Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon .
2 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
3 Duosome Cream is a beauty product whose active ingredients include Elastin , Collagen , Vitamins E and F , together with liposomes which carry them beneath the skin to the cells below .
4 I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off .
5 Bond is still despised by Burnley supporters who blame him for the club 's demise after his season in charge eight years ago .
6 At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets .
7 Sorry , I think it 's worth noting some of the circumstances giving rise to Mrs Brown er committing the offences which bring her before the court today .
8 We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take .
9 Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring .
10 By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right .
11 That 's that 's the way we do fractions that 's the way you do adding up fractions or taking away fractions you change them to the same .
12 Where we have specific reservations we mention them in the text .
13 We 've got our single layer network as we know so we take all our inputs we push them through the decoders and we 've got our single layer after that .
14 Cos , at home you see er Dorothy and Trevor always read their stories in bed , and when I read their stories I have me on the arm chair two sitting on one chair arm
15 Among the liberal Russian press , Moskovskiye novosti of July 19 commented that " the SC has been given powers which raise it above the government " ; and Kommersant also compared the newly empowered SC to the former communist party politburo , because of its potential power , its secrecy and its non-accountability .
16 ‘ A word used by frightened children to describe nameless , formless horrors which await you in the fog , or around the next corner . ’
17 Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ .
18 This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment .
19 And that 's why we tell them and there are some other things you tell them on the phone of course which you 'll find out about on the training school .
20 People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more .
21 As in previous examples , the problematic items in the source text are underlined and the items which replace them in the target text are highlighted in bold .
22 There are many ways to learn about old age from older people , ways which put them into the ‘ expert ’ role .
23 Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class .
24 It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s .
25 These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens .
26 The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century .
27 In fact , I would suggest that anybody who has one ounce of individuality should never go to a business school — and I 've said this often at Cranfield and London — because you 're structured by academics who measure you in the science of business .
28 Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland .
29 Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) .
30 Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time .
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