Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 2 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 3 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 4 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 5 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 6 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 7 | And it will be an exclusivist world in which the rich countries insulate themselves from the pressure of migration , and the threat of terrorism . |
| 8 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 9 | Even Japanese companies do nothing of the sort ! |
| 10 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 11 | The official ones get it from the government back home , the rest have to earn it . |
| 12 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 13 | Thus ‘ olde ’ journalistic memories acquire something of the patina of antiques , ordinary at the time , but with hindsight , quaint and even charming . |
| 14 | Members of most non-Western societies regard themselves as the most superior form of being , in possession of the most desirable qualities . |
| 15 | Self-worth motivated children protect themselves from the risk of failure on a high status task ; they maintain that they could succeed , but see no point in making the effort . |
| 16 | How do human beings distinguish which of the many elements of the context are relevant ? |
| 17 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 18 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |
| 19 | Wagnerian storm clouds gather doomily as millions of curious souls cram themselves into the multi-tiered arena of the High Court in downtown Afterlife City . |
| 20 | Cosy armchairs greet you in the marble lobby from where you can wander off to enjoy the lovely piano bistro or de luxe restaurant . |
| 21 | Two other extremely good chapters include one on the granivorous genus Pogonomyrmex and the exciting area of cooperative colony foundation in Atta leafcutting ants . |
| 22 | Reconstructed interiors and extensive displays take you into the world of James Herriot . |
| 23 | Although Eoraptor is structurally close to the common dinosaurian ancestor , several advanced features place it among the saurischians as the most primitive known theropod ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 24 | It is as a result of resource monopoly that those important cases arise which in the language of the layman , the economist and the antitrust lawyer are called monopolistic production . |
| 25 | ( It is tempting to call this curve ‘ the tail ’ , though in fact the old mythological figures show it as the Bear 's head . ) |
| 26 | The physical anthropologists concern themselves with the history and distribution of the varieties of mankind considered as species and sub-species . |
| 27 | So , naturally , many insect-eating animals pursue them in the air . |
| 28 | About two-thirds of all temporary workers put themselves into the seasonal , temporary or casual category , though the proportion was much higher amongst those in lower level occupations and much lower amongst those in more skilled , and particularly in " professional " occupations [ see Table 2.4 ] . |
| 29 | Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition . |
| 30 | But there are also extensive external networks ( formal and informal ; electronic , written and oral ) to which we have links , and which in various ways bind us to the rest of the actors in the firm . |