Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 2 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 3 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 4 | In terms of an artist who discovers the meaning in the making of a picture , he is , I think , the superior artist , and that Picasso really only matches him in the Cubist paintings where the meaning is found in the material in an extraordinary sense , with dapplings and little markings and so on . |
| 5 | The latter is a recognized field of work in its own right and some people in it might be surprised to find themselves called public relations operators , but the speciality derives from public relations and the counselling , reconciliatory and persuasive nature of the work comfortably fits it within the broader spectrum of public relations practice . |
| 6 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 7 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 8 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 9 | The new insight is that Grb2 associates with Sos1 , and thus recruits it to the activated receptor in the plasma membrane where Ras activation is presumed to take place . |
| 10 | The control exercised by Mosca 's ‘ ruling class ’ is held to be assured by the organisational capacity of the ruling minority : this is the basis of their power and the characteristic that best distinguishes them from the disorganised and powerless majority . |
| 11 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 12 | For example , yellow-orange CL of calcite generally distinguishes it from the darker red-crimson of dolomite , and feldspars are very bright blues , reds or greens compared with subdued violets and browns for quartz grains . |
| 13 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 14 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 15 | Mr Gorbachev still lacks them in the two areas that matter most . |
| 16 | Even if we drop a shot because Jacklin makes four , it still keeps us in the Open . |
| 17 | She has to have it and my nan always puts them in the same |
| 18 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 19 | That still leaves it with the human problem of what to do about its many customers , the sizeable backlog of orders they have created and the delays they face . |
| 20 | So that which makes man vulnerable to the force of the leaping devil , also opens him to the effortless strength of the leaping God which is known through the experience of inadequacy . |
| 21 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 22 | If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation . |
| 23 | If inserting pushes a word into the invisible right-hand margin , the wordwrap feature automatically moves it to the next line . |
| 24 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 25 | I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense ! |
| 26 | Ray Talbot has had an Omua pump on test for 18 months , and now sells them at The Real McKoi . |
| 27 | The question or why an accident occurred , when an investigator is in possession of all the information as to what occurred , inevitably brings him into the troubled waters of ‘ human factors ’ . |
| 28 | This now brings you to the extraordinary position , 20 years on , in which you are essentially at the same table as your old adversary Edward Heath … |
| 29 | It immediately protects us from the impossible situation one meets in the literature with remarks such as : " The Aalenian of Mr X , which is the Bajocian of Mr Y , should in fact be regarded as part of the Toarcian " . |
| 30 | Cooking to Please takes us into the 1990s . ’ |