Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 2 | If , in these cases , the creditor leaves it to the debtor to procure the third party to provide the security , it is , in my opinion , almost inconceivable that the approach referred to by Dixon J. would be adopted so as to enable the surety to repudiate liability . |
| 3 | The debtor is not , in general , the agent of the creditor whether or not the creditor leaves it to the debtor to procure the third party security . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Where the creditor leaves it to the debtor to obtain the signature of a third party surety on documents of guarantee or on documents charging the surety 's principal or important asset , it exposes itself to the possibility of being restrained under applicable equitable doctrines . |
| 5 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 6 | Inside , the heart repeats itself like a sleepy gong , |
| 7 | The journey back to the resort takes you through the Wachau wine region on the Danube . |
| 8 | Nothing that I have read about the case leads me to the conclusion that anything untoward happened or that the basic and important principle of the GP 's right to refer has been undermined . |
| 9 | But the resistance buries them beneath a cross . ’ |
| 10 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 11 | In addition , the victor sees it as a sign of capitulation by his opponent . |
| 12 | Before we move on , let's just have a look at those numerical estimates , can we look at the coefficients on income , notice that in this model because we 've logged both dependent and the independent variables , right , the coefficients that we estimate are elasticities , right , so we can read those coefficients off directly as elasticities and that 's the case for any model in which all the variables are logged right , in er , if we did n't log the data , in order to calculate the elasticity we have to multiply a coefficient the computer gives us by a erm price quantity ratio , price less , less part of the income constant ratio to obtain the income elasticities . |
| 13 | Schellenberg said cautiously , ‘ So the Führer knows nothing of the affair ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 15 | While the objectors to Foxley Wood — and to Tillingham and Stone Bassett before it — may be rejoicing , the decision leaves us with no solutions to the future growth of population and households in the region . |
| 16 | The paradigm presents him with a set of definite problems together with methods that he is confident will be adequate for their solution . |
| 17 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 18 | Those who think of Pound as a great liberator from stiff and hidebound conventions will be disconcerted to find that Newbolt on the contrary treats him as an academic formalist . |
| 19 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 20 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 21 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 22 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 23 | Yet the time taken to tell the story draws us into the timelessness of the forest and gives the unfolding tragedy its full , ironic measure . |
| 24 | And even if the driver sees something on the line ahead of him , he usually can not stop in time . |
| 25 | As they mature , they migrate to the skin surface — the skin renews itself about every 28 days . |
| 26 | The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 27 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 28 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 29 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 30 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |