Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 2 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 3 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 4 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 5 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 6 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 7 | Do you think that this tragedy says anything about the problem of male violence towards women ? ’ |
| 8 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 9 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 10 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 11 | ‘ Great-gran knows nothing of the kind ; not how you bath her . |
| 12 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 13 | Waste paper is no longer generated by the ton and almost every home has one in the form of a television set — imagine the popularity of home computers if Teletypes were still used ! |
| 14 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 15 | It is admittedly relatively easy for a monist to show ( as Lodge does ) that even the best translation of a prose work loses something of the original . |
| 16 | Given the assertiveness and self-advertisement of modernization in Italian life across all forms of culture , from literature to political and social theory , during the 1960s and early 1970s , this return assumes something of the force of a revenge or , at any rate , a restitution . |
| 17 | Developed as a result of all the efforts being poured into the LCD screens for portable computers , the LCD tablet allows anything on the computer 's screen to be projected via an overhead projector onto a conventional screen . |
| 18 | Sovereignty says nothing about the state one lives in , whether it is a democracy or an autocracy , but it means constitutional independence . |
| 19 | There is a rebuttable presumption that the highway includes everything between the fence or boundary wall etc. , e.g. grass verges , footpaths and central reservations . |
| 20 | Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere . |
| 21 | And even if the driver sees something on the line ahead of him , he usually can not stop in time . |
| 22 | Her apparent cry of anguish last week that John Major has treated her legacy without due reverence is not convincing ; the old bat cares nothing for the well-being of the Conservative Party or indeed Conservative government . |
| 23 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 24 | And can he reveal whether the tendering process says anything about the level of profits being made by VSEL in the manufacturing and construction of Trident submarines ? |
| 25 | The second , call it " soft " conventionalism , insists that the law of a community includes everything within the implicit extension of these conventions . |
| 26 | Its ancestor , Legacy , seemed to me to be very slow and cumbersome , whereas this incarnation lacks nothing in the speed department . |
| 27 | This new band lacks nothing in the way of promotion . |
| 28 | Right well here are the phone calls , you 'll be interested in these , er Ann from Birmingham says , my husband pays nothing but the Child Support Agency did n't want to know . |
| 29 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 30 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |