Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look forward especially to a future opportunity to develop his views on the desirability of keeping national insurance contributions as low as possible and of working out exactly how that fits in with the policies of some of his right hon. and hon. Friends , but that is for another occasion , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 2 | All round , an interesting tool , that sits comfortably in the hand , is kind to the elbow , and does n't cost an arm and a leg . |
| 3 | That sits oddly with the fact that the board was reconstituted as recently as May 1990 and has been rationalised , streamlined and reinvigorated since that date . |
| 4 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 5 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 6 | What do , in terms of erm , terms of prostitution , is that act , is that , does that bother you or are you not bo bothered really about the fact that that goes on in the area ? |
| 7 | ‘ That goes out of the window when you become an outlaw . |
| 8 | I think that covers most of the items in the agreement , erm , with some identification of new work that needs to be done during the year , but recognizing that during the course of the year , we have succeeded in following the main points from the agreement that was , was put forward er , I think , it was December this time last year . |
| 9 | Now , Julie has a modern kitchen that 's been carefully designed to make good use of all the available space , and that blends in with the style of the rest of the house . |
| 10 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 11 | That stands away from the wall . |
| 12 | The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself . |
| 13 | I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city . |
| 14 | This sits easily with the view summarised earlier that there are " facts " in the world , recorded in various ways , and the task of research is to gather the appropriate ones in light of the resources and circumstances affecting the particular research project . |
| 15 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 16 | And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes . |
| 17 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 18 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 19 | This plays totally into the hands of the negative forces . |
| 20 | This refers primarily to the provision of services under Part III of the Act as discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 21 | Mainstream elitism is now represented by writers such as Keller and Aron , as we discussed earlier ; this refers mainly to the interactions and functions of ruling and strategic elites , and though it differs in emphasis from earlier writings , these writers appear to have normative assumptions not radically removed from those of the classical elite theorists . |
| 22 | This differs considerably from the version found in the theatre score . |
| 23 | Second , we have already noted that the adjective is questioned with the word how ? , generally related to adverbial elements , rather than the which ? that is used for attributives , and this agrees well with the structure of ( 16 ) , where the adjective property qualifies a verbal structure , not a nominal one ( i.e. a structure centred on a property , not an entity ) . |
| 24 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 25 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 26 | This looks more like The Lord of the Rings , where many of the characters — Éomer , Faramir , Aragorn again — are very much of the stamp of old Siward or Coriolanus or other Shakespearean heroes . |
| 27 | This looks very like the rerun of a scenario first enacted in the early years of this century , when two unknown expatriate American poets attacked a torpid English literary establishment in the name of nascent modernism , looking to France for their intellectual inspiration and their models of literary achievement . |
| 28 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 29 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 30 | However , landscapes can now be seen in a variety of ways , in pictures , from the air , and in maps ( Johnson and Pitzl , 1981 ) and this adds further to the list of problems yet to be solved in Lowenthal 's ( 1978 ) excellent essay on finding valued landscapes which include varieties of taste , the effect of social milieu , the distinction between landscape and place , differences between public and professional preferences , whether tastes are innate or learnt , the effect of literary and historical factors , season , time of day , viewpoint chosen and direction of view , novelty and familiarity , distance and memory lending enchantment , personal sensitivity and intensity of feelings , and the effect of experience and training . |