Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the whole vexed question of Guy Sterne , her mixed-up feelings about him , and his true motives for offering her the design job , occupied her mind throughout her journey . |
| 2 | CELTIC boss Liam Brady has offered Derry boy Nigel Melly a one year extension to his contract — just weeks after showing him the door . |
| 3 | The court gave effect to this clause , stating that the parties should have considered the potential difficulties of using what the court called " a single alternative dispute resolution process " for all disputes under the contract before making their contract . |
| 4 | There would also be related difficulties in quantifying what the company had lost as a result of board passivity . |
| 5 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 6 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 7 | The USSR Supreme Soviet , in a resolution of Feb. 25 , declared that the decision by republican authorities not to hold the referendum violated citizens ' civil rights by denying them the right to vote . |
| 8 | PEPs originally were designed as part of the Government 's plan to help more people become share owners by offering them the chance to invest in the Stock Exchange . |
| 9 | Given that an individual has a purpose in seeking training in a second language , there is a whole range of in-built techniques for learning which the student can bring to the learning environment . |
| 10 | Power trickles down the edifice with the effect that those who actually deliver the service , teachers and lecturers , are the least powerful in terms of determining what the service is about , how it performs , how it should develop . |
| 11 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 12 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 13 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |
| 14 | It is at least plausible that the cryptic advertisements widely adopted by cigarette advertisers in the UK work insidiously but effectively on children by offering them the reward of deciphering the hidden messages in ( for example ) the Benson & Hedges Pure Gold adverts : if they can understand and recognise them , they join an adult conspiracy or club . |
| 15 | That said , you can add a new lease of life to old hard disks by giving them the once-over with Norton Disk Doctor or SpinRite . |