Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legitimate requests A request based on the manager 's authority and right to know as prescribed by the firm 's regulations . |
| 2 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 3 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Thompson , secretary of Darlington Milk Buyers Company Ltd , who supply 33 dairymen in the town , said they had been only too happy to help when approached by the borough council . |
| 5 | This blind adherence to ancient beliefs dating from times when all nature was a mystery and man 's efforts to penetrate the enigma of his beginnings quite beyond his mental capacity , is even more difficult to understand when viewed in the light of his advances along all other frontiers of knowledge . |
| 6 | It is difficult to realise when walking around the area that you are only twelve miles away from Hull , the surrounding woodlands creating a block to the sights and sounds of modern living . |
| 7 | Strangely , small private and club aircraft accidents are frequently more difficult to investigate because compared with the scheduled passenger transport flight the route to be followed and the flight procedures carried out are far less definitive and predictable . |
| 8 | They understood faith to be an assent of the mind as agreeable to reason as assenting to the existence of objects on a table . |