Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
| 2 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 3 | From its foundation in 1855 , Hope had various professional journalists to assist him as joint editors , and its sharp , sardonic style of comment and outspokenness acquired for it the nickname ‘ The Saturday Reviler ’ . |
| 4 | Starlight and glow-worm light captured for me the simplicity of this joy . |
| 5 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 6 | Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions . |
| 7 | The Fat Controller forced upon me the conclusion that things were not at all as they seemed . |
| 8 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 9 | As the Padre began the baptism the cannons fired almost in unison from the other side of the hospital and a faint stirring of breeze brought with it the brimstone smell of burnt powder . |
| 10 | A relieved Russian establishment conferred upon him the title of ‘ the Blessed ’ . |
| 11 | I had no intention of giving trouble or offence to anyone , not me , but the case-officer discerned in me the potential for terrible trouble . |
| 12 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 13 | The slight tilt it always had now become a great lunge to one side , and as the mist moved against it the bin appeared to be moving the other way . |
| 14 | Success in any great enterprise brought with it the danger of complacency , the danger that the French would surrender to their demons of fragmentation and mediocrity . |
| 15 | The Commissioner discussed with me the statement you made to him , and we both feel that it may require action on a number of different fronts , and that it would , therefore , be helpful if our Police Liaison Group handled matters from the start . |
| 16 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 17 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 18 | Police never traced a scruffy looking man seen with her the day before she died . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 20 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |
| 21 | In other words , by insisting on the dominance of the ruling class in the last instance , Poulantzas 's approach retained within it the central tenet of all reductionist instrumental accounts : namely , the state must be functioning to defend and protect the interests of the dominant class all of the time . |
| 22 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 23 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 24 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 25 | This positive conviction carried with it the rejection of any attempt to compromise with other sources , authorities or norms , or to establish theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 26 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 27 | I did understand however that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of that nation of which the constitution is the organic law . |
| 28 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 29 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 30 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |