Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gauzlin rode there , and when Walter threatened to kill any monk whom he found on the land , Gauzlin replied that he had a plentiful supply of confessors at Fleury . |
| 2 | You 'll find that the vast majority of competent people in any field of science , culture or management are connected with Civic Forum ; all areas indeed apart from religion which we leave to the church . |
| 3 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 4 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 5 | There was a card which you received from the er clerk at the desk , they were introduced , the clerks were introduced in order to note everybody 's time . |
| 6 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 7 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 8 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 9 | He 's an archetypal nice bloke who is the first to get his round in at the Blighty Bar , an after-hours drinking club which we establish on the steps of the hotel after we discover that Tokyo shuts at 10.30 . |
| 10 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 11 | I was fourteen at the time , so was she ; she sent me a signed photograph which I keep in the breast pocket of my school blazer until both photograph and blazer fell apart . |
| 12 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 13 | Tell me something about your urinal which you sent to the Independents Exhibition , signed R. Mutt ? |
| 14 | Again , few long-standing customers will surely want to compromise their future bargaining position by revealing to the court the true weight which they gave to the various considerations before them prior to the placing of interim contracts with the employer . |
| 15 | He owned a motor launch named Splash which he lost to the Navy in the war . |
| 16 | In a broadcast talk which he gave in the spring of 1941 , " Towards a Christian Britain " , he talked about the sacrifices which would be necessary to bring about such a national conversion , and the need for Christian " prophets " who would alter the social consciousness of the people . |
| 17 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 18 | In Western industrial society , the means of production are owned by the capitalist whereas the workers own only their labour which they hire to the employer in return for wages . |
| 19 | Similarly , in the capitalist era , there are two main classes : the ‘ bourgeoisie ’ or capitalist class which owns the means of production , and the ‘ proletariat ’ or working class whose members own only their labour which they hire to the bourgeoisie in return for wages . |
| 20 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 21 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 22 | She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins . |
| 23 | Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table . |
| 24 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
| 25 | The writer 's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what , without this book , he would perhaps never have perceived in himself . |
| 26 | The mudskipper manages to do so by holding water in its mouth which it swills over the lining of its mouth with a rolling action of its head to extract the oxygen . |
| 27 | ‘ Probably a touch of heartburn which you associated with the lump because you were worried about it . |
| 28 | they speak out , they 're clear what they want , what they do n't want mind you they go over the top a little bit |
| 29 | He was also a superb phonetician , and a master of mimicry , a technique which he used to the full as a raconteur . |
| 30 | This year we are faced with considerable financial difficulty since the grant which we receive from the Sports Council towards our administration expenses has been cut . |