Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven .
2 Under these circumstances the process we know to be distributed across all of the input/output cell connections appears to be localized in one neuron .
3 What we are doing is providing information for perhaps clinicians to act on , we also in the future hope to develop the information we have into something useful , and in some cases the information we have already .
4 Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events .
5 In some places the path we followed was marked out by deep scratches in the rocks , made by the claws of countless rockhopper penguins who have followed the same traditional route for centuries .
6 However for many who live and/or work in such communities the picture he paints is recognisable .
7 When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them .
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