Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one belongs to the physical elite for long . |
| 2 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 3 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 4 | Nothing turns on the statutory definition of those words : it is sufficient to note that from 1988 onwards , governors have been bound to admit a minimum specified number of applicants . |
| 5 | Nothing turns on the precise figures . |
| 6 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 7 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 8 | The project outline claims that no-one lives in the inner zones , although this is disputed by local non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , which insist that tribal people currently use all of the forest . |
| 9 | The structure of the fertilizer industry is divided into two , where subscript I refers to the four dominant firms and subscript 2 refers to the blenders , who act as importers of urea . |
| 10 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 11 | Out of each battle , when the person dies , his replacement — his ghost-appears in the same tinted colour and keeps the unit up to complement . |
| 12 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 13 | I says to the little kid , when nanny and mums do n't take , well I do n't anyway . |
| 14 | And I turned right round and I says , the boy with the sling said it was n't me , I says to the big one , I said , do you want your legs in plaster ? |
| 15 | Because the rate of cycle I depends on the local concentration of SO 2 , it shows a maximum in the SO 2 cloud . |
| 16 | If someone punches in the wrong code more than three times , the alarm sounds automatically . |
| 17 | pBLcat2 and wild type oligo I constructs from the same experiments are shown for direct comparison . |
| 18 | Scobie — he 's the Lab attendant — and I sees to the working labs but all the heavy cleaning is supposed to be done by the contractors . |
| 19 | Only one fragmentary letter of his survives in the canonical New Testament . |
| 20 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 21 | It would also allow me to experiment as much as I likes with the interesting colours of the Winsor & Newton Artists ' Acrylic Colour range and with some of the techniques that are particularly well suited to the acrylic medium . |
| 22 | Next year my wife starts in earnest on the gardens , driving back to Blackberry and Elver , while I experiments with the outside colour scheme . |
| 23 | They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show . |
| 24 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 25 | Nothing passes during the eight miles to Dimatima . |
| 26 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 27 | The First is that period which recedes from the very beginning of life on earth and reaches far back into the unknowable depths of the timeless universe . |
| 28 | The Drayton Drain Easy kit consists of a stopper which fits into the cold feed pipe outlet of a cistern and a plug which fits over the end of the open vent pipe to allow , say , a radiator to be removed from a central heating system without draining down the whole central heating system , which could well mean losing all your corrosion inhibitor . |
| 29 | In the vast majority of cases the exhaust pipe corrodes around the bend which goes over the rear axle on motor cars or that particular pipe breaks away from the end of the silencer . |
| 30 | If the ‘ postface ’ is the attitude of feigned female acquiescence to male views , the ‘ preface ’ is that which objects , that which goes through the tiresome ‘ routine ’ of explaining exactly why these views are objectionable . |