Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 2 | To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category . |
| 3 | Lacan also refers to the subject 's appeal to the Other , which is when the subject demands a guarantee of absolute recognition from another , that goes beyond what the other human being can offer as a response . |
| 4 | And people are sometimes aware that the kind of stress they feel is different depending on what the stressful circumstances are . |
| 5 | This refers to what the man 's beliefs lead him to feel or do . |
| 6 | This corresponds to what the Court of Appeal had evolved in its sentencing practices as the spontaneous kind of affray , which did not necessarily attract particularly |
| 7 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 8 | Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period . |
| 9 | This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 11 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 12 | As self-governing bodies , local education authorities are , by and large , free to decide for themselves the amount of money they will spend on education . |
| 13 | Indeed the sixth GCC summit held in Muscat in November 1985 took upon itself the task of ending the war the following year . |
| 14 | 2 Think about what the girl might be saying . |
| 15 | About 350 million years ago , some appeared in which the sexual generation no longer grew flat on the ground , but up in the crowns of the trees . |
| 16 | Farm workers , too , could be persuaded to defer to the locally powerful if the latter were prepared to act in what the farm worker believed to be a legitimate manner . |
| 17 | This brings with it the corollary that it is not always apparent whether the beliefs he expresses are Ackroyd 's or those of the writer to whom he is exposed , or both . |
| 18 | But this brings with it the potential for change , allowing them to become agents instead of passively relying on Oa . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ that depends on what the questions are . ’ |
| 20 | He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp . |
| 21 | Cos you 're actually supposed to think of what the message , the essential message you want to get across , and then work your illustration out accordingly . |
| 22 | If true observation statements are given , then it is possible to logically deduce from them the falsity of some universal statements , whereas it is not possible to deduce from them the truth of any universal statements . |
| 23 | His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant . |
| 24 | And they have argued that , whilst feminism should indeed always have a critical relationship to psychoanalytic theory , the latter has within it the potential for allowing a better understanding of the complexities of human desires and of the psychological construction of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 25 | It all depends on what the exam results are like nationally , how popular the course is , and whether the admissions tutor was particularly impressed by your application . |
| 26 | Labour councillor Hugh Lloyd , who represents Upton , said : ‘ It all depends on what the Government say and what we get from land sales . |
| 27 | I think it all depends on what the British feel the response is going to be , either today or in the future . |
| 28 | It all depends on who the heads belong to , what they are talking about and whether we in the audience have a reason for listening to them . |
| 29 | ‘ That all depends on who the somebody was . ’ |
| 30 | The secret lies in the rhythmic and harmonic independence of the ground from the variations , and of both from the nominal 4/4 time in which the music is notated , though Britten further complicates this by making phrase-groupings of the variations irregular . |