Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any claim to direct acquaintance with God through immediate religious experience has to explain what the experience is experience of Ayer makes this point in discussing what he calls ‘ mysticism ’ . |
| 2 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |
| 3 | My mind wants to know what the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue has got to do with the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 4 | ‘ The industry wants to know what the hell is going on . ’ |
| 5 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 6 | Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] . |
| 7 | The city council planned to call it the ‘ Queen Elizabeth Bridge ’ but the more assertive Protestants wanted a memorial to Lord Carson . |
| 8 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 9 | But it 's written for the non-microprocessor specialist to try to show him the way to erm exploit these things . |
| 10 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 11 | If a giant has come to town the children will allow you to have your council meeting to discuss what the townspeople should do about it , but what they really want to do and what they will learn most from is dealing with the giant . |
| 12 | A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved . |
| 13 | A lady comes to see what the noise is all about . |
| 14 | The expert refused to do what the lessors wanted him to do , namely to rewrite his certificate in a way which he thought would make the certificate conclusive against the lessees ' interests . |
| 15 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 16 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is of some importance to try to establish what the effect of this learning environment is on the actual communication between deaf and hearing people . |
| 18 | Within a week he was a member , within a fortnight he 'd come out at home and within three weeks his father was at the CHE group wanting to know what the hell was going on . |
| 19 | Then our dance teacher began to teach us the basic steps . |
| 20 | The Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) did not co-operate because the assembly failed to offer them the opportunity of power-sharing which they gained in 1973 . |
| 21 | The therapist needs to know what the main problems are , what caused them , what maintains them , and what possibilities there are for change . |
| 22 | owing to the difficulty of forecasting [ … ] the less possible , and indeed , the less desirable it is for the person purchasing to specify what the other contracting party is expected to do [ … |
| 23 | That 's it and let them , let them get on with it in the middle of bloody summer with a pint of water and say , look , that pint of water has to last you the day . |
| 24 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 25 | ‘ Nobody who spends £500 on a jacket wants to discard it the following year , ’ he believes , insisting that no Armani design dates before it dies of old age . |
| 26 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 27 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 28 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 29 | The King wanted to know what the gun was used for . |
| 30 | THE world 's stock exchanges had a turbulent week as politics and economics conspired to give them the jitters . |