Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils are dissatisfied , and industry and commerce remain somewhat dismayed at the results from our schools . |
| 2 | Studies using those that do exist provide little support for the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 3 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 4 | The lofty official view is that the agitators in favour of an entirely fresh deal — or preferably none at all — with the CFTC command little support among the membership and distract the association from grappling with real issues such as Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's putative electronic trading system . |
| 5 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 6 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 7 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 8 | Meanwhile I 'm perfectly content just to lie in the sun by the peaceful ornamental pond . |
| 9 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 10 | In this one episode we find interconnections with race , class , colonialism , and ( cultural ) imperialism , and in ironic , domestic , tragically intricate ways : witness Gide finally capitulating to the class , racial , and cultural prejudices of his own culture , as voiced through his mother , who in turn speaks through her servant . |
| 11 | Here in Langdale an ewe stood weakly , blood still damp on its haunches as its offspring staggered in the shock of birth , cord still trailing in the grass . |
| 12 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |
| 13 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 14 | But despite such ribald repartee , The Joyriders appear calmly determined in the face of various , invariably logistical , hassles suffered by the handful of Scottish bands not currently claiming residence in Bellshill . |
| 15 | Unlike most GP stars , Bradl still rides on the road . |
| 16 | You say hopefully bang against the back wall , why 's that ? |
| 17 | Those of the arms are particularly interesting because the fists are either clenched or the fingers flattened thus the lines and shapes made only appear slightly rounded by the folds in the sleeves . |
| 18 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 19 | Our newsletter is not the first to be produced using desktop publishing methods , in the UK that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , a bi-monthly journal for authors and writers . |
| 20 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 21 | Having looked briefly at some features of particular NBFIs in section 4.1 , we want now to reflect on the extent to which they fulfil some of those functions which we said in section 2.3 a financial system is expected to fulfil . |
| 22 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 23 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 24 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 25 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 26 | and say well think of the conductance , do n't think of it as resisting and stopping the water , how much can it get along and get through ? |
| 27 | However , the thin cut of the marble shift here contrasts with the slightly thicker gauge of the shroud ; is the sculptor thus implying that the shift is of linen and the shroud of flannel ? |
| 28 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | With broken images showing hands and feet and faces , the whole is heavily varnished so the images appear almost sealed into the wood . |
| 30 | For all these variations , however , there persists in many localities a ‘ neighbourhood effect ’ whereby working class people appear consistently drawn towards the politics of the middle classes and employers of their area . |