Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning . |
| 2 | because we have done everything we should of done , we 've defended the right all over the world , we went to the Falklands , we , we defended the right in it |
| 3 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Elizabeth chased him back into the wet again with no compunction . |
| 5 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
| 6 | You 're now ready to knock the joint apart with a mallet or hammer and a block of scrap softwood . |
| 7 | Cover the joint loosely with a tent of foil and leave to rest for 15–20 minutes before carving . |
| 8 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 9 | If so , this would place the body of the nucleosome just above the molecule of GH5 in Fig. 5 . |
| 10 | For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
| 12 | The Marxist claim that a socialist revolution will inaugurate a classless society , an end to all forms of domination and the withering away of the state is just another myth of popular control , propagated by an emerging counter-elite , the leadership of the new industrial working class . |
| 13 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 14 | The people , exploited economically , socially and politically by capitalism would rise up and seize the state for themselves ( socialism ) and then replace it ( after the withering away of the state ) by a system of communism . |
| 15 | He prophesied that the triumph of communism would lead to the withering away of the state . |
| 16 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
| 17 | Over the long term we can detect three broad tendencies : the conservative , authoritarian often expressed in the actions of social morality campaigns ; the liberal often in the vanguard of reforming activity ; and the radical , libertarian ; the first asserting the importance of absolute moral standards ; the second by and large seeking relaxation within a traditional framework of family values ; and the third advocating a transformation of values . |
| 18 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |
| 19 | I and others are devoted to the idea of obtaining simultaneously the massive resources of the large together with the speed of movement , closeness to the market and greater personal satisfaction of the small . |
| 20 | On the left immediately past the quarter-point is Cambridge Airport ( G ) with its distinctive single runway and huge Marshalls hangars . |
| 21 | Park at the layby on the left just before the stone gateway to a vineyard about five kilometres along this road . |
| 22 | Slide it from its resting place on the left across to the right . |
| 23 | He glanced down at my notes and touched his own chest , first on the left then on the right as if beginning the sign of the cross : ‘ Both . ’ |
| 24 | They liken the pouring forth through the ether and via the cable of television programmes of every imaginable type , to the release into an estuary of toxic chemicals . |
| 25 | And saw Rohmer levelling the automatic directly at the girl 's head . |
| 26 | ‘ The question is , should we , for the good of the diocese , for the good indeed of the Church , keep knowledge of that problem out of the hands of the police or , at least , the press ? ’ |
| 27 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 28 | Trying to root one subfamily of glutamate dehydrogenase harbouring representatives of the three domains of life , using the paralogous subfamily as an outgroup , we obtained different roots according to the method of tree construction used . |
| 29 | There is no hint that dreaming , in this context , was any more than a poetic device , with no connotation of the supernatural simply from the fact that it was a dream . |
| 30 | So how does it feel , Sir Edmund , to be the hunted instead of the hunter ? ’ |