Example sentences of "[noun] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow detectives will be visiting houses in the Belmont area in the hope someone can identify the rapist . |
| 2 | On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests . |
| 3 | Thus it is clear that to develop heavy industry one must increase the supply of products at all costs and by all means . |
| 4 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 5 | Even if one looks at the political structure of England one can see the division , and there is no doubt that political dominance was heavily weighted in favour of the South and the Midlands . |
| 6 | In a similar vein one may recall the refusal of Taskopruzade 's grandfather to return to Istanbul to take up an appointment at the newly built Sahn for fear of becoming involved in distracting ambitions for personal glory . |
| 7 | Even within these admirable phrases one can detect the difficulties of achieving a common policy : what those principles could produce , if put into practice , would not be free trade , but only a limited liberalisation that would seek a balance between EEC principles and the protection of national agricultural interests . |
| 8 | Under such circumstances one can predict the final outcome with rather more confidence , for a child in this situation is sustained and encouraged in the response he originally adopted . |
| 9 | His claim that to see the atonement at work one should visit the House of Commons was made in those happy days before its proceedings were televised . |
| 10 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 11 | Then , when the first big shower starts , rather than stand under the wings in the rain everyone will desert the launch point for a cup of tea , leaving the gliders apparently well parked and weighted with tyres but , in fact , vulnerable to a change in the wind direction . |
| 12 | ‘ Penman said just now that there was a river down there , beyond the garden , and that if one climbed the hill one could see the sea . |
| 13 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 14 | On a very literal level this is true , and at this point one might compare the ‘ obvious moral ’ of The Ancient Mariner : |
| 15 | Within the above breakdown one can suggest the following modules ( none of which is comprehensive , only the flavour is indicated ) — the way in which each of the modules would be approached is indicated in the sample courses given in Section 5 : |
| 16 | In the far distance on clear days one can see the higher peaks well known in mountaineering circles . |
| 17 | I detest the painters : Antonio Lopez , who sincerely believes that ‘ all a painter can demand is that his work be exhibited with dignity ’ ; Luis Gordillo , who has condemned the blandishing to tourism of the previous presentation of ‘ Guernica ’ ; Eduardo Arroyo , who confuses the vulgarity of Madrid 's status as cultural capital with the praiseworthiness of a perverse act ; José María Sicilia who has mistaken ‘ Guernica ’ for a prostitute , maintaining that ‘ if one accepts a gift one must fulfil the conditions it implies ’ ; and lastly , Antoni Tàpies , father of so many aberrations , for whom the transferral of ‘ Guernica ’ is as if , ‘ finally , contemporary art had a father-figure ’ . |
| 18 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 19 | As a hypothesis one may entertain the idea that the Japanese variant of East Asian enterprise represents a form of organization which stands to earlier bureaucratic forms of organization as does the postmodern to the modern . |
| 20 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 21 | To determine the nature of the contract one must find the intention of the parties as shown by what they said and did . |
| 22 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 23 | To get in on the educational field one must parrot the latest jargon even if it is rejected by ‘ one ’ . |
| 24 | Treatment is similar to that discussed for calves but in selecting a drug one should consider the withdrawal period of milk for human consumption . |
| 25 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 26 | But one day someone will invent the perfect rectifier , and then . |
| 27 | Because at the end of the day nobody would take the job . |
| 28 | I hasten to add that when I was responsible , as Secretary of State for the Environment , for such developments in England , I found that , with certain conditions one could improve the environment over a period of years . |
| 29 | Filtration in the tank from day one can cause the build-up of infusoria . |
| 30 | ( ii ) In a like manner one can define the set A x B x C of ordered triples ( a , b , c ) where |