Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road . |
| 2 | If the rules would otherwise indicate that the Steam Tank flees then the commander battens downs the hatch and does nothing until the end of his following turn . |
| 3 | Nationally the Liberals , chaired by David Moorish and boasting a logo that resembles something from the side of a soap powder box , will field around 70 candidates the next nearest is in Leeds . |
| 4 | The idea that there is some grand unified theory that determines everything in the universe raises many difficulties . |
| 5 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 6 | I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe . |
| 7 | He says that when people return to work after a holiday there is a lot of disruption and decreased productivity as a result of ‘ holiday infection that contaminates everyone around the person who has been away ’ . |
| 8 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 9 | ‘ I have kind of an idea that gets everybody off the hook . |
| 10 | Radcliffe 's description of the period 1788 – 1803 for Lancashire cotton weavers mingles experience and myth but conveys something of the style of the good times : " Their dwellings and small gardens clean and neat — all the family well clad — the men each with a watch in his pocket , and the women dressed to their own fancy — the church crowded to excess every Sunday — every house well furnished . " |
| 11 | So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared . |
| 12 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |