Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 32 | It was at this point that Venturous took over the job completely and we holed up discreetly just round the corner in Helford River to await news of the suspect 's departure , to be signalled to us by our Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 33 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 34 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 35 | The fact that Nadia has only the little finger on each hand has not produced one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils at the Borders preparatory school . |
| 36 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 37 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 38 | After a while , of course , the woebegone aspect of the crossed-in-love becomes very irritating , especially if one is being unjustly blamed for it , so Lydia ripped out the last of the fluff that formed , as it were , the bird 's underclothes , rose to her feet gripping her pheasant by its knees , and then bent over and kissed Beuno . |
| 39 | From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight . |
| 40 | I think I must have realized that Jean-Claude had neither the nerve nor the genuine confidence to take up an appointment in a language he did not speak . |
| 41 | These were the trends of mail order sales , the percentage and identity of the returns , the sources of manufacture , market research results , plans for mail order catalogues in the future and that Harris knew intimately the chairman of the manufacturers . |
| 42 | It seems , although the statement of claim does not set out the matter in any systematic way , that C.M.C. drew down the full loan of £420,000 and subsequently defaulted in its payments to B.M.T. It does not appear precisely how the £420,000 was expended by C.M.C. After obtaining the possession order in respect of the bakery , B.M.T. sold it for about £183,000 . |
| 43 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 44 | Nothing annoyed Viola Machin more , as a general rule , than Hilda putting on the broad Lancashire . |
| 45 | But as Greenblatt points out , there is evidence to suggest that Stanley made up the part about burning Shakespeare to heighten the effect of his story . |
| 46 | Josephus , the Jewish historian , states that Quirinius carried out the Syrian census in 6 AD . |
| 47 | The Crown claims that Gallen picked up the bombers in Donegal , drove them to the yard and returned an hour later to pick them up . |
| 48 | And let's not forget that Waqar shot out the first four England batsmen in the second innings at The Oval with a new ball — and he was scarcely getting it off line . |
| 49 | To make the vision a reality requires that BT open up the interfaces between the separate parts of its operation : the different parts of the physical network , its billing , management and services systems . |
| 50 | The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection . |
| 51 | Now although Morag liked both the summer and the winter , there was one other time she always looked forward to and that was the spring — time when the snow melted and green leaves began to appear again on all the trees and hedges . |
| 52 | ‘ We could see the house was on fire so Mark kicked down the door but we were met by a wall of flames , ’ said Mr Wynne . |
| 53 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 54 | The letter had been ripped open so Dexter drew out the note within , a sheet torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 55 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 56 | Gareth broke his leg while he was clearing snow in 1982 and the milk from the herd of Guernseys could not be got away , so Rachel got out the separator and sold cream locally . |
| 57 | She realised that Urquhart had neither the grace nor sensitivity to apologise and she wondered whether it was due to shyness or boorishness . |
| 58 | Finally , when Schisgal had returned to his interrupted slumbers , Mortimer and Yates brought up the subject of the purpose of their visit . |
| 59 | The light from the kitchen window was showing up the faintest of impressions on the paper , and Doyle picked up the pad and examined it more closely . |
| 60 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |