Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are ready , gently come back to the room and write down what the exercise revealed about your way-of-seeing the world . |
| 2 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 3 | No matter how efficient the Institution , how quick its response times or how well it is known nothing would be possible without those who raise the funds to keep the RNLI running , and in reporting the reaching of the end of another financial year in an excellent position to plan for our future the Chairman extended his thanks once again to the fund raisers . |
| 4 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 5 | The Abortion Law Reform Association , founded in 1936 by seven women , of whom Dora Russell , Stella Browne and Frida Laski were particularly sympathetic to the labour movement , believed abortion to be safe , but called only for legal abortion to be made available on health grounds , using as their justification the way in which deaths due to abortion inflated the maternal mortality rate . |
| 6 | When , in the 1590s , Essex failed to get the Attorneyship for Francis Bacon , he sought for his protege the vacant post of Solicitor . |
| 7 | Isi , a vizier of the late Fifth and early Sixth Dynasties , became after his retirement the nomarch or provincial governor at Edfu . |
| 8 | Maybe they provided Wulfstan , who used as his pseudonym the name Lupus , the Wolf , with ready sources of illustration . |
| 9 | As such , community economic development is a form of community action which has as its basis the community 's own perception of its needs and the formulation of its own collective response to these needs . |
| 10 | A suicide pact exists where two or more people , each having a settled intention of dying , reach an agreement which has as its object the death of both or all . |
| 11 | Its investigatory function has as its object the ascertainment of the facts and the determination of the truth . |
| 12 | This is not simply an incautious and unconsidered statement by Mr Baldwin , a slip of the tongue : it is the settled and deliberate policy of the governing class , who have entered upon a course of action which has for its object the deliberate intensification of unemployment as a method of forcing down wages . |
| 13 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 14 | She would apologize for her behaviour the previous evening , and ask her advice on what to do next . |
| 15 | And then , under pressure from Walter Ash , she allowed to slip into her mind the faint , faint hope that by some quirk of reasoning her mother might be persuaded to agree . |
| 16 | For example , Bill Naysmith , Group Design Director , was contacted late one evening to meet with Her Majesty the following morning . |
| 17 | Gaston , however , disposed of the latest invaders and then commemorated his double success over the heathens by incorporating into his portal the figures of two Saracens in chains and oriental costume , to be seen still hunched submissively at the foot of the central pillar of the doorway as if having to bear all its weight . |
| 18 | That voice I 've missed wasting no time in telling me its owner had dined with my secretary the previous evening . ’ |
| 19 | As I have already said , we do not know under what authority the coins were issued . |
| 20 | The more battles and the more kills an Orc has under his belt the more respect he earns from other Orcs , the more his enemies fear him , and the happier he will be . |
| 21 | The lodge itself is still a feature in the landscape , possibly built in the style of the great house as those latticed panes would suggest ; but the family within it is to displace with its architecture the great houses of the Victorians , whether old or new . |
| 22 | They involve in their essence the consideration of the future of the nation state . |
| 23 | He 'll put a coin or a note in a charity box : he uses money to salve his conscience : the very money that causes in its plenty the rich man 's grief , in its absence the poor man 's woe : it is the symbol of our failure , not our success . |
| 24 | The bird must also know in which direction the echo-producing obstacle lies . |
| 25 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 26 | To enable teachers to perform this function with regard to language , they will need in their training the research tools that will enable them to do this . |
| 27 | He followed the traditional approach of considering separately the imposition of burdens upon a third party from the conferring of benefits , and stressed in his commentary the requirement of good faith prior to becoming a party to a treaty . |
| 28 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 29 | Most Christians , if asked about their faith , would include in their explanation the simple joy and happiness that faith has given to them . |
| 30 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |