Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Beloff submits that the requirement of notice to bodies , such as Winchester , was necessary to ensure that they did not breach the intervention notice , but in my view the limitation of the category of those entitled to be given notice to persons who will be prejudicially affected can only mean that it is the prejudice which brings with it the necessity to serve . |
| 2 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 3 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 4 | The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride . |
| 5 | You see , Christmas is linked with the season of Advent — the season of hope which sets before us the hope of his coming to restore all things and bring all things to a glorious conclusion . |
| 6 | Here is the verse and chorus which appealed to me the most . |
| 7 | The lighting of one hundred beacons , from Jersey to the Shetland Isles , the street parties and special events and the climactic procession by the Queen along a processional route lined by one million people waving Union Jacks under a murky grey sky — all of this implied an attempt to reclaim something permanent and enduring a sense of national pride — which had been systematically eroded by Britain 's loss of standing as a world power , and by some dark and mysterious incoming tide which carried with it the flotsam of unemployment , inflation , rising crime and social decay . |
| 8 | God could so easily say that , too , but he does not ; he negotiates from a basis of weakness which becomes for us the power of God unto salvation . |
| 9 | To tell us about their work I have with me the Director , Richard Jolly , two of the permanent fellows of the Institute , Dudley Sears and Carlos Fortin , and a visiting fellow Beana Aguwa . |
| 10 | Now , whatever is written by the second child you write under it the figure which will make the sum of both up to nine . |
| 11 | The greater the longing he felt for her the more sensible he had tried to be . |
| 12 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 13 | The giant ignored this and killed all the children , at which moment there appeared to him the ghosts of Gunda and Wolfhead . |
| 14 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 15 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |
| 16 | Sir I commend to you the expert evidence relating to the historic character and I hope sir when you visit this site , although it may look very different at this moment from the way it would have done had you been able to visit it after the originally scheduled date of this enquiry , when the daffodils were out , |
| 17 | Erades ( 1950 : 123 ) , for example , observes that while the sentence with the bare infinitive " can only mean one thing , viz. Will you share with me the work of addressing them ? " , that with the to infinitive allows the interpretation that " the help may be afforded by some other means , such as relieving the speaker of other duties or tasks " . |
| 18 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 19 | Congratulations to all graduates and welcome to membership of a special group of people of a wide variety of ages and careers , in all parts of the world who share with you the experience of studying at this University . |
| 20 | They stated : ‘ When manifesting in the physical world it brings with it the forces of attraction and repulsion and moves in a curved path or spiral . ’ |
| 21 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 22 | ‘ But it 's the primary school which deals with it the Monday after selection . |
| 23 | Bear in mind that if a total loss occurs you still have to pay any outstanding instalments and if a Motor policy is cancelled you are liable for premiums up to the date we receive from you the Certificate(s) of Insurance . |
| 24 | Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed . |
| 25 | And me and me mam we singing in it the other night , just to use up the tape . |
| 26 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |