Indeed , according to Hamnett and Williams ( 1980 ) , gentrification or ‘ Chelseafication ’ was already proceeding rapidly in London during the 1970s — to the extent that the proportion of professional , managerial and intermediate non-manual workers in Inner London 's population increased by the same amount as for Greater London as a whole ( Hamnett , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the changing age structure of Britain 's population described in the previous chapters will lead to increasing demands on the workforce of the twenty-first century to support an ageing population . |
| 27 | Robert Schore 's article printed in the first edition has been edited leaving only his case examples to save duplication of the information which is now in a more expanded form in John Tomlinson 's essay . |
| 28 | This concludes Tony Birdwood 's article begun in the last issue . |
| 29 | It 's a carpenter 's tool tuned for the top notes . |
| 30 | The second half was pretty hectic but Jackson 's confidence spread to the entire defence and the star-studded City forward line grew more and more frustrated as their celebration night went sour . |