Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 2 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 3 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |
| 4 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 6 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 7 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 8 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 9 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 10 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 11 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 12 | However , this says nothing about the under — or overpricing of their insurance services . |
| 13 | Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour . |
| 14 | ‘ This says something for the era in which projects have to be approved by television , ’ he told me . |
| 15 | This says something about the economy in this region , and the sensible way in which local people conduct their financial affairs . ’ |
| 16 | The prosecution alleges this links them with the 3 lorry attacks . |
| 17 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 18 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 19 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 20 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 21 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 22 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 23 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 24 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 25 | This leads us into the next stage of whole-healing , namely diet . |
| 26 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 27 | Sequencing This concerns itself with the problem of the sequence in which the items in the block are to be taught in relation to their usefulness and difficulty . |
| 28 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 29 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 30 | This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew . |