Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 2 | The information about God and his will which the Christian receives through reading the Bible calls for a tough response that is anything but sentimental . |
| 3 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 4 | Instead , the buyer should seek to ensure that the consideration reflects the higher risk to the buyer and the terms which the seller wants for completing the disposal . |
| 5 | What matters about lying is giving people false beliefs , just as giving them true ones is what matters about telling the truth . |
| 6 | In fact , he says , they are rule governed and functional : ‘ In informal conversation they have a proper role , as they are one of the main means language has of expressing the various alterations in the force and direction of argument that we find ourselves using ’ ( Crystal , 1976 , p. 24 ) . |
| 7 | John Smith , once everyone 's favourite , looks like assuming the same well worn cloak . |
| 8 | Yet his return to the club looks like proving the most significant in Forest 's recovery . |
| 9 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that he looks like bottling the Tokyo job , ’ she said quietly . |
| 11 | The user interface looks like setting the standard for future electronic books of this kind . |
| 12 | But there was no ligament damage , and intensive treatment looks like achieving the miracle cure Leeds wanted . |
| 13 | This astute move by Sony looks like capturing the attractive , generic ‘ electronic book ’ name for the benefit of their own platform . |
| 14 | It was unanimous last time and it looks like going the same way this time , especially after Joe Punter saw the new design in the press . |
| 15 | Jimmy Quinn looks like landing the jockeys all-weather crown and he can take another step towards that landmark by winning the Milton Handicap on Westfield Moves . |
| 16 | DARLINGTON striker Steve Mardenborough looks like missing the derby . |
| 17 | And he looks like remaining the only two- and four-wheeled world champion for quite some time … unless Joey Dunlop , Eddie Lawson or Wayne Gardner have other ideas ! |
| 18 | They will plead not guilty.The use of an eighteenth century law looks like scraping the barrel . |
| 19 | The Trust looks like becoming the premier wilderness organisation in Scotland . |
| 20 | EAST Germany 's vast security police apparatus , once a fearsome state within a state , looks like becoming the next centre of Stalinist power to fall to the country 's ‘ people power ’ revolution . |
| 21 | And because we live in an era when all other human relations and values are in crisis , or at least somewhere on a journey towards unknown and uncertain destinations , xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin de siècle . |
| 22 | Today , CD-A looks like becoming the biggest success in consumer electronics since the television . |
| 23 | The new " aspect lies in entering the information at the microcomputer keyboard , having specified the number of fields , field names and position of fields in each record according to the design decisions reached earlier . |
| 24 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 25 | The key to freeing the body to regain its lost dignity lies in inhibiting the unconscious habit of muscle tension ; only then may we perform actions in such a way that they become as much a joy to carry out as they are to watch . |
| 26 | It may well be that as , perhaps , in the teaching of reading , so in the teaching of writing , the real art lies in discerning the approach that best suits the individual writer for a particular type of compositional task . |
| 27 | Yet the interest lies in seeing the distinction between direct and precatory words being used as a test . |
| 28 | For these methods , used to regulate consumption on the basis of a drop in the economic power of the town relative to the village , will be quite inappropriate to a state of affairs whose basis lies in developing the productive forces … |
| 29 | The problem lies in sustaining the speech , for Mercutio is a hearty and boisterous character , seemingly at odds with the mischief and delicacy of this speech . |
| 30 | The difficulty lies in heating the fuel to temperatures of about 100 million degrees centigrade and in containing any substance heated to such a temperature . |