Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 2 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 3 | This of course put me in the wrong . |
| 4 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 5 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 6 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 7 | Alternatively , however , it may be that considerations of meaning take us beyond the scope of scientific method . |
| 8 | Lovers of opera know it as the setting to Benatsky 's ‘ White Horse ’ operetta : you can still enjoy eating apple strudel and cream on the balcony of the 350 year old White Horse Inn . |
| 9 | This is not surprising when one considers the ways in which the attitudes and structures of society condition us from the early years of life . |
| 10 | Its status as written narrative fiction and its function as a means of communication provide it with the wherewithal to participate actively in present-day debates about the future of social institutions . |
| 11 | All of us who bear the name of Catholic join you at the outset of Lent , we say ‘ we 're with you ’ . |
| 12 | What clues do the source information , length of book , date of publication and length of discussion give you about the nature of the different writings ? |
| 13 | Where standard discussions of autonomy place it in the context of rights , freedom and equality , paternalism and rationality , here it is discussed in conjunction with questions of fantasy , how we treat others , social and personal relations , and responsibilities . |
| 14 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |
| 15 | The three schoolmasters upon whom he looked back with gratitude tell something about the boy : ( 1 ) a clear-headed Anglo-Catholic priest with a rasp of a voice who taught classics , Henry Balmforth : ( 2 ) the librarian Burd , a true classical scholar , and the only master in the school said not to know the name of the captain of cricket : ( 3 ) a gentle teacher ( Hayward ) , more expert at moths and butterflies than adolescents . |
| 16 | If I wish to buy a manufactured object from a shopkeeper , the shopkeeper must first obtain it from a wholesaler , the wholesaler must then in turn obtain it from the manufacturer , who must in turn obtain components and raw materials from other suppliers further down the line . |
| 17 | What is … surprising and disquieting is the fact that those who might be expected ex officio have a profound and permanent appreciation of literature may in reality have nothing of the sort . |
| 18 | He suggested a questionnaire about the team 's strip should appear in fanzine Fly Me To The Moon . |
| 19 | I subscribe wholeheartedly to these views and would not in fact restrict them to the " later history " . |
| 20 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
| 21 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 22 | Very few of the works on display provide us with the child 's perspective on the word , a notable exception being Sonia Boyce 's arresting ‘ Big Woman 's Talk ’ ( 1984 ) where the sense of scale is ordered in a way that the child 's view is paramount . |
| 23 | Who on earth put it in the car certainly were n't me . |
| 24 | Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform . |
| 25 | The festival days , the sacred plays and dance , the processions which move jangling through the villages at night quicken us to the hidden rhythms by which the island lives . |
| 26 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |