Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 2 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 3 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 4 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 5 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 6 | Recent movements of the dollar and yen by contrast appear to reflect the absence of international policy coordination . |
| 7 | Labour tend to regard the health service as some enormous trade union . |
| 8 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 9 | The best of these sausages are loose or in jars — I find that the necessary temperatures achieved during canning tend to make the sausages rather fatty and slimy in texture . |
| 10 | Labour want to take the shadow of gloom away . |
| 11 | The DGSE want to trace the people behind Spidex as much as Monsieur Nadirpur does . |
| 12 | The college want to make the sale , sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners last summer , to set up an endowment fund for maintenance , restoration and refurbishment of Royal Holloway 's Founder 's Building , as well as for the upkeep and security for the remaining pictures . |
| 13 | There is a small spring catch to hold the dust bag in place and at the correct alignment . |
| 14 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 15 | He was with them 13 years : ‘ We were never on oor own , we were never — didna seem t'have the hoose t'oorselves . ’ |
| 16 | These two systems working in opposition seem to give the locust very fine speed control . |
| 17 | Why should the government or industry consider funding the activities of scholars who are marginalized by their own professions ? |
| 18 | Id like to see the present formation kept as is . |
| 19 | Professor Chew attended the graduation of his niece at Stirling some years ago when she obtained a degree in Management Science — and from all accounts they are both Stirling enthusiasts . |
| 20 | If you wish to extend your new-found talent try to remember the list in any order . |
| 21 | Many of the amendments tabled by the Opposition fail to recognise the duties and regulatory powers in existing legislation and in the licences . |
| 22 | Neurophysiological accounts of consciousness fail to address the problem of the unities of human consciousness . |
| 23 | Why did the researchers involved in the study fail to notice the imbalance of their original data ? |
| 24 | Many spokesmen for the Christian religion have echoed the conviction that St. Basil expressed with his statement that a life of meekness and piety knew higher concerns than whether the earth was a sphere , cylinder , or disk . |
| 25 | We shall now explore some of these abstract and material elements within cultures in the knowledge that in some countries factors like religion have inhibited the acceptance of Western materialism and industrialisation . |
| 26 | But community leaders at the Asian Cultural Centre Association have condemned the violence which police say arose out of an argument between two Asian families . |
| 27 | Members of the Vietnam Veterans Association have rejected the findings and called for a Royal Commission into the issue . |
| 28 | With four games still to play , the side have clinched the Third Division title and promotion to Division Two . |
| 29 | Critics from both the nationalist and the loyalist side have attacked the DUP ( and its predecessor , the Protestant Unionist Party ) for using working-class loyalists to further its aims . |
| 30 | Half an hour gone the captain has an injury but his side have taken the lead . |