Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [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 | Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace . |
| 3 | Mash it or purée it in the blender with an equal quantity of fresh unsalted butter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table . |
| 20 | If you are interested in enrolling in Business Direct , or wish any of your staff to enrol , please complete the attached application form and post it to the address shown or take it to your local Midland branch . |
| 21 | That 's ah Mrs bloody dog oh bugger it , why should she have to clean it up , she should take it , put it in the bag and post it to the environmental health |
| 22 | Government policy would " form a basis for growth and enterprise which towards the late 1990s will result in a Sweden with individual freedom , where hard work and thrift will pay off " . |
| 23 | To ‘ bastard trench ’ , take out the top spit of the first trench and barrow it to the end of the digging area . |
| 24 | I raced for the door and high-kneed it through the trees . |
| 25 | Not even when she had Andrew Jean and the others cut out a couple of the pioneers and pizza them across the two-lane blacktop . |
| 26 | Steel your heart , gird up your vitals and content yourself with the company of bold fellows like Kelly and myself … ’ |
| 27 | Then I divvy up the crap into the rightful pedal bins and trolley them around the building , where nobody knows me . |
| 28 | Brewers may thus formulate a character and emphasis it in the beer . |
| 29 | As the slack came in , he got one of the uniformed men to cut the line away from Gomez 's legs and retie it to the line on the rod . |
| 30 | You might as well take money and shovel it down the drain . |