Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to have taken to the Foundling child the moment she set eyes on her , and there was no doubt in Betty 's mind that Corrie was the sole reason for her being offered the work . |
| 2 | Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation . |
| 3 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 4 | erm One of them is called the Teaching Company Scheme , in which partners from universities and manufacturing companies get together to tackle problems with the objective of increasing manufacturing performance in some area . |
| 5 | And they give you you get four keys and one of them is called the chauffeur 's key |
| 6 | One of them is called the Alamo and in 1836 became one of the shrines , not only of Texan history , but of the history of the United States . |
| 7 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 8 | The men then unloaded the corn into the side bays each of which was called the gof — or goafstead . |
| 9 | The photographs were arranged behind glass in a small anteroom above the door of which was printed the legend : ‘ The Martyrs of Hama ’ . |
| 10 | During its restoration , a storm blew down a huge walnut tree in the roots of which was found the church 's bell , one of the oldest in Hungary . |
| 11 | Roith is particularly proud of what is called the teaching company scheme . |
| 12 | Later , when the infant becomes capable of relating to whole objects , such as the mother instead of just the breast , it develops more integrative mechanisms in terms of what is called the depressive position . |
| 13 | Many calculations have been made of what is termed the chain modulus from the force constants such as those in Table 1.2 . |
| 14 | And although these exceptions will grow with the introduction and development of Executive Agencies , the overwhelming majority of what are called the appropriation accounts are in a form prescribed by the Treasury . |
| 15 | At no point had any of us been told the procedure that would lead to us being selected to start our basic training . |
| 16 | Most of us were taught the wisdom of saving regularly , which brings us to one of the most sensible ways of investing — the unit trust monthly saving scheme , and best of all through a personal equity plan . |
| 17 | This region is threaded along what is called the path of stationary action , since the latter is by definition the path from which small changes of trajectory produce negligible changes of action . |
| 18 | One such resided in the existence of a story-teller : an individual in whom were preserved the history of the village , the life of the community and the lore and legends of the surrounding land and sea . |
| 19 | They called the islands of Great Britain ‘ the Cassiterides ’ — from which was derived the name for tin oxide , cassiterite . |
| 20 | ‘ … In him was united the genius of the manufacturer and the habits of a scientific investigator ’ . |
| 21 | In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path . |
| 22 | Hypnosis takes place in what is called the Alpha state ( the subconscious mind ) . |
| 23 | In what is called the Coriolis effect , the northward moving sea water is pushed to its right , while the southward fresh water moves to its right . |
| 24 | They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma . |
| 25 | Around this swathing , for about two-thirds of the length of the trunk from the hips upward , were several turns of a well-made twisted cord , fastened in what is called the half-hitch , in good preservation . ’ |
| 26 | and then nearly next door to the conservative club , the chap that 's hiring the minibus from us is called The Horse Fayre Tavern . |
| 27 | To them was ordained the task of shaping the social matrix within which ordinary men had their being . |
| 28 | If granted , taxation is carried out on the ‘ indemnity basis ’ but it is presumed that the costs ( a ) have been reasonably incurred , if they were incurred with the express or implied approval of the client ; ( b ) have been reasonable in amount , if their amount was expressly or impliedly approved by the client ; ( c ) have been unreasonably incurred , if in the circumstances of the case they are of an unusual nature , unless the solicitor satisfies the taxing officer that prior to their being incurred the client was informed that they might not be allowed on taxation of costs . |
| 29 | And in all of them homosexuality echoes Augustinian privation — the more pernicious for being deeply , inherently inadequate , a kind of non-being and inauthenticity : an inimical absence which provokes paranoia and on to which is projected the fear of difference inherent within sexual difference . |
| 30 | A thin layer of cooked cold porridge is spread in the bottom of the tub to which is added the microworm starter culture . |