Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 32 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 33 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 34 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 35 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 36 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |
| 37 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 38 | But for each individual student , the best thing is to put everything into the private account . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's the hymns that are the great stumbling block , ’ Everard went on , ‘ but really the only thing is to abandon oneself to the words uncritically and let them flow over one . ’ |
| 40 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 41 | James laughed , ‘ Look at them , Angus , look at the people , they are rampant now , this is better than ‘ Forty-five , nobody is dying , no royal fop is leading us into the bog . |
| 42 | Sometimes the only answer is to bring it off the way it went on , layer by layer . |
| 43 | Our novelist 's intellectual humour is asserting itself beneath the narrative . |
| 44 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 45 | Milpitas , California-based , LSI Logic Corp is catapulting itself into the X terminal market introducing the RISC-based Racer X Board , which allows OEMs to build monochrome or colour X-terminals based on the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 RISC . |
| 46 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 47 | Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee . |
| 48 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 49 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 50 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 51 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 52 | The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape . |
| 53 | She sees natural sex differences as providing the basis for a critique of certain philosophical conceptions which exclude women , and in that way is enlisting them on the side of feminism . |
| 54 | There is no money , the country is in a crisis from which there seems no way out , and anyone who wants hard currency is selling anything of the slightest interest . |
| 55 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 56 | the company is involving them in the quality process and they are now under pressure to meet ICI 's quality standards . |
| 57 | Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices . |
| 58 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 59 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 60 | The best way to test the quality of porridge is to throw it at the wall . |