Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
| 2 | This would end with a " Hallelujah " wind-up , or glory march where someone would take the flag and lead a march round the hall to songs of victory and praise . |
| 3 | So that if somebody come in to call , they 'd pull this thing and then Mr or somebody would open the the sliding door and you see . |
| 4 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 5 | Or one could regulate the output voltage in some way . |
| 6 | Or one could treat the hypothesis as a provisional truth-claim . |
| 7 | One can either see externalization as undoing this process and therefore no longer serving the ego in its defensive purpose , or one can see the psychotic remodelling of reality which occurs , for instance , in hallucination , as an all-too-successful externalization . |
| 8 | Or one can assess the earnings which are received by those involved in production , both wages and profits , interests and the like . |
| 9 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 10 | That 's definitely , this is the raw bit and that 's a bit of the end of the cut-off , probably have the landing or something can use the rest of it through |
| 11 | One comes out where one can get the best grip . |
| 12 | The best place to survey Cairo is from the top of the Cairo Tower where one can survey the whole teeming , colourful metropolis built upon the foundations of the legendary city of Babylon . |
| 13 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 14 | It seemed certain that nothing would alter the situation . |
| 15 | This assumption — that nothing would persuade the Chamberlain Government to make an alliance with the Soviet Union — was axiomatic on the left . |
| 16 | Impulsively , suddenly feeling that nothing could worsen the ruins of hir existence , Zambia opened the door and went in . |
| 17 | Just a short while ago she had thought that nothing could increase the feeling of dread that Andrew had left behind him in the drawing-room . |
| 18 | Now it appears that nothing can prevent the enthusiastic fossilisation of all that remains of the revolutionary structures of 1919–39 . |
| 19 | ‘ But such is the new-found and disturbing power of punk that nothing can stop the disc 's runaway success , ’ ranted the Sunday Mirror . |
| 20 | We wake in the night with a churning mind and it seems that nothing will settle the anxiety . |
| 21 | Although no-one can deny the impressive growth of small electronics firms that make , for instance , personal computers ( see ‘ The Great British Small Computer ’ , p 639 ) the consultants said the IT industry : • is unimaginative in designing new products • lacks marketing ability • has insufficient skills in distributing goods • does not sell enough overseas • lacks enough big companies with comprehensive product and marketing strategies . |
| 22 | Antoinette married Louis , Léonie explained : so that everyone would think the baby was his . |
| 23 | Sixty volunteers gave up their Saturday to act as guides so that everyone could tour the factory and be given explanations of the many processes involved . |
| 24 | The coffee thermos and cups were fetched , the incense came again but this time it was passed more slowly , so that everyone could enjoy the sweet-smelling smoke to a greater extent . |
| 25 | The underlying objective of the PMUG is to encourage the free flow of information between users so that everyone could get the best out of PageMaker . |
| 26 | The bodies would look sordid and ugly , dressed in old , rather soiled nightshirts and laid in open-topped coffins , slightly tilted so that everyone could see the contents . |
| 27 | This is not to say that everyone could name the book ( one chief adviser described it as ‘ the shiny red book which the drama adviser insisted I read ’ ) , nor in some instances was its actual existence known although its influence could be recognized . |
| 28 | God 's intention is that everyone should enjoy the birthright of assurance . |
| 29 | We broadly support the notion that everyone should enjoy the right of access to the countryside , although we also believe that with rights come responsibilities . |
| 30 | Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others . |