Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 2 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 3 | If the board is sailed too close to the wind , the so called ‘ no-go ’ zone is entered within which the board will stop or even blow backwards . |
| 4 | An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet . |
| 5 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 6 | Kendall ( 1986 ) reminds us that accidents in infancy are related to what the child can do , so are related to stage of development , and quotes the relative incidence : |
| 7 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 9 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 10 | The essential point is that responsibility is assigned and , therefore , authority is delegated for which the individual is accountable in his role . |
| 11 | Here , an anaerobic ( oxygen-free ) environment is created through which the aquarium water is slowly trickled ( not to be confused with aerobic trickle filters ) . |
| 12 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 13 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 14 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 15 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
| 16 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 17 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 18 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 19 | Taboo is distinguished from what the Polynesians call noa , that is , the common , or the generally accessible . |
| 20 | The air flow is then stopped and the second stage of the cycle is begun in which the hot coke is blasted with steam . |
| 21 | Once the two continents have been welded together and active volcanism and tectonic uplift have ceased , a new plate is created in which the orogenic belt formed becomes an intra-plate feature no longer associated with an active convergent plate boundary . |
| 22 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 23 | Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity . |
| 24 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
| 25 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 26 | Rather , the young child 's response is determined by what the child thinks the adult 's question must mean . |
| 27 | Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call " stock responses . |
| 28 | This combination of the person-specificity of cloning and the generality of mapping led to reverse genetics , or positional cloning : the position of a mutation ( such as those causing muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis ) is first defined by genetic linkage , and then physical maps of the DNA sequence from the chromosomal location are made from which the mutation is plucked by a mixture of intuition and hard sequence data . |
| 29 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 30 | Now , though , a tendency is developing in which the idea of ‘ polytechnic education ’ is being reduced from ‘ many arts , many skills ’ to simply ‘ many skills ’ . |