Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , hypertensive subjects tend to increase their weight as the disease progresses ( Chiang et al , 1969 ; Tyroler et al , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | If Niki the man slips through this net of approbation , much of the fault must rest with his own capacity to mythologize , his utter disrespect for those who seek to read his mind and the kinds of people he has always kept about him , like court jesters , to keep his market value high . |
| 3 | For three days they parleyed ; Rawn demanding their surrender and the Nez Perce asking to be allowed into Montana in peace . |
| 4 | One respondent wrote : ‘ About a month before the baby was born I remember asking my aunt where the baby would come from . |
| 5 | So go get your notebook and the calculator , will you ? |
| 6 | Yet Steiger , the bigotted southern sheriff , is at first loathe to enlist his help and the two form a somewhat uneasy alliance . |
| 7 | What happens if , while you are under notice of dismissal , you wish to leave your job before the notice expires in order to work elsewhere ? |
| 8 | For example , the employees who reject their manager 's ultimatum and vote for industrial action have withdrawn their concession that the manager can control their behaviour . |
| 9 | I have noted your suggestion that the countryside which surrounds Queensferry should be given Green Belt status . |
| 10 | And secondly we do recognize the quality of the countryside South of Cleveland and need to retain its character and the lit the character of its villages which erm in fact do add to the attractions of the area when you 're trying to e erm bring in new industry . |
| 11 | MANY people have contacted our office since the showing of the moving film ‘ Wide-Eyed and Legless ’ ( on BBC on Sunday last ) , saying that their friends and relatives received an insight into the illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ( ME ) which they had not appreciated before . |
| 12 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |
| 13 | The irony — ironies litter this affair — is that the mortal danger to Rushdie and his fellow-writers elsewhere remains just as acute , even when some of the fiercest original proponents of the fatwa have softened their stance since the fury of four years ago . |
| 14 | Each religion and religious tradition has been subject to geographical , historical and sociological factors which have influenced its vocabulary and the thought-forms enshrined within that vocabulary , and which have become unknowingly exclusive of the insights of others . |
| 15 | Complaints from some neighbours have forced his landlord and the local council to ask him to find an alternative site . |
| 16 | WILLIAMS : I am sorry I have incurred your displeasure and the more as I have been told by Lady Jones that you had a more honourable view than at first was apprehended . |
| 17 | In the case of the Blackwood By-Pass , I have passed your letter and the public consultation paper to our Gwent Branch in the hope that they will be able to look at the scheme in more detail . |
| 18 | TRIPS to Ireland recently have reinforced my view that the P ( probationer ) plate carried by those cars driven by people who have passed their driving test within the last year , are a good thing and should be adopted here . |
| 19 | Commercial organisations like the Co-operative Retail Society , the Co-operative Wholesale Society , Marks & Spencer and Iceland have expressed their horror that the Government should so abdicate their responsibility as to say , ’ We shall do nothing if you break the law , ’ and weakly add the unconvincing refrain , as the Home Office Minister did , ’ But we 'd rather like it if you did n't . ’ |
| 20 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 21 | Walking out on your partner may not be the answer to midlife change and you may not want a divorce , but you are likely to find that you need to update your relationship if the marriage is to be sound and mutually satisfying for another twenty or thirty years . |