Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was crude and probably impracticable , but it embodied an idea that has now come into its own in the age of the silicon chip . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 3 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 4 | These call-slips , as submitted , already contained much of the information required , but for the purposes of the Survey additional information was added to them both by the members of staff to whom they were submitted , and by fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who physically examined the requested items before their delivery to readers . |
| 5 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 6 | In TRACE II , a parallel architecture is employed in which each of the nodes is a relatively simple processing element which continues to send activation and inhibition to other nodes for as long as it remains active . |
| 7 | The two members , Simmel emphasized , are interdependent , for ‘ the secession of either would destroy the whole ’ social unit , and its ‘ affective structure is based on what each of the two participants gives or shows only to the one other person and to nobody else ’ . |
| 8 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 9 | It was impossible for him to have escaped on his own for the door was secured by a wedge , pushed through a hasp to hold the hinged staple in place . |
| 10 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 11 | Likewise , less expensive , sparkling wines from farther afield are also being brought into their own by the champagne houses ' hauteur . |
| 12 | The Fauves , who owed more to Gauguin from a purely pictorial standpoint , inherited from him some of the spontaneity and decorative rhythms of Polynesian art ; and by 1907 both Matisse and Derain had absorbed into their own work some of the formal properties of tribal sculpture . |
| 13 | Matey was seated on her own in the parlour , darning , and there was no sign of McAllister . |
| 14 | It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary . |
| 15 | There is a growing realisation that science and technology have embodied within them many of the ideological assumptions of the society which has given rise to them . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
| 17 | Dot tried not to mind being left on her own in the basement . |
| 18 | This may mean that a mother is left on her own in the ward , while all the other mothers are sitting there nursing their babies . |
| 19 | When I was left on my own after the death of Uncle , my beasts became my family , I suppose . |
| 20 | All the visitors brought home with them visual memories of the sights they had seen , the feelings they had experienced and , in particular , the tremendous warmth and hospitality extended to us all by the Norwegians . |