Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 2 | To determine the nature of the contract one must find the intention of the parties as shown by what they said and did . |
| 3 | Tomorrow detectives will be visiting houses in the Belmont area in the hope someone can identify the rapist . |
| 4 | ‘ Penman said just now that there was a river down there , beyond the garden , and that if one climbed the hill one could see the sea . |
| 5 | Then , when the first big shower starts , rather than stand under the wings in the rain everyone will desert the launch point for a cup of tea , leaving the gliders apparently well parked and weighted with tyres but , in fact , vulnerable to a change in the wind direction . |
| 6 | Because at the end of the day nobody would take the job . |
| 7 | For those believing in molecules of memory , the message is in the bell and its unique properties ; for those believing that memory is a system property of the brain , the bell is merely a part — albeit an important one — of the system , and to understand the message one must read the wiring diagram , not listen to the sound of the bell ringing . |
| 8 | In another mood , while gazing down into the vapour one could imagine the turbulent creation of the Earth with the alpha tracks like mountain ranges constantly forming , disappearing and reforming . |