Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If taken to extremes , such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation . |
| 2 | Similarly , via the intermediary of reflected light rays , interaction between the corpuscles of gold and those of our eyes produces in us the idea of yellowness . |
| 3 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 4 | ART is another innovation created by Jerry Turner 's continuing drive to integrate the three most important elements required by you the athlete : Motion control , Maximum Shock Absorption and Energy Return . |
| 5 | Official sympathy did not extend to pressure for constitutional change : ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats interpreted such pressure as the work of reactionary oligarchs , while most conservative officials saw behind it the machinations of radical members of the intelligentsia challenging the entire social structure . |
| 6 | Branson did not see Malcolm McLaren for another five months , by which time association with the Sex Pistols carried with it the whiff of high treason … |
| 7 | A group of senior Spencer Stuart consultants raised with him the possibility of a sale to the consulting staff instead . |
| 8 | Thus the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty is seen by Northern and Central Europeans as an earnest of the will and capacity of the West Europeans to extend to them the benefits of European Union . |
| 9 | one which does not exclude the bailor from possession , an action for conversion against a third person is maintainable by either bailor or bailee ; by the bailee because he is in possession , by the bailor because it is said that his title to the goods draws with it the right to possession , that the bailee is something like his servant and that the possession of the one is equivalent to that of the other . |
| 10 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 11 | In cases where we require the client to confirm in writing certain representations made to us the following letter may be used . |
| 12 | Traditionally at least , horns convey to us the notion of the cuckold — the unfortunate , unmanly husband whose wife 's unsated sexual passion finds its outlets elsewhere . |
| 13 | An hour later , Joffre 's second-in-command , General de Castelnau , arrived with three other generals to impress upon him the urgency of the situation at Verdun . |
| 14 | Virtually every plant that has grey leaves will press well ( apart from the ones that are too fat in the leaf ) , so you will have to decide which shapes and shades appeal to you the most . |
| 15 | The Dwarfs continue to mine the vein for several years and even talk of resettling the old hold . |
| 16 | 4.24 Sometimes employments or occupations carry with them the enjoyment of material benefits other than monetary remuneration — for example , free board and lodging in the case of a domestic servant ( Liffen v Watson [ 1940 ] 1 KB 556 ) , free coal for a miner , free or concessionary travel facilities for railway or airline employees , free farm produce for agricultural workers or the free use of a car for travelling salesmen , etc . |
| 17 | This means , in effect , that each Alu sequence that inserts itself into the chromosomes carries with it the means to get out again and reinsert itself somewhere else . |
| 18 | This , a piece whose mellow , introverted character has led many commentators to see in it the hand of a composer approaching the end of his life , was the work with which Mozart made his last public appearance , in March at a benefit concert for a clarinettist friend . |
| 19 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 20 | Counsel for the estate agents assigned to it the meaning , ‘ rent agreed between the parties ’ at the time of entering the lease . |
| 21 | Chiang happens to have under her pillow a large red flag , and the five women embroider on it the five stars of the republic , meanwhile singing a song of praise . |
| 22 | While Biedermann and Baur were in accord with Hegel 's aim to combine Christianity and speculative philosophy , others drew from him the material for frontal attacks on Christian belief , notably Strauss , Feuerbach and Marx . |
| 23 | The more the boys looked at him the more they realised the man was totally oblivious of his surroundings . |
| 24 | He may have a brief with correspondence numbering two or three hundred letters delivered to him the night , or two nights , before the case begins , and all the facts must be mastered before he goes into court . |
| 25 | There was a general view that all women held within them the potential to become hysterical ; from ‘ nervous ’ to ‘ hysteric ’ to insane was a sliding scale , and all women were positioned somewhere upon it . |
| 26 | That morning there had been a renewed run on the Bank , and he asked his colleagues to share with him the burdens both of office and self-sacrifice . |