Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking near doorways or the kerb puts you within range of a hidden attacker or a parked car . |
| 2 | Basically these problems attend many surgical operations , and the question resolves itself into whether the transsexual should be allowed to consent ; whether , in other words , the state has an interest in striking out such consent , and thereby rendering the surgeon who goes ahead liable in tort , on the ground that he can not rely on such consent . |
| 3 | There is a wide choice of dinner menu and the management prides itself on offering service of a fine standard . |
| 4 | This intimate family hotel offers a warm welcome to a homely atmosphere and the management prides itself on offering a choice of good local cooking in its dining-room . |
| 5 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |
| 6 | It is offered on a half board basis and the management prides itself on its reputation for the good quality home-cooking . |
| 7 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 8 | The camera signals are stored in separate buffers and the controller reads them at twice the rate at which they were written . |
| 9 | ‘ You create a cash market tor Polar bear fur and the Eskimo spends it on booze . |
| 10 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 11 | The roots grow huge , sculptural wings to buttress the tree and the climber wraps itself around the lapuna , which slowly decays inside it . |
| 12 | Some of the scenery between the city and the seaside reminds me of the industrial landscape around Mephistco Plant Number Three , but the light 's even duller . |
| 13 | Orders won since September nineteen eighty nine are in excess of sixty five million pounds and the company says its in a good position to take advantage of an anticipated upturn in work in the mid nineties . |
| 14 | The KSR1 is scalable to 1,088 custom 64-bit CMOS processors and the company claims it to be the fastest computer currently available and deliverable , a full KSR1–1088 configuration delivering peak performance of 43 GFLOPS with 34Gb of memory . |
| 15 | If someone wants to become a shareholder and the company wants him to , he will be entered on the register and issued with a share certificate without more ado . |
| 16 | We have divided the council 's activities into cost centres and the system allows us to instantly analyse the information in tabular form . |
| 17 | A girl lives in the image of her mother , and the mothers sees herself in the child . |
| 18 | Or it might say hand wash only and the customer puts it in a washing machine . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 20 | One provides us with food , one provi , puts bits together and the other provides us with a service . |
| 21 | Elvira is a bit weak , but the Don is doing fine , and the orchestra has plenty of dash . |
| 22 | Until recently it has tended to be a middle-class , if not an upper-class , home where the father prides himself on being able to provide well for his family , and the mother prides herself on being a good ‘ homemaker ’ who runs the establishment with precise efficiency , giving careful consideration to the basic ( i.e. material ) needs of all the occupants . |
| 23 | Macintosh System 7 : You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to the church . |
| 24 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 25 | The soul abdicates quickly and the flesh abandons itself to shudders . |
| 26 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 27 | Go first to the albeit small exhibition : in Prince Charles the backlash against modernism has an impassioned protagonist and the display leaves one in no doubt about his views . |
| 28 | Mention that a species is rare and the world wants it on its mantelpiece or in its collection . |
| 29 | Since Parliament has not conferred complete autonomy on a 16-year-old in the field of medical treatment , there is no overriding limitation to preclude the exercise by the court of its inherent jurisdiction and the matter becomes one for the exercise by the court of its discretion . |
| 30 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |