Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 61 | Under the rule of the Incas this inertia expressed itself in the stagnation of commerce … in the lack of vitality and the absence of originality in the arts , in dogmatism in science , and in the rareness of even the simplest inventions . |
| 62 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 63 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 64 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 65 | His name too , with all its starkness and its distinctly masculine aura , fitted him exactly — though this man possessed none of the innocence and wonder the first Adam must have had in his Garden of Eden . |
| 66 | However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well . |
| 67 | So I want to , first of all , in presenting this report to remind you of the importance of that link and for us to encourage its development . |
| 68 | A few seconds brought him to the oak . |
| 69 | When people from this background find themselves in the middle of an industrial set-up , it is not easy for them to adjust their values or frames of reference , just as people from an industrial society , used to individual wages and jobs , would feel confused if suddenly thrust into a peasant society . |
| 70 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 71 | They and others who employ what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy appear , then , to believe that this model insulates them from the arguments I have been discussing . |
| 72 | This account says something about the nature of invention . |
| 73 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 74 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 75 | This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing . |
| 76 | This Summer took them on the festival trail , with impressive shows at Féile and Reading to their credit . |
| 77 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 78 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 79 | This status exempts it from the need to obtain full FSA authorisation , but only while its FSA-regulated business is limited to " arranging deals in investments " . |
| 80 | I wish finally in this introduction to say something of the nature of the question which feminism is raising here for Christianity . |
| 81 | There are some guys want me out the way . ’ |
| 82 | This walk takes you on the coastal path around to Polkerris and then back to your start point on the Saints ' Way — a 35-mile route which crosses Cornwall from Padstow to Fowey . |
| 83 | This walk takes you through the Talybont Valley to the summit of Tor y Foel . |
| 84 | This walk takes you through the water meadows and along the towpaths of the Somerset moors . |
| 85 | This walk takes you through the National Trust for Scotland 's Kintail estate to the summit of Beinn Fhada . |
| 86 | This walk takes you through the heart of the reserve to Lochan a' Choire . |
| 87 | This walk takes you through the Whinlatter Forest and up through the trees to the top of Grisedale Pike at 2,593ft . |
| 88 | This walk takes you around the Tunstall Valley in the area around the Waskerley Beck . |
| 89 | This walk takes you by the River Bure to Upton Dyke and then back along quiet lanes and through woods and fields . |
| 90 | The feel-good factor within this agency differentiates us from the financial engineers . ’ |