Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could even make a case for delaying it until the Club celebrates its Centenary Year 20 years hence . |
| 2 | Pride that demanded she ask Naylor Massingham for a better reason for sacking her than the fact that his cousin was making himself ill over her . |
| 3 | The C. and A.G. , after satisfying himself that the vouchers have been examined and certified as correct by the accounting department , may , in his discretion and having regard to the character of the departmental examination , in any particular case admit the sum so certified without further evidence of payment in support of the charges to which they relate … ‘ |
| 4 | Together these produce a powerful effect , and , after reviewing them and the way they work , it becomes very much less surprising that the semantic essence of syntactic constructions has proved so elusive in the past . |
| 5 | I was there recently , talking to Dr Lalitha Vijayam about her research on the Siberian crane 's problems and about my chances of seeing one before the Ob river race becomes extinct . |
| 6 | Thus , the best way of proving anything that the other side will not agree to is to be prepared to call the witness to give evidence about it at trial . |
| 7 | The dissonance between the act of firing someone and the manager 's beliefs about what is acceptable or decent behaviour from one individual to another can be extremely painful . |
| 8 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 9 | Typical criteria , methods of applying them and the influence of financial analysis methods on ranking order are discussed . |
| 10 | Typical criteria , methods of applying them and the influence of financial analysis methods on ranking order are discussed . |
| 11 | They are not as swift as cheetah and have to get considerably closer , usually to within twenty yards of their target , if they are to have a reasonable chance of overtaking it when the race begins . |
| 12 | In addition , there are all the practical difficulties as to the accessibility of Parliamentary material , the cost of researching it and the use of court time in analysing it , which are good reasons for maintaining the rule . |
| 13 | In each case , MI5 alleged that those who had reported such stories were either mentally unbalanced , or seeking publicity , which was a convenient way of denigrating them and the tales . |
| 14 | As a means of assuring us that the management of large public companies do not wield arbitrary power it is unsatisfactory . |
| 15 | Some things from Neil Young , possibly : the idea of asking yourself whether the song is good enough on acoustic guitar and voice to cut it before you start blowing it out at 125 decibels . |
| 16 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 17 | I was terrified of saying anything that the kidnappers would view as a coded message or as offensive in any way , in case John should suffer for it , but how was I to put a year 's worth of thoughts and feelings into a few lines ? |
| 18 | If you need to satisfy you annalistic impulses to close the bin , you know to , to fondle the rings , er , you can close it by pushing the rings together , that 's actually a more efficient way of doing it than the triggers , but please always open with the triggers . |
| 19 | John Nott said that the nuclear submarine Dreadnought was going to be scrapped as soon as anyone could think of a way of doing it and the US and USSR declined to consider each other 's plans for nuclear disarmament . |
| 20 | I still had n't actually thought of doing anything until the woman ran towards me and cried , ‘ Help , please . |
| 21 | Short of telling her that the Morton and |
| 22 | The advantage of following it and the fact that costs will not always be awarded to the respondent in any event under Ord 62 , r6(9) is illustrated by Jacobs v Wessex RHA and Hall v Wandsworth HA above . |
| 23 | Economics provided the calculus for measuring it and the rules for its satisfactory regulation . |
| 24 | Even so , she felt extremely uncomfortable about facing him while the details were so clear in her mind . |
| 25 | But while England and , for that matter , Scotland , are being stampeded into adopting them before the ink on the bill is even dry , there is a definite lack of urgency west of Offa 's Dyke . |
| 26 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 27 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |
| 28 | But once the new proposals are implemented , school work will be funded and we will face either the impossible position of teachers being paid for doing nothing or the arrangements will cease to exist . |
| 29 | In between doing you and the dentist , I was fitting in Mrs , she 's Sharon 's mum . |
| 30 | It is not just a great city ; it is , or rather was , a great port and shipbuilding city , and that matters in understanding it and the places which are like it . |