Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 32 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 33 | But Kitty — who sensed her young friend 's perturbation — only talked as always about the woods , the animals , the nights . |
| 34 | The whole book is worth buying if only for the fourteenth-century teddy bear and cuddly elephant in colour in plate 27 . |
| 35 | For example , a child who is assessed while slightly under the weather or simply in a bad mood will be likely to perform below par , and a comparison of this assessment with a prior or subsequent assessment will provide a distorted impression of any real changes which have occurred . |
| 36 | This leads to districts asking hospitals to do as before with the same money and little changes . |
| 37 | DEPTH — is an optional input parameter indicating whether all of the package structure is to be read out ( default ) or just the root package . |
| 38 | DEPTH — is an input parameter indicating whether all of the package structure is to be searched for eligible modules or just the root package . |
| 39 | DEPTH — is an input parameter indicating whether all of the package structure is to be listed or just the root package . |
| 40 | He had never felt so abandoned as here at the top of this tall silent house on Usher 's Quay . |
| 41 | Go and talk to the fitters , interest myself in what made buses work and how they worked when down in the pits . |
| 42 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 43 | Politicians , who appeared on our doorsteps like snowdrops nodding their heads wisely in the cold seasonal winds , have disappeared as promptly with the warmer weather . |
| 44 | These weighed as heavily in the social balance as the areas of social tension like Galicia . |
| 45 | Speeding while slightly over the limit it was . |
| 46 | Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface . |
| 47 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 48 | The tourists took until late in the third quarter to overcome Wales B on Saturday at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 49 | These specimens were trapped inside a confined roof space in a house in Wales and eaten while still in the trap . |
| 50 | Smoking was more common among Welsh parents , accompanied by an attempt not to smoke while close to the baby . |
| 51 | Unfortunately Shackleton died whilst still in the Antarctic on 5 January 1922 , and so he never did search for the treasure . |
| 52 | An arms advantage for oneself is now the option that is next most preferred ( 3 ) , followed as before by the arms race ( 2 ) , and then by an ‘ arms lag ’ ( 1 ) . |
| 53 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 54 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 55 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 56 | The bare infinitive no longer suffices , however , when its actual spatial support is represented as somehow before the time corresponding to the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 57 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 58 | There are indeed principles of law relative to the use of weapons in warfare , and these principles apply as well to the use of nuclear and similar weapons . |
| 59 | I laughed as well at the time , but it stuck with me . |
| 60 | But he benefitted as well from the instruction of the Zoological Society 's draughtsman , William Harvey , who had once been a student of Bewick . |