Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shouts something but the wind wrenches it away . |
| 2 | Here , the information presented as given is that Mr Rowland wants something and the information presented as new is that this something is the early publication of the report . |
| 3 | exercise that you do in terms of assertion in terms of helping build people 's assertion is what we call a broken record exercise , okay where one person wants something and the other person is trying to change their minds , okay , you get it in conversation when people do n't take you seriously and you 've asked for something and they do n't take you serious they try and avoid the point , they try and change the subject . |
| 4 | The Minister should realise that it says everything that the Government should put in no financial support for the Devon and Cornwall development company . |
| 5 | From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month . |
| 6 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 7 | The Oxford Thesaurus Electronic Edition is very easy to use , the results of a search appear on the screen almost instantaneously and it lacks nothing that the book would have . |
| 8 | Addressing the effect solves nothing if the cause remains . |
| 9 | And in such cases the non-lexical cues — finger waggings , handshakes and so forth — are indeed superfluous , and the printed text preserves everything that the utterer intended to convey . |
| 10 | The leader then touches someone and the confederate returns and touches the same person . |
| 11 | Thus a ‘ bad novel ’ does everything that the category ‘ novel ’ indicates , at the level of generic definition , but then fails to do something else , either in its ‘ aesthetic process ’ or in terms of its ‘ seriousness ’ or its ‘ relation to reality ’ ( which , at least explicitly , the original definition had not included ) . |
| 12 | The constrained maximization problem becomes one where the level of income for the representative household ceases to be a choice variable , as it is in new classical theory , but becomes a datum , determined at the aggregate level by effective demand . |