Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 2 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |
| 3 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 4 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 5 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 6 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
| 7 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 8 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 9 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 10 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 11 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 12 | The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 13 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 14 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 15 | The sound reminds me of the bass sound on all those expensively-produced American AOR albums — smooth , almost too clean , but live there 's an enormous amount of wallop available . ’ |
| 16 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 17 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 18 | Centrally organised arrangements are sometimes not appropriate and that point brings me to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) . |
| 19 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 20 | A little more than three miles of excellent walking takes you past the Upper Steall ruins , down to the valley bottom where you can stop to admire the Steall waterfall . |
| 21 | Some of the scenery between the city and the seaside reminds me of the industrial landscape around Mephistco Plant Number Three , but the light 's even duller . |
| 22 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 23 | So important is Dublin 's goal that United 's first win of the season elevates them into the top half of the table behind reigning champions Leeds in 11th place . |
| 24 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 25 | But the fundamental incommensurability of idea and event re-emerges in a precariousness in this narrativization of history where each disturbance in the writing punctuates it with the unassimilable , discontinuous and disjunctive temporality of the event . |
| 26 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |
| 27 | Frodo uses it in the Old Forest : |
| 28 | The dog entered regularly in breed classes will need to be thoroughly groomed beforehand , standing still while its owner prepares it for the big event . |
| 29 | If I present my ideas in writing , my father marks them for the appropriate offices … |
| 30 | Continue west to Lillooet , where a breath-taking train ride through stunning mountainland delivers you to the world-renowned Whistler Resort . |