Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were interested in such a campaign , she could perhaps use as the model for it our own dear Speaker , whose radiant health and youthfulness make him the perfect epitome of a diet based on vegetarianism . |
| 2 | The advantages of disc in the storage of information and in speed of access to any part make it the more flexible combination , with a wider range of possible uses . |
| 3 | Then the cheeky four-year-old showed off by singing her favourite song — the drinker 's ditty Show Me The Way To Go Home . |
| 4 | The oxygen isotonic ratios of the coral tell us the water temperature at the time the coral was growing . |
| 5 | With ‘ Slack ’ , the band 's second indie release , nestling freshly in the racks , Bivouac find themselves the objects of slavering major label attention on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | WILL AN INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISER FIND YOU THE BEST MORTGAGE DEAL ? |
| 7 | She give us all these , like diseases and we had to learn parrot learn them the definition for them cos she were giving us a test on them . |
| 8 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 9 | Why not let the private sector provide what the public sector can not or will not ? |
| 10 | Acquired expertise and skill give her the confidence to make the choices that will shape her future . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman , I , I take your point , but I also support erm , Paul , actually , because if we do support things like this , and like you say , if it were , do collapse on these kids , erm , they could come back and say , well , you know , council give us the money towards it , you know , they should have , |
| 12 | Chemical reactions in our body involving oxygen give us the energy we need to live ( some types of bacteria , anaerobic bacteria , curl up and die when exposed to oxygen , but they are in the minority ) . |
| 13 | Lancashire County Council tell me the skip will be provided from Tuesday 30th March to Tuesday 6th April . |
| 14 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 15 | The members of the committee call it the knobs and knockers committee . |
| 16 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 17 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 18 | honey give me the midday paper please dear |
| 19 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 20 | A vase from the end of the century with Theseus at the bottom of the sea may perhaps in its central group give us the design of the fourth , but it is not a document of the same kind as these contemporary vases . |
| 21 | The bank or financial institution instruction form conforms to the strict requirements of the Association for Payment Clearing Services and in addition Eagle Star Group give you the following assurances : |
| 22 | Carbonate which is not quite the salt not the sort of thing you get from an acid normally like sulphuric , sulphuric acid give you the sulphate . |
| 23 | ‘ For God 's sake tell me the truth . |
| 24 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 25 | Does the head teacher know what the faculty thinks on major matters ? |
| 26 | The realistic thing to do is to throw them all into one hat , and let the odd quirk of the draw do what the public , the sponsors and , I suspect , the players want most — a Minor side through to the last eight , and then get a home draw . |
| 27 | Can someone post email me the lineup against Liverpool ? |
| 28 | The slowness and deliberateness of the act of offering is symbolic of self-giving ; if too rushed , the community miss what the action signifies . |
| 29 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 30 | When divergent truth claims of this kind confront us the question that arises is what independent criterion of truth can be produced to determine which claim to truth is the right one ? |