Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb base] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by raising loans in New York and Paris could the Bank of England prop up the pound ; but foreign bankers were unwilling to risk their money unless the British Government balanced its budget . |
| 2 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 3 | GERMANY IS firing on all cylinders these days , and labels like MFS epitomise where the scene is headed over there . |
| 4 | New issues in Paris remain largely the preserve of French houses . |
| 5 | We will begin by illustrating the simplest form of melodic construction , where the melody is formed entirely by repetitions of a small rhythmic cell ( Example 11 ) : Example 11 is the first half of the melody , modulating from E minor to G. Notice how the melody , though apparently continuous , falls into four phrases , forming two main sentences . |
| 6 | we 'll go straight up to Taughmonagh go down the town early in the morning and I 'll take you to the shop where they maybe get you a rugby jumper |
| 7 | Two other works with which Eliot linked Malory 's ‘ profound , tribal , Sophoclean morality ’ were to form starting points for his own plays ; Aeschylus ' Tragedy of the House of Atreus and Sophocles ' Oedipus at Colonus underlie respectively The Family Reunion and The Elder Statesman . |