Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HDS claims the award makes it the largest supplier of X-terminals for commercial applications in the business , a new area for the things . |
| 2 | The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar . |
| 3 | The statute gives him no such say . |
| 4 | The barman hands her a second drink , a Tennents . |
| 5 | The central location of the Plough makes it the ideal venue for both business and pleasure . |
| 6 | However , in this case , the plan pays you a tax-free cash benefit of £26 a night while you are in hospital . |
| 7 | If the rat does not run when given some signal ( such as a light coming on ) , the experimenter gives it an electric shock . |
| 8 | Mercury is a small planet , which combined with its small angular separation from the Sun makes it a difficult planet to observe . |
| 9 | The Act makes it an absolute offence for a shopkeeper to sell cigarettes or any other tobacco product to young people . |
| 10 | the shop sells it the same price as the |
| 11 | The feast gives us a graphic picture of the character of God , showing how he loves to redeem those who have been lost , to restore the lives which have been wasted . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 13 | The speed of access combined with precision of access to any part of the disc makes it an important development for educational users of video . |
| 14 | The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation . |
| 15 | What makes it , what makes them improve so , the team makes it the same does n't it ? |
| 16 | So it 's worth reiterating , making sure each member of the team knows who the senior people are and the branches they 're s they 're operating . |
| 17 | They say BA already dominates at Heathrow and the takeover gives it a big foothold at Gatwick as well . |
| 18 | Fine songs such as ‘ Mean To Me ’ or ‘ I Ca n't Get Started ’ appear to be close to perfect here but such trifles as ‘ With Thee I Swing ’ and ‘ You 're Too Lovely To Last ’ are just as charming because the singer gives them the same sensitive treatment . |
| 19 | Perhaps his most inspired piece is the saga of Cosmo , the fairly accurate knife thrower , whose failure to see the point makes him the sharpest act in town . |
| 20 | There are many times when the Bible gives us a special insight into the hearts and minds of some of the people whose lives are described in the Old and New Testaments . |
| 21 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 22 | The rain brings him an end-of-time vision , solitary as his sense of humour , of flooding cellars and emerging rats . |
| 23 | The magistrate gives him a three-week remand in custody . |
| 24 | A petition can not be heard until at least fourteen days have elapsed since the petition was served on the debtor and the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement ( r 6.18(1) ) unless it appears that the debtor has absconded or the court thinks it a proper case for an expedited hearing , or the debtor consents ( r 6.18(2) ) . |
| 25 | Hegel articulates a philosophical structure of the appropriation of the other as a form of knowledge which uncannily simulates the project of nineteenth-century imperialism ; the construction of knowledges which all operate through forms of expropriation and incorporation of the other mimics it a conceptual level the geographical and economic absorption of the non-European world by the West . |
| 26 | Consider the two underlined phrases : ( 3 ) I 'll get some German hock for the party I 'll get some German beer for the party Speaking of the latter phrase , we may say that the noun gives us an initial outline " semantic target area " beer while the adjective , by specifying an additional property , restricts the issue to just that part of the target area which the writer wishes to discuss . |
| 27 | The first person to find the thimble hides it the next time . |
| 28 | but just being on the bench gives me the tiniest little bit of hope … |
| 29 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 30 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |