Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is a bonus to that in that people hope that by testing their ideas about the uncertain physics , by building models of that early stage , that those models will have consequences for the things that get left behind in the universe for the present , and so they might be able to test their ideas about how matter behaves at very high density by using cosmology , and that 's very important because we have no other way of doing it . |
| 2 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 3 | You tend to withdraw into yourself if you feel got at by the world , especially if you have experienced a rejection in past months . |
| 4 | He spent a long time listening , and then said , ‘ You know , George Dionisovich , you 've fallen into to the hands of the Mafia . |
| 5 | But that 's the latest thing I 've heard of on the one anyway . |
| 6 | no tail oh dear oh dear but you see then of course and I was still not married but you see I , as I say , then I went to Cambridge and that 's when I met my husband and all his family were so kind to me , er he had erm two sisters living in a flat round the backs , you 've heard of round the backs |
| 7 | Erm coming in from er on the A six one two from , er we 've come to over the level crossing there . |
| 8 | Once again , good evening ladies and gentlemen , and once again I 'd like to offer an especially warm welcome to this centenary lecture to those of you who 've come from outside the university . |
| 9 | erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that |
| 10 | One of the problems that we 've suffered from in the past was some level of inconsistency which we 've now put to bed . |
| 11 | This is a great groove because you can superimpose the other stylistic feels we 've talked about over the groove . |
| 12 | Most of the schemes that are put in here are actually assessed by the area highway engineer and if you 've got particular schemes , especially ones that you know you 've talked about in the past , the best way of dealing with them is to speak to him directly and say , why is n't it in this time ? |
| 13 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 14 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 15 | And , we 've seen through their advertising in targeting women that they 've tried to post the image if you smoke , you 're more likely to be slim and slender . |
| 16 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 17 | What about up in the corner there there 's er Cos what we 've launched into in the last er nine months very heavily er |
| 18 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 19 | The above example may appear something of a curioso , but it illustrates another example of the distinction between what we have referred to as the ‘ traditional ’ approach and the public choice approach to public finance . |
| 20 | The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus . |
| 21 | Burton 's sexuality , which many have pointed to as the source of his power on stage and , at his best , on screen , became notorious in its more scandalous manifestation in his love for women . |
| 22 | Responsible party government and pluralism fitted some of the facts of British politics for some of the time , but they were always overoptimistic and crucially flawed in ways we have pointed to in the body of this chapter . |
| 23 | The concern of the writers that we have looked at in the preceding pages are with a number of organisational variables : |
| 24 | Most of the resources for this work have come from within the Division 's normal programme of research . |
| 25 | No club has a divine right to win the League year in , year out as the Glens and Blues have done down through the years . |
| 26 | Well I have done in in the past . |
| 27 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 28 | It is worth reflecting what a most remarkable contribution women have made to Save The Children throughout its seventy four years history . |
| 29 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 30 | ‘ Among those I have talked to over the past years , ’ he said , ‘ I have found none who believed that Libya alone paid for , planned and carried out the crime — exactly none . ’ |