Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 2 | And there was this old guy dragging this bloody rope with a massive hook on the end like after after , you know , I presume it was cod or mackerel something along the and I said , what the hell are you fishing ? |
| 3 | Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace . |
| 4 | Mash it or purée it in the blender with an equal quantity of fresh unsalted butter . |
| 5 | When a whisker grows from solution or from vapour there generally first appears a very fine filament or leader which in the electron microscope can be seen to be almost perfectly smooth . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) The tenant shall upon reasonable notice permit the landlord or his agent to inspect and take copies of the tenant 's books of accounts or any other document or record which in the opinion of the landlord or such agent is relevant to the determination of the turnover rent and shall bear the costs of such inspection if there shall be any material discrepancy between the information supplied by the tenant under paragraph 3 above and the results of such inspection . |
| 7 | born in Church Street I , I was only one , there were no brothers or sisters which for the record , I regret because all around me I had cousins , dozens of them and erm the families round me was big families and it was the , there was er times when it was bad weather or something like that and you could n't congregate outside , you 'd go to somebody 's house , are you coming ? |
| 8 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 9 | If your question is expressly divided into several sub-questions , answer each sub-question separately ; and if the sub-questions are numbered ( i , ii , iii ) or lettered ( a , b , c ) number or letter them in the same way in your answer . |
| 10 | The Directors may require to be satisfied that any Share being transferred under this paragraph are being transferred in pursuance of a bona fide sale for the consideration stated in the instrument of transfer without any deduction rebate or allowance whatsoever to the Purchaser . |
| 11 | The Directors may require to be satisfied that any Share being transferred under this paragraph are being transferred in pursuance of a bona fide sale for the consideration stated in the instrument of transfer without any deduction rebate or allowance whatsoever to the Purchaser . |
| 12 | The results of all the foregoing may be a fire or fires which on the arrival of the fire brigade have either developed as could be anticipated in the absence of an automatic extinguishing system or a situation where fire has gained a substantial hold and is being retarded in its growth by a sprinkler system reduced to some degree from its designed effectiveness . |
| 13 | Male callers however are far more likely to be looking for easy solutions to a debt problem , usually a further loan or re-mortgage which in the long term will often make the problem worse . |
| 14 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 15 | He sees the ball early and strokes , rather than forces it through the gap in the field . |
| 16 | Busy executives should not be bothered by trifling matters , so the receptionist must learn how to classify calls and route them to the person best suited to deal with them . |
| 17 | Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government . |
| 18 | When it finds a label declared it generates a BBCBASIC(Z80) variable with that name and loads it with the current value of the program counter ( P% ) . |
| 19 | Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape . |
| 20 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 21 | I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on . |
| 22 | That would be the best time to refinance with a fixed-rate mortgage and lock oneself into the German virtuous circle of medium-paced growth , low inflation and minimal home loan costs . |
| 23 | And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens . |
| 24 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 25 | But it 's ‘ Real Thing ’ , a vicious , funk-oriented cacophony that truly sends the album out in style and catapults them into the five star catch area . |
| 26 | But it 's ‘ Real Thing ’ , a vicious , funk-oriented cacophony that truly sends the album out in style and catapults them into the five star catch area . |
| 27 | Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them . |
| 28 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |
| 29 | The virtue of immediate or shortly forthcoming abolition of the trade abolitionists proclaimed as an act of justice and humanity which at the same time offered the greatest stimulus to reform of slavery on the plantations . |
| 30 | They were encouraged to profess repentance and contrition which in the view of CD and others simply promoted hypocrisy , hence his satire on ‘ Model Prisoners ’ in DC 61 . |