Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] and the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This is something we opposed since day one , but the majority voted for it and the majority has to prevail .
2 You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth .
3 Opposition crumbled before him and the path he followed was strewn with gold .
4 Morris was no stranger to the environmental impact of river works , as is shown by a confrontation recorded between him and the Thames Conservancy Board concerning riverside willows which they had felled near Hammersmith .
5 The second has one twist placed in it and the third has two twists in it .
6 The seventh prayer in the long version concerns the suffering before Annas , Caiaphas , Pilate and Herod , but more especially the moment when Christ looks at Peter after he has denied him ( Luke 22:55 — 62 ) : The short version , typically , focuses more sharply , concentrating only on the episode with Peter so that there is an identification made between him and the meditator and , by implication , all men who by their natures inevitably betray Christ : The Longleat version of this subject shows by comparison how much less effective than either of the others it is .
7 In this case , the package has an additional reference attached to it and the whole article is known as a Product .
8 In this case , the package has an additional reference attached to it and the whole article is known as a Product .
9 And one of these old chaps said , ‘ Bloody hell , he 's had a 50-ton bomb dropped on him and the bugger 's still alive ! ’
10 The tool interface is open and can be accessed by any third-party tool written to it and the company is looking to integrate it with engineering frameworks like Atherton , SoftBench and so on .
11 Each possible parse is completed , a score associated with it and the highest scoring parse selected .
12 McGrain , capped 62 times by Scotland and a member of the SFA 's Hall of Fame , was unable to use the free ticket given to him and the rest of that elite group for all Scotland 's matches .
13 This inevitably means a reduction in the institutional care and education offered by them and the formation of new apostolates .
14 Me know the answer ! , in contrast , both the extra-verbal person evoked by me and the generalized person incorporated within the infinitive know as the support of a merely potential knowing are situated in the present , which explains the absence of to and the fact that this sentence can be used to call into question the possibility that the speaker has the knowledge at the present moment .
15 In 1314 the northern clergy were asked by the king for an ‘ aid ’ for his projected campaign against the Scots , a request repeated to them and the southern clergy in 1316 .
16 Choices of language , decisions regarding objectives , content , the priority accorded to them and the criteria for determining them all have to be made , renewed and periodically revised .
17 Then he walked deeper into the trees as the twilight thickened around him and the stars began appearing among the branches over his head .
18 His blanket roll , with the cartridge belt wrapped around it and the Spencer inside with part of the barrel and stock showing , was next to him .
19 Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace .
20 There is no love lost between her and the Queen .
21 The crowd gathered round us and the atmosphere was marvellous .
22 Still on Highway 15 , the only road through Nevada , we cut a swathe to the Mammon City located between us and the High Altar .
23 However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection .
24 The understanding reached between them and the catholic — nationalist lay leadership resulted in schooling in the future state being allocated to the domain of the church , in exchange for the legitimation of that state by the church leadership .
25 Unlike some MPs he has n't let his duties as a minister come between him and the people who elected him .
26 The taxpayer paid for it and the taxpayer is entitled to know what 's in it , ’ he said .
27 In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified .
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