Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among sheets from different periods of his career , she offers for sale the series of six ‘ Cold Mountain ’ etchings ( 1991 ) inspired , as were the recent paintings , by Chinese calligraphy and Tang Dynasty poetry . |
| 2 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 3 | He announces his inability to arouse Sir Ralph , is about to return and unlock Whitton 's chamber himself , then changes his mind and goes for Colebrooke the lieutenant . |
| 4 | In Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon Brooke-Rose reappropriates for women the role of one whose relation to language is both active and passive , that of the producer as well as the means of production . |
| 5 | The good advance man develops through experience the wisdom of knowing when to try something and when not . |
| 6 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 7 | He lifts his head , and as he looks towards camera the light catches his monocle and he |
| 8 | Looks like John the Baptist without his beard and is about as uncompromising . |
| 9 | According to its preamble , which incorporates in part the terms of article 220 , the Convention seeks in particular to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts or tribunals and to strengthen in the Community the legal protection of persons therein established . |
| 10 | This defence of Marxism carries over , however , to a critique of Modernism itself : not merely for the fact that Nietzsche attaches ‘ importance ’ to art but for the further claim ascribed to him , and therefore to Modernism itself , that ‘ the nature of aesthetic experience contains in nuce the form of understanding proper to the world itself ( p. 66 ) . |
| 11 | In its strategy for continuing education provision for qualified nurses in Scotland , the Scottish National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting accepts in principle the recommendations of a working party on continuing education and professional development for the three professions which reported in 1981 . |
| 12 | In the interests of the maintenance of international peace and security , Article 35 ( 2 ) of the United Nations Charter allows a non-member to bring a dispute to which it is a party to the attention of either organ of the Organisation , provided it accepts in advance the obligations of the pacific settlement of disputes for the purposes of the dispute . |
| 13 | The year 1993 will continue to see Class 31 hauled summer Birmingham to Pwllheli train , and after that finishes in September the only locos which will be seen in Mid Wales will be Departmental Class 31s on engineers ' trains . |
| 14 | So smothers in blood the burning |
| 15 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 16 | Although if the security declines in value the borrower may possibly be able to elect to hand it over to the lender and thus avoid any further liability in respect of the debt , such an eventuality would be unusual , and therefore should not be reflected in the accounting until such time as the asset is transferred . |
| 17 | A secret protocol of the Nazi-Soviet pact , designating German and Soviet spheres of influence in Finland , Estonia , Lithuania , Latvia and Poland , highlights in retrospect the casuistry of Aragon 's analysis and the inevitability of Nizan 's departure from the PCF . |
| 18 | No actress alive better captures the ferocious pathos of the little heartbreak writ large , and although her immaculate comic technique sustains whole passages of visual lunacy , she has in addition the much rarer theatrical gift of being able to transmit emotion in its purest form . |
| 19 | ‘ 2(1) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest — ( a ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it , on behalf of himself or of a third person ; or ( b ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it ; or ( c ) ( except where the property came to him as trustee or personal representative ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs can not be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 20 | Close comparison of BBC and ITN footage shows that the BBC film has in shot the man who was most severely beaten by the police , but that the film has been cut at precisely the point when the policeman begins to set about him with his truncheon . |
| 21 | And the Epilogue also points forward in its closing words to ‘ a new tale ’ , because ‘ our present one is ended ’ , and the narrator says he has in mind the slow regeneration of Raskolnikov , now in prison , through love and suffering . |
| 22 | He specifies 150 years because he has in mind the social and political reforms of Peter the Great in the early Eighteenth Century . |
| 23 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 24 | It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court . |
| 25 | It also has to fact the threat of potential domestic unrest as the IMF structural economic reform programme it has adopted begins to bite . |
| 26 | Because her expectations were realistic , she accepts without rancour the fact that she must either do the work herself or employ someone to do it for her . |
| 27 | Then it has to decide if it actually wants to shrink-wrap the stuff , and finally whether to go ahead and put together a marketing and distribution effort for the completed product . |
| 28 | The person who needs to unblock the money is not a member of the Government but Commissioner Millan . |
| 29 | This family of views , which derives from many of the same commitments as its predecessors , but owes a great deal to the development of the computer , has among others the rather unenlightening labels functionalism , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , and artificial intelligence-several of which labels obviously have other uses . |
| 30 | This book covers at length the types of problems encountered in validating a given analytical method , with correct data manipulation and with the quality control of the assay procedure . |